Professor Tan Haozhe, who hails from Qixiaxian, Shandong Province, was born on December 1, 1955. After graduating with his baccalaureate degree from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Shandong University in January 1982, he stayed on as a member of the teaching staff at Shandong University and has been here since that time. In 1987 and 2001 respectively, he obtained an MA and his PhD in the area of Literature and Art from Shandong University. In 1994, he was promoted to the rank of Professor through exemption from normal procedures and criteria. In 1997, he was made a Dissertation Advisor for PhD students in the area of Literature and Art. In 2001, he became a Key-positionProfessor by university-level appointment at Shandong University. Since 2008, he has been appointed as a Tier-2Professor at Shandong University.
Starting in 1994, Professor Tan served as Associate Chair of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature and Associate Dean of the School of Liberal Arts at Shandong University. From 1999 to 2003, he served as Dean of the School of Liberal Arts/School of Literature and Journalism, and from 2004 to 2012, he served as Associate Dean of the Graduate School of the University. Currently, Professor Tan serves as Director of the Research Center for Literary and Artistic Aesthetics of Shandong University, a Key Research Base in the Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, and as also Academic Leader and Faculty-in-Charge in the Discipline of Literature and Art of Shandong University, recognized as a Key Academic Field at the National level. In addition to his academic positions at Shandong University, Professor Tan also serves asVice President of the Shandong Writers Association, Vice President of the National Association for Research in Marxist Literary Theory,as well as a Director on the Standing Committee for both the Chinese Association of Literary Theory and the Chinese Association for the Study of Chinese and Western Theories in Literature and Art. He is also a Director of the Chinese Association of Aesthetics and President of the Shandong Association of Comparative Literary Studies.
Professor Tan’s primary research interests are Marxist theory in literature and art, and literary aesthetics. He has authored, edited (as chief editor) and/or co-authored more than a dozen volumes, including: Literature and Ideology,Contextual Awareness and the Question of Aesthetics, Art and Human Liberation, A Study of the Fundamental Issues of Literary Aesthetics From the Perspective of Modern Times, Modernity and Nationality, and The Significance of Aesthetic Education. Professor Tan has also authored and published more than two hundred papers and articles in important Chinese academic journals and periodicals such as Literary Review and Literature and Art Studies. For his monograph Literature and Art and Ideologyhe received a Level-2 Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities and Social Sciences from the Ministry of Education in the third year of the award, and for his paper “Boundaries, Problems and Methods in the Study of Marxist Literary Theory” he was awarded a Level-3 Prize in the same category in the seventh year of this Ministry of Education award.In addition, Professor Tan has won more than a dozen provincial-level awards and prizes, including four Level-1 Prizes and several Level-2 and Level-3 Prizes for Outstanding Achievement in the Social Sciences in Shandong, a Level-1 Taishan Literary Criticism Award in Shandong Province, as well as Shandong Province’s Liu Xie Prize for Literary Criticism.
In 1998, Professor Tan was granted special subsidy by the State Council. He was named as 2005 Young/Middle-aged Expert with Outstanding Contribution to Shandong Province. In 2006, he was awarded special recognition as one of the Most Outstanding Mentors of Graduate Students in Shandong in the inaugural year of the award. In 2014, Professor Tan was selected as a member of the first group of “Most Notable Cultural Figures of Qilu.” He was selected to serve as an Expert Author for Literary Theory and Marxist Theory in Literature and Art, two textbooks in the National Project of Marxist Theory Research and Construction implemented by the Central Government of China. He has served on the Panel of Expert Reviewers for the Ministry of Education’s Prizes for Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities and Social Sciences in China’s Institutions of Higher Education (in the second year of the awards,) and as a member of the Judges Panel for the Prizes for Outstanding Work in Theory and Outstanding Work in Literary Criticism in the Third Annual National Lu Xun Literature Awards of the Chinese Writers Association.
Contact information:
Telephone: 0531-88364252
E-mail address: thzh@sdu.edu.cn
Mailing Address: School of Literature, Shandong University, 27 Shanda South Road, Jinan City, Shandong Province, China Post Code: 250100