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Office: Guilford 307
216-368-2234
email: pjy2@case.edu
Peter J. Yang (PhD, Utah) is an Associate Professor of German,
Chinese and Comparative Literature at Case Western Reserve
University, where he teaches and serves in the Department of Modern
Languages and Literatures. He assumed this position following four
years as German translator at the Central Translating and Editing
Office in Beijing, seven years as a researcher at the Chinese
Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade, in the Chinese
Trade Office in Austria, and two years as Director of the Language
Laboratory at University of Richmond.
His publications include books, translated and edited volumes,
chapters in books, articles, and reviews in Germanics, language
teaching and technology, economics, and social sciences. His most
recent books include Theater ist Theater [add an underline] on
theatricality in the chalk-circle plays by Bertolt Brecht and Li
Xingdao [Peter Lang, 1998] and Play is Play [add an underline] on the
Swiss playwright Max Frisch's The Great Wall [University Press of
America, 2000]. Currently, he is working on book projects in 20th
Century German Theatrical Masterpieces and Inside China's Economic
Reform. He has received a number of grants and awards, including a
Provost Opportunity Grant ($260,000). He serves on the Modern
Language Association Committee on Information Technology.
This year, Professor Yang is teaching the Munich Experience, GRMN
208/308
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