Educational Experience

B. A. in Philosophy, Peking University

M. A. and Ph. D. in Italian Studies, Brown University

Work Experience

2014-2016: Teaching Assitant, Dep. of Italian Studies, Brown University

2016-2017: Graduate Fellow, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University

2019-2021: Post-doctoral Fellow, School of Foreign Languages, Peking University

2022-: Assistant Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Peking University

Research Interests

A student of early Italian vernacular literature, Wuming Chang currently works on Dante’s relationship to such vernacular and Latin traditions as volgarizzamento, the poetic and rhetorical arts, and the political discourse of his time.  He is also translating some of Ovid’s didactic poetry (Medicamina, Remedia).

Teaching Courses

Italian IV; Italian Literature Survey I & II; Dante’s ‘Commedia’ I: ‘Inferno’ and ‘Purgatorio’; II: ‘Paradiso’; Ovid’s Erotodidactic Poetry; Academic Writing; Introduction to Italian History and Culture I & II

Research Projects

-Member of the Chinese National Social Sciences Significant Project “Ovid’s Complete Works: Translation and Commentary” (2019-)

-“Dante’s Complete Works in Latin: Translation and Commentary” (Peking University Classics Grant)