Lionel S. Fothergill, Dr.
- Postdoc / Teaching and Research Assistant Chinese Studies
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| 02/2020 – 01/2024 | University of Zurich | Zurich, Switzerland PhD: Sinology Supervisor: Andrea Riemenschnitter, Prof. Thesis Title: Transmedial Resemantisations – Myths of the Four Great Novels (Si Da Mingzhu) of Imperial China in Contemporary Culture |
| 09/2013 – 12/2016 | Nankai University | Tianjin, China MA: Ancient Chinese Literature (古典文學), Ming-Qing Novels (明清小說方向) Supervisor: Chen Hong (陳洪), Prof. (教授，博士導师) Thesis Title: 電視連續劇對《水滸傳》的奇幻情節的接受與改造——以魯智深及神話框架為例 (Reception and Transformation in TV Series of Fantastic Story Elements in the Shuihu zhuan: Lu Zhishen and the Mythological Frame) |
| 09/2012 – 08/2013 | Nankai University | Tianjin, China General studies during exchange year |
| 09/2008 – 08/2012 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg | Heidelberg, Germany BA: East Asian Studies (Focus China) + Psychology as minor Supervisors: Gotelind Mueller-Saini, Prof. Dr.; Ylva Mondschein, Dr. Thesis Title: Das Shuihu zhuan im Fernsehen - Über die Rezeption mythologischer Elemente des Shuihu zhuan in Fernsehserien (Shuihu zhuan on Television: Reception of Mythological Elements from the Shuihu zhuan in Television Series) |
| Spring semester 2024 | MA-Seminar Sprache, Literatur, Medien: Classics on Television – Reassembling Our Stories |
| Spring semester 2024 | Angeleitetes Quellenstudium (Sprache, Literatur, Medien) (MA): Reading Texts Across Media |
| Spring semester 2022 | Chinesische Literatur (Vertiefung): Chinesische Fernsehserien |
| 09/2017 – 01/2020 | Lecturer | Qiusuo Honors College, Tianjin Foreign Studies University, Tianjin, China Oral English, English Essay Writing and BA thesis supervision and examination |
Cultural tradition; modern mythology; cultural and ideological control; national identity; transmediality
Fothergill, Lionel Sven; Riemenschnitter, Andrea (2021). The Bandit Who Lost His Zen.Transmedial Resemanticizations of Lu Zhishen in TV Drama. In: Noesselt, Nele. Visualized Narratives : Signs, Symbols and Political Mythology in East Asia, Europe and the US. Baden: Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag, 55–70.
| 2021 | Grant for self-organized lecture series 2022–23 “Other Epistemologies: Remapping the Literary Field in the Sinosphere” from the PhF Graduate School, University of Zurich |
| 04/2020 – 08/2023 | Swiss National Science Foundation project grant |
| 2013–2016 | Chinese Government Scholarship, full scholarship for Masters studies |
| 2012 | Exchange scholarship, Heidelberg & Nankai Universities |
| 2010 | Outstanding Student Award, College of Chinese Language and Culture, Nankai University |
| 2009 | Exchange scholarship, Heidelberg & Nankai Universities |