桑塔格研究“新浪潮”中的特点与走向——芭芭拉·秦访谈录

On the Features and Trends in the New Wave of Studies on Sontag: An Interview with Barbara Ching

芭芭拉·秦教授是桑塔格研究领域的顶尖学者之一,撰有百科全书《美国国家传记》之"苏珊·桑塔格传记",合著《苏珊·桑塔格的争议:公共事务和私人生活》等。近期,在中国开展系列学术讲座的秦教授接受了中国学者的采访,访谈内容涉及当前桑塔格研究中的新媒介档案、玩家艺术、数字文本分析等,清楚展示了桑塔格研究由传统理解模式向创意实践模式再到数字人文模式等逐渐丰富和深化的特点和趋势。此外,秦教授还谈及新的研究策略和模式如何正在改变和丰富学界关于桑塔格其人其作的理解和见解。

Barbara Ching,the author of the encyclopedia entry on Susan Sontag in American National Biography( 2015) and the co-editor,with Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor,of The Scandal of Susan Sontag: Public and Private Affairs( 2009),is one of the top scholars in the field of Sontag Studies. During her lecture tour in China,Prof. Ching was interviewed by the Chinese Scholar about the new media archives,fan art and digital textual analysis,which clearly show the Sontag studies gradually enrich and deepen from traditional understanding modes to creative practical modes and to digital humanities modes. Prof. Ching also discussed how these new approaches and modes have been changing or amplifying the understanding and arguments on Sontag and her works.