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Palumbo-Liu CV 10 2014 Copy DAVID PALUMBO-LIU Department of Comparative Literature Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-2031 department: (650) 723-3566 fax: (650) 725-4090 private: (650) 725-4915 e-mail: [email protected] for more information, see: www.palumbo-liu.com Academic Positions 2012- Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor Professor of Comparative Literature and, by courtesy, English, Stanford University. 2001-2012 Professor of Comparative Literature, and, by courtesy, English. 1995-2001 Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University. 1994-95 Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center. 1990-94 Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, Stanford University. 1988-90 Assistant Professor, English and the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. 1985-86 Research Fellow, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University; affiliated with the Research Institute for Humanistic Studies (Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies). Honors Nominated Finalist, Endowed Flexner Lectureship, Bryn Mawr 2008 Offered Jackman Chair in Arts and Humanities, University of Toronto 2007 Administrative Positions 2012- Director, Undergraduate Program in Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity 2009-13 Director, Department of Comparative Literature 2009-13 Director, Asian American Studies Program 2009- Executive Committee, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity 2009- Executive Committee, Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages 1999-2005- Director of the Program in Modern Thought & Literature, Stanford University 1999-2005, Director, Asian American Studies Program 2006-2007 Director, Program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity 2005-2006 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Comparative Literature Education 1988 BA, MA, Ph.D., Comparative Literature (Chinese, French, English), University of California, Berkeley Areas of Interest Asian and Asian Pacific American studies; race, migrancy and ethnicity; cultural studies; comparative literatures; literary theory and criticism; social theory; local/global issues. Publications Books The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age (Duke University Press, 2011) is a reappraisal of the idea that narrative literature can expand readers’ empathy. What happens if, amid the voluminous influx of otherness facilitated by globalization, we continue the tradition of valorizing literature for bringing the lives of others to us, admitting them into our world and valuing the difference that they introduce into our lives? In this new historical situation, are we not forced to determine how much otherness is acceptable, as opposed how much is excessive, disruptive, and disturbing? Ian Baucom writes, “Certain to be an important and influential book, The Deliverance of Others examines the profound challenges that the ‘contemporary’ historical moment poses to literary novel writing in the early twenty-first century, when the fine line between a ‘sufficient’ and an ‘excessive’ measure of otherness seems to have been trespassed, when, as Palumbo-Liu puts it in his extraordinary reading of J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello, readers of the novel are asked to imagine themselves confronting ‘tidal wave of difference’ that exceeds the specific 2 capacities of realist form and the more general compact that literary writing offers to strike between historical conditions and the liberal, sympathetic imagination.” Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier (Stanford University Press, 1999, in second printing) is a comprehesive interdisciplinary study of the nexus between Asia and America, and the production of “Asian America” in modernity. Awarded the distinction of "Choice Outstanding Academic Book Title,” this book sees the modern identity of America as inseparable from its notion of a Pacific Destiny. It focuses on the production of the identity "Asian/American," arguing that the "proximity" of Asian Americans to that ideal of "American" should be read as a history of persistent reconfigurations and transgressions of the Asian/American "split," designated by a solidus that signals those instances in which a liaison between "Asian" and "American," a sliding over between two seemingly separate terms, is constituted. Reviewed in Amerasia Journal; American Journal of Sociology; Choice [Choice Outstanding Academic Title]; Critique internationale; Journal of Asian Studies; Library Journal; American Quarterly, American Historical Review; Journal of Asian American Studies; Journal of Social History; Comparative Literature Studies; Pacific Historical Review; New Centennial Review. For excerpts from reviews see: http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=3444%203445%20. The Poetics of Appropriation: The Literary Theory and Practice of Huang Tingjian (1045-1105). Stanford University Press, 1993. This book addresses the notion of authorship and poetic language in Song dynasty China, taking as its focal point the work of Huang Tingjian, one of the most difficult poets in the Chinese tradition because of his dense use of recondite allusions. This study argued that the poetry of citation was completely in line with the Song project to reassess and classify all prior knowledge, and to invent a distinct cultural identity from those discourses. This book begins and ends with chapters that compare the seemingly contradictory elements of learning and spontaneity, and their relation to textuality, to similar discussions in western poetics. Edited Volumes Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture (Duke University Press, 2010). Co-edited with Bruce Robbins and Nirvana Tanoukhi. A distinguished group of scholars from the fields of history, sociology, geography, law and literature—including Franco Moretti, Neil Brenner, Kären Wigen, Helen Stacey, and Immanuel Wallerstein--each speak to how world-systems analysis might be adapted to world-scale cultural studies. Reviewing this volume, Etienne Balibar writes, “As the current crisis of financial markets displays both its high level of economic uncertainty and its devastating geopolitical consequences—with East and West, North and South progressively trading their places—the prescience of Wallerstein’s world-systems analysis appears admirable. But the authors of this book also demonstrate that it potentially affects the basic time-space determinants of every cultural critique. A timely and fruitful contribution.” Streams of Cultural Capital: Transnational Cultural Studies. Co-edited with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. Stanford University Press, 1997. My introductory essay explores how Bourdieu's 3 concept, while demonstrating the social function of "culture," is hard-pressed to address transnational cultural movements, which engage a wide variety of agents and media. The essays, from around the globe, analyze discrete cases of transnational movements and refigurations, recombinations, and reterritorializations of cultural objects. Broadly addressed to the notion of "global culture," this anthology argues instead that we attend to the local manifestations of transnational flows of culture. Essays by Arjun Appadurai, Chen Xiaomei, Biodun Jeyifo, Bruce and Judith Kapferer, Anne Knudsen, Mary Layoun, Jean-François Lyotard, Carlos Rincón, Robert Weimann, and others. The Ethnic Canon: Histories, Institutions, Interventions. University of Minnesota Press, 1995. In my critical introduction, I address the historical occasion of multiculturalism and charts the various functions and histories of the institutionalization of ethnic literature in the U.S. academy. The anthology itself, with essays by Norma Alarcòn, Rosaura Sanchez, Ramòn Saldìvar, Sau-ling Wong, Lisa Lowe, Colleen Lye, E. San Juan, Jr., Elliott Butler-Evans, Barbara Christian, Paula Gunn Allen, and Jana Sequoya-Magdelena, argues for a contestative and critical multicultural pedagogy. Electronic Journal Founder and editor of Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities. http://arcade.stanford.edu/journals/occasion/ First issue, “Rational Choice Theory and the Humanities.” Contributions from Kenneth Arrow, Jon Elster, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Regenia Gagnier, John Dupré, Alan Liu, David Kreps, Gayatri Charkravorty Spivak and others. Second issue, “States of Welfare,” with contributions from Lauren Goodlad, Christopher Newfield, David Lloyd, Bruce Robbins. Occasion #3 is on “Intellectuals and the State” (Antonis Balasopoulos, Nefterti Tadiar, Ashis Nandy, Alberto Toscano, Gopal Balakrishnan); issue #4 is “Ageing and Aesthetics” (eds. Linda and Michael Hutcheon, Marlene Goldman, others). Issue #5 is on Comparative Wests, Issue #6 on Restructuring the Humanities, #7 On Debt. For Blogs—see Public Lectures, Media Interviews, Blogs section below Articles r=refereed journals 2012 “Thinking Big” in David B. Grusky, Rob Reich, Debra Satz, Doug McAdam eds., Occupy the Future (a Boston Review book). (MIT Press), 222-232. 2011: “Pre-emption, the Future, the Imagination,” in Giles Gunn and Carl Gutierrez-Jones eds., America and the Misshaping of a New World Order. University of California Press. “Method and Congruity.” Blackwell Companion to Comparative Literature. Eds. Ali Behdad and Dominic Thomas. 2010 “Teaching the Canon.” World Policy Journal. 27.3 (Fall 2010): 11-14. 4 2008 “Modernisms, Pacific and Otherwise.” In Mary Ann Gillies, Helen Sword, and Steven Yao eds., Pacific Rim Modernisms. University of Toronto Press, 34-52. “Rationality, Realism and the Poetics of Otherness: Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello.” In Mary Gallagher ed., World Writing: Poetics, Ethics and Globalization.
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