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.

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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. University of Toronto Press, 190-206.

“The Occupation of Form: Retheorizing Literary History,” in American Literary History 20.4 (Winter): 836-844.

2007 “Blood, Visuality, and the New Multiculturalism.” In Linda Calendrillo et al eds, Ways of Seeing, Ways of Speaking: The Integration of Rhetoric and Vision in Constructing the Real. Parlor Press, 203-224.

“Re-territorializing Asia Pacific: The Post September 11th Logic of Hegemony,” in Rob Wilson and Christopher Leigh Connery eds., The Worlding Project: Doing Cultural Studies in the Era of Globalization. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 187-204.

"Atlantic to Pacific: James, Blackmur, Todorov and Intercontinental Form." In Wai Chee Dimock and Lawrence Buell, eds. Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature. Princeton University Press, 196-226.

2006 “Pre-emption, Perpetual War, and the Future of the Imagination,” boundary 2 33:1 (Spring): 151-70.

2005 “Rational and Irrational: Narrative in an Age of Globalization.” In Minor Transnationalisms eds., Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih. Duke University Press.

2003 “Hybridities and Histories: Imaging the Pacific Rim.” In Michael Dear ed., Postborder City: Cultural Spaces of Bajalta California. Routledge.

"The Morality of Form, or What's So Bad About 'Bad Writing'?" in Jonathan Culler ed., Just Being Difficult?: Academic Writing in the Public Arena Stanford University Press, pp. 171-80.

2001 “Multiculturalism Now: Civilization, National Identity, and Difference Before and After September 11th. ” boundary 2 29:2 (summer 2002): 109-128. (r)

“The Operative Heart: On Jean-Luc Nancy’s L’intrus” The New Centennial Review 2:3 (fall 2002): 87-108.

2001 “Against Race: Yes, But At What Cost?” Essay/review of Paul Gilroy's Against Race: for Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 23: 1 (Spring 2001): 1-22.

"Modelling the Nation: the Asian/American Split." In K. Chuh and K. Shimakawa eds., Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora. Duke University Press, 213-227.

5 “Literary Studies, Multiculturalism, and Corporate Practicality.” In Gumbrecht and Moser eds., The Future of Literary Studies (Edmonton: Canadian Comparative Literature Association Press, 2001), 56-60.

2000 "Fables and Apedagogy: Lyotard’s Relevance for a Pedagogy of the Other." In Pradeep Dhillon and Paul Standish eds., Lyotard: Just Education. Routledge, pp. 194-214.

“Assumed Identities.” New Literary History 31:4, pp. 765-780.

1999 "Awful Patriotism: The Politics of Knowing." (Critical essay on Richard Rorty's Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America) diacritics (29:1): 37- 56.

1997 “Unhabituated Habituses,” in Palumbo-Liu and Gumbrecht eds., Streams of Cultural Capital, pp. 1-21.

1996 “Historical Permutations of the Place of Race.” PMLA 111:5 (October 1996) Guest column, pp. 1075-78.

1995 “The Bitter Tea of Frank Capra: Hybridity and Modern Asian America.” positions: east asia culture critique. 3:3 (Winter 1995): 759-789. (r)

"The Politics of Memory: Remembering History in Kogawa and Walker," in Amrijit Singh and Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr. eds., Memory and Cultural Politics : New Essays in Ethnic American Literatures. Northwestern University Press, pp. 211-226.

“Critical Introduction” for The Ethnic Canon: Histories, Institutions, Interventions. University of Minnesota Press, pp. 1-30.

“On the Subject of Asian American Studies: Theorizing Asian American Studies.” Amerasia Journal 21: 1&2: 55-66. (r)

“Universalisms and Minority Cultures.” differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies 7:1: 188-208. (r)

“Terms of (In)difference: Cosmopolitanism, Cultural Politics, and the Future of Literary Studies.” (Translated into Portuguese in Cadernos do Mestrado/Literatura, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro). 2:14: 46-62.

“The Ethnic as ‘Post-’: Reading Reading the Literatures of Asian America.” (review essay) American Literary History. 7:1: 160-68. (r)

1994 “Can Academics Teach Public Culture?” (essay review of Stanley Aronowitz, Roll Over Beethoven: The Return of Cultural Strife) Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies 16:2: 163-70.

"Representing the Other as Self: Problematics of Self-Representation in Asian-American Literature." Cultural Critique 28: 75-102. (r)

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“LA, Asians, and Perverse Ventriloquisms: On the Functions of Asian America in the Recent American Imaginary.” Public Culture 6:2 (Winter): 365-85. (r)

1993 “Cultural Capital in a Transcultural/Late Capitalist Age?” introduction to “Streams of Cultural Capital,” special issue of Stanford Literature Review 10.1-2 (Spring-Fall): 1-10.

“The Utopias of Discourse: On the Impossibility of Chinese Comparative Literature.” CLEAR: Chinese Literature--Essays, Articles, Reviews, volume 14: 165-77.(r)

“Schrift und kulterelles Potential in China.” [Writing and the Possibilities of Culture in Medieval China] , in Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and K. Ludwig Pfeiffer eds, Schrift (Fink Verlag), 159-69.

1991 “Toshio Mori and the Attachments of Spirit.” Amerasia Journal 17:3: 41-49.(r)

1990 "Discourse and Dislocation: The Rhetorical Strategies of Displacement." LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 2:1: 1-8.(r)

1984 "Towards a Poetics of Chinese Narrative: History/Rhetoric/Narrative." Proceedings of the Tenth Triennial Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association 1982, Volume 2: Comparative Poetics, ed. Claudio Guillén (New York: Garland Press), 632-636.

"Some Observations on Huang Tingjian's Poetics." Phi Theta Papers 16: 137-63. A publication of the Oriental Languages Department, University of California, Berkeley.

1983 "Parallelism in the Chinese Canon of Poetry: The Shih Ching," Poetics Today 4:4: 639- 653.(r)

1981 "Report on the Conference on Critical Approaches to the Modern Chinese Short Story, East/West Center," Modern Chinese Literature 7:1-2.

"Chinese `Symbolist` Verse of the 1920s: Li Chin-fa and Mu Mu-t'ien." Tamkang Review 12:1: 27-53.(r)

1980 "The Chih yan chai Commentary in the Perspective of Recent Western Theories of Literature." Tamkang Review 10: 3, 4: 471-493.(r)

Reviews

2000 Review of David Leiwei Li, Imagining the Nation, in Studies in the Novel.

1998 Review of Lisa Lowe, Immigrant Acts, in Amerasia Journal (24:2): 183-85.

Review of Lisa Lowe, Immigrant Acts, in Journal of Asian Studies (58:3): 810-12.

(these are two separate reviews of Lowe’s book solicited by these journals for their

7 respective readerships).

1990 Extrême Orient/Extrême Occident in Literary Research/Récherche littéraire (Journal of the International Comparative Literature Association): 14-15.

1989 James J.Y. Liu, Language-Paradox-Poetics: A Chinese Perspective. Journal of Asian Studies 48:4: 832-33.

1978 Michelle Loi, "Poésie et politique en chine." Modern Chinese Literature Newsletter 4.1: 5-9.

Translations

1993 Jean-François Lyotard, “Marie à Narita.” Stanford Literature Review 10.1-2 (Spring-Fall): 35-42. Rpt. in Palumbo-Liu and Gumbrecht eds., Streams of Cultural Capital, Stanford University Press, 1997.

1983 Chi Chun, "Ah-yü." The Chinese P.E.N. Summer, 57-85.

Select Papers and Lectures

“A New Vocabulary for a New Age: An Argument for a Counter-morality.” University of Manitoba. October 1-4, 2014 (invited).

“The Humanities in a Time of Economic Crisis.” University of the Pacific (invited keynote). May 2014.

“Learning to Listen: Achebe as a Teacher.” Fifth Annual International Achebe Conference (invited by the Achebe family). May 2014.

“Bones: Forensics and Memory.” Association for Asian American Studies. San Francisco, April 2014.

“Justice in a Post-Racial World.” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. March 2014 (invited).

“Justice in a Post-Racial World.” Southern Methodist University, Dallas, February 2014 (invited).

“All That is Solid Melts into Air (Again).” Modern Language Association conference, Chicago, January 2014.

“Justice in a Post-Racial World.” University of Alberta, December 2013 (invited).

“Debt: An Argument for a Counter-morality.” American Studies Association, Washington DC, December 2013.

8 “Justice in a Post-Racial World.” Invited talk in honor of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Eichmann in Jerusalem. Wesleyan Humanities Center. November, 2013.

Workshop on Ethnicity, Migration, Human Rights, Harvard University, Radcliffe Center. Invited participant. October 2013.

Workshop on Human Rights with Justice Albie Sachs and Professor Timothy Stanton. Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Stanford University. June 27, 2013 (invited).

“Moving the Center.” Invited keynote address, American Comparative Literature Association conference, Toronto, April 6, 2013.

“Global, Positioning, System: Locating Ethnicity in the World.” Invited keynote address, MELUS Conference, Pittsburgh, March 15, 2013.

“What is ‘New’ About the ‘New Public Intellectual’?” Seminar on The New Public Intellectual, sponsored by the Society for Critical Exchange, Houston February 7, 2013 (invited).

“Conscience and Reportage” panel with Dr. Sheri Fink and Prof. Colin Dayan. Stanford Interdisciplinary Conference on Conscience, November 9, 2012 (invited).

“On the ‘Failures’ of Multiculturalism— Thinking the Long Historical Arc.” Talk given on panel convened with Etienne Balibar, Fatima El-Tayeb, and Paul Gilroy at Cultural Studies “Crossroads” conference, UNESCO, Paris. July 2012.

Panelist, “Rethinking ‘Asia’ in Asian/American Studies.” Association for Asian American Studies annual conference, Washington DC. April 2012. Invited.

Invited respondent to Immanuel Wallerstein, lecture for the “Emerging Worlds” series, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, May 15, 2012.

Invited respondent to Saskia Sassen, the Europe Center, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford. May 2, 2012.

“The Odious Business of Comparative Literature.” Conference on Comparative Literature and the Unworlding of the Human Sciences.” Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco. March 12-15, 2012 (invited).

Panel discussion with Grace Lee Boggs and Scott Kurashige on “The Next American Revolution.” March 1, 2012.

“Method and Congruity” (invited). Conference on Comparative Literature. University of Chicago. April 2011.

“Literary Value in a Global Age.” Invited lecture, Brasenose College, University of Oxford. December 29, 2011.

9 Invited lecture on “Facts, Truth and Indecidability.” Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, November 17, 2011.

Invited lecture, “The Odious Business of Comparative Literature.” Wadham College, University of Oxford, November 3, 2011.

“The House of Fiction, the House of History.” (invited) Presidential Forum, Modern Languages Assn convention, Los Angeles, January 2011. (Talk published in Profession 2011 pp. 13-22.

“Aesthetic Education in an Age of Globalization.” Roundtable discussion with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Ramon Saldivar. Stanford University, February 2010. Audio: http://arcade.stanford.edu/gayatri-chakravorty-spivak-david-palumbo-liu-ram%C3%B3n- sald%C3%ADvar-aesthetic-education-age-of-globalization.

“Rationality and Others.” (Invited) Mellon Lecture, UCLA May 2009.

“National, Inter-National, Planetary: American Studies Meets Comparative Literature.” American Studies Association. Albuquerque, NM. October 2008.

"The Occupation of Form: Retheorizing Literary History." Lecture for the Twentieth Anniversary of American Literary History. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. March 2008.

Invited lecture on globalization, otherness, and literature for "The State of the Profession" colloquium, Department of English, University of Colorado, Boulder, February 2008. Videorecording at:

http://www.colorado.edu/English/state/video/SOP3c.htm

“Rationality and World-Systems.” Invited lecture, Global Fellows Institute, UCLA June 1, 2006.

“Race, Modernity, America.” Invited keynote speech, Dartmouth College, May 7, 2006.

“Atlantic to Pacific: Intercontinental Form and Social Space.” Invited lecture, University of Toronto, March 27, 2006.

“Blood, Visuality, and the New Multiculturalism.” Invited lecture, Columbia University. March 20, 2006.

“2046 and the Occupation of History.” Invited lecture, University of Toronto. November 2005

“Toward the Common Good (?)” Confronting Katrina: Race, Class and Disaster in American Society. Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford. November 2005. Audio available at www.itunes.stanford.edu, faculty lectures, Katrina lecture number 2.

“Literary, Spatial and Social Form in Blackmur and James.” American Studies Association. November 2005.

10 “Wallerstein, Fanon, and the Politics of Rationality.” Stanford Humanities Center 25th Anniversary Conference on Knowledge and Belief. October 2005.

“Race. Modernity and America.” Amherst College invited lecture. September 2005.

“The Ethical Basis of World Systems Analysis.” World Scale Ambitions Conference. Stanford April 2005.

“Pre-emption, Perpetual War, and the Future of the Imagination.” Conference on America and the Reshaping of a New World Order. University of California, Santa Barbara, April 2004.

Keynote Speaker, “On Borders and Fences, New and Old Worlds. Annual conference of MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States). San Antonio, March 2004; Mapping Migrations Conference, Transnational and Transcolonial Multicampus Research Group, UCLA May 7, 2004.

Annual Critical Theory Institute Lectures, University of California, Irvine, February 2004.

Invited panelist for “The Multiplicity of Studies in English and Foreign Languages,” co- sponsored by the MLA Office of Foreign Language Programs and the Office of English Programs. 2004 MLA conference, San Diego.

“Pre-emption and the Future of the Imagination.” Philosophy and Literature panel, 2004 MLA, San Diego.

“Reterritorializing Asia Pacific” for roundtable on “Who’s Next?: North Korea and Beyond” with Bruce Cumings, Jonathan Schell, and Luis Francia. Co-sponsored by Department of East Asian Studies, Law & Society Program & Institute,American Studies Program, Department of History, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Anthropology Department, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University, April 2003.

“Multiculturalism, Cosmopolitanism, and War” (invited). Santa Clara University, Globalization Institute, March 2003.

“Asian/America After September 11th” (invited). University of Oregon, Center for Asia and Pacific Studies, and Center for Critical Theory and Transnational Studies. February 2003.

“Multiculturalism Now: Civilization, National Identity, and Difference Before and After September 11th. ” Future of Minority Studies conference, Stanford, October 2001.

“Globalization, Narrative, and Affect.” (invited). Paper presented at Yale University, February 2001; Harvard University, April 2001; University of California, Los Angeles, May 2001.

“The Media is the Message: Racial Politics and the News Media.” (invited). University of Michigan, March 2001.

"Gilroy's Against Race: Yes, but at what cost?" (invited). Paper presented at the conference on "Diasporas africaines dans l'ancien et le nouveau monde: conscience et imaginaire." Sorbonne, 26-28 October 2000.

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Invited panelist for "Diasporas: Transnational Identities and the Politics of the Homeland," Organized by the William Saroyan Chair in Armenian Studies and the Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies. University of California, Berkeley. November 13, 1999.

“Retrospective on Asian American Studies” (invited). Conference on the 25th Anniversary of Asian American Studies, University of California, Berkeley. October 1999.

"Beyond 'Immigrant' 'Literature'" (invited). Paper presented at the Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, June 1999.

Keynote address, University of Washington conference on American Studies. May 26, 1999.

"Relativity and Racism: Locating Race in the United States" (invited). Paper presented to the seminar on Science and History, University of California, San Diego, March 1999.

“Asian American Studies in an Interdisciplinary Frame” Invited talk, University of California, Santa Cruz. February 1999.

"Cynical Individualism, Opportunistic 'Democracy': the New Uses of Merit" (invited paper for plenary panel), Conference of Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education, San Francisco, March 1999.

“Are We All ‘Ethnic’ Now? Comparative Literature at the Turn of the Century” (invited). Conference and workshop on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Comparative Literature major at Yale University, co-sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center. February 1999.

Invited speaker for a Roundtable on Research and Pedagogy, sponsored by the Office of the Executive Director of the Modern Languages Association. Annual convention, San Francisco, December 1998.

"Ethnicity and Diaspora: Process and Narration" (invited). Centre interdisciplinaire du récherche nord américaine, Université de Paris 7 (Institut Charles V). November 1998.

“Out of Place: Transnationalism, Race, and the New Cold War.” Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, Hawaii, June 1998.

Invited lecture, Futures of American Literary Studies, Dartmouth, June 1998.

Invited lecture, Seminar and Colloquium on the Pacific Rim, University of Washington, May 1998.

Invited speaker, Conference on Postcolonialism and Transnationalisms, Stanford University, May 1998.

Invited speaker, Conference on “Materializing Culture,” Stanford Humanities Center, March 1998.

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Invited speaker for conference on Rethinking Civil Society, San Francisco State University, March 1998.

“Out of Place: Transnational Capital and Race.” Invited speaker, conference on “Race, Class, Citizenship, and Extraterritoriality: Asian Americans and Campaign Finance Reform.” San Francisco, November 14, 1997.

Invited speaker, conference on “Exile, the Nation, Globalization, and De-Nationalization in Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies.” Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, October 18, 1997.

Invited speaker, conference on “Race and Money in Campaign Finance Politics.” University of Washington, October 17, 1997.

“Putting Diaspora to Work: Observations on Asian American City Space” (invited). Annual Symposium of the Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley, April 1997.

“Re-Facing the Nation: Surgery and Foreign Relations” (invited). University of Maryland conference on Asian American Studies, March 1997.

Invited panelist, Harvard Symposium on Chinese diasporic studies, Asian and Asian American studies, and Ethnic Studies at Harvard. April 1996.

“Historical Permutations of the Place of Race,” presented for the panel, “The Place of the Personal in Scholarship” sponsored by PMLA (invited). Modern Languages Association convention, Chicago, 1995.

“Wetbacks and Re-essentialized Confucians: the Invention of the Modern Racial Category of Asian.” Association of Asian American Studies, Oakland CA, June 1995.

“The Bitter Tea of Frank Capra: Capitalism and Conscience” (invited). Rethinking Race conference, University of Pennsylvania, October 1994.

Panelist (invited), “Re-Thinking Ethnic Studies.” Minority Discourse Project, University of California Humanities Research Institute, UC Irvine, April 1994.

Panelist, “Diaspora: Concept and Critique.” Association for Asian Studies conference, Boston, 1994.

“Universalisms and Minority Cultures” (invited). University of California/Davis, University of California/Irvine, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and Harvard University, March 1994.

Invited panelist for session on “Postcolonial literatures and feminist perspectives.” MELUS conference, University of California, Berkeley, May 1993.

13 “On the Functions of the Asian America in the Recent American Imaginary.” American Comparative Literature Association conference, Indiana University, March 1993.

Panelist (invited) for Positions roundtable on East Asian Cultural Critique. Association for Asian Studies conference, Los Angeles, March 1993.

“The Poetic Subject of Knowledge” (invited). “Theorizing the Subject of China” conference sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, UC Santa Cruz, January 1993.

Invited speaker, University of California Humanities Research Institute conference on “Minority Discourse: Ideological Containment and Utopian/Heterotopian Potentials,” June 1992, UC Irvine.

“Model Minority Literature: The Politics of Healing,” presented at the annual Association of Asian American Studies convention, San Jose State University, May 1992.

Invited discussant, panel on “Nationality and Ethnicity,” conference on “Intervention: Orientalism in the Context of East Asia,” UC Berkeley, April 1992.

Convener and panelist, “Power and Personae in Nonwestern Discourses,” conference of the International Association of Philosophy and Literature, UC Berkeley, April 1992.

Invited participant, University of California Humanities Research Institute conference on “Travelling Theory” December 1991, UC Irvine.

Workshop co-convener (with José David Saldívar): “(Post)National Narratives,” for conference on “Global Economies, Local Ethnicities: Culture and the Crisis of the National,” sponsored by the Goethe Institute, Stanford University, November 1991.

“Song Dynasty Modes of Identification: The Question of Alterity in Medieval Chinese Poetics.” Paper presented to Paul Zumthor at roundtable colloquium on Zumthor’s Parler du Moyen Age, UC Berkeley, October 1991.

Invited speaker, Association of Departments of English seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1991.

"The Idea of Health: Ideology and the Closure of the Ethnic Novel" (invited). Speakers series on "Postcoloniality and California," University of California, San Diego, 1991.

"Scripture and Science: Remarks on Modern Chinese Literary History," (invited) for conference on "Occidentalism: China's Image of the West," sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and the Center for East Asian Studies, May, 1991.

"Writing and the Possibilities of Culture in Medieval China." Conference on Writing/Écriture/Schrift, Stanford University, 1991.

"Terms of Indifference: Cosmopolitanism and Diversity." Inaugural address, Stanford University, 1991.

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Invited panelist, "Politics and Pedagogy: Teaching Asian Literature as World Literature." MLA convention, Chicago, 1990.

"Reconstitutions: The Dialectic of Narration and Self in Kogawa and Walker." (invited) American Literature Association conference, San Diego, 1990.

"The Other as Self: Problematics of Self-Representation in Asian American Literature." MLA, Washington, 1989.

"Abbreviating Asia." Panel on pedagogy and politics in Asian literary studies, MLA, Washington, 1989.

"The Rhetorical Strategies of Dislocation" (invited). Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies, Hunter College, CUNY, 1989.

"Huang Tingjian's Critical Appropriations." Presented at special session on critical revisions in traditional Asian literatures, MLA, New Orleans, 1988.

"Discourse and Dislocation." Presented on panel on Asian-American literature, Modern Languages Association conference, New Orleans, 1988.

Sample of courses taught

Comparative Ethnic Autobiography Comparative Fictions of Ethnicity Ethnicity and Immigration in France and the United States The Postmodern Pacific Introduction to Asian American Cultures Ethnicity and Literature Worlds (No Longer) Apart Culture and Politics Hybridity and Diaspora Comparative Nationalisms Rhetorics of Democracy Ethics in a Time of Crisis IHUM: Freedom, Equality and Difference

Dissertation Committees Director of Dissertation Eileen Chow (Comparative Literature), associate professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Duke University. Bakirathi Mani (MTL), associate professor, Swarthmore College Celine Parrenas (MTL), professor, UC Santa Barbara Jayson Sau-Saue (MTL) assistant professor, Marquette University Jana Sequoya (MTL)

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Committee member Yael Ben-zvi (MTL) assistant professor, Ben Gurion University Shameem Black (English), assistant professor, University of New South Wales Manishita Dass (MTL), professor, U London Lydia Francis (Asian Languages), assistant professor, Tufts University Mark Francis (Asian Languages), lecturer, Tufts University Heather Houser (English), assistant professor, University of Texas, Austin. Alexander Huang (Comp Lit), Professor, Penn State Rachael Joo (Anthropology) assistant professor, Duke Ming-Yeung Lu (Modern Thought and Literature) Jayson Sae-Saue, assistant professor, Marquette University. Vascile Stanescu (MTL) Rebecca Stein (MTL), associate professor, Duke University Nirvana Tanoukhi (MTL) assistant professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison Amy Tang (English) assistant professor, Wellesley Lisa Thompson (MTL), professor, SUNY-Albany Timothy Yu (English), associate professor, U Wisconsin Mingbao Yue (Asian Languages) Yingjin Zhang (Comparative Literature), professor, UC San Diego.

Select Service and Activities

Stanford University Chair, Breadth Governance Board (2014-) Chair, Academic Senate (elected, 2013-14) Vice-Chair, Academic Senate (elected, 2012-13) Steering Committee of Academic Senate (2012-13) Committee on Undergraduate Standards and Practices (2012-13) Committee on Undergraduate Research (2012- ) Governing Board on Writing (2012-13) Vice-Chair, Academic Senate (elected; 2010-11) Steering Committee, Academic Senate (2010-11) Francophone search committee, DLCL, 2010 Sohn reappointment committee, Department of English, 2010 Persian search committee, Comparative Literature, 2009 Masters in Liberal Arts Advisory Committee, 2009- Director of Graduate Studies (2009-10) Chair, Committee on Committees of Faculty Senate (elected) (2009-10) Academic Senate (2009-2011) DLCL Planning and Personnel Committee (2008-) Arabic search committee, 2008 University Committee on Faculty Staff Human Resources (2008-) Director of Undergraduate Studies (2008) Director of Graduate Admissions (2008) Chair, José David Saldívar hiring committee (2008) Search Committee for Middle Eastern Scholar (Abassi Program) (2006-2007)

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Recent Conferences Organized

May 2012 International conference on “Restructuring the Humanities.” May 2012 BiblioTech conference on humanities PhDs and technologies, entrepreneurship: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/may/bibliotech-humanities-conference- 051011.html

Public lectures, media, blogs

All blogs and media appearances after 2010 (for Truthout, The Nation, Salon, Huffington Post, Al Jazeera, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, openDemocracy) are on my website: palumbo- liu.com.

“Representation of Race and Ethnicity in Art and Literature.” San Francisco Litquake event, October 2010. Youtube.com/watch?v=SNGOZTplpVw.

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“California on the Edge of America’s Modernity” (invited speech to Stanford Alumni Association, Los Angeles, February 2001).

“The History of Asian American Literature and Its Social Context,” (invited) speech for the Western Regional Division of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, San Francisco, April 1992.

"Asians in America: The Making of History-History in the Making" (invited) speech delivered at Stanford Centennial, September 1991.

Media interviews (for after 2012 please see my website for list and links)

Live Chat with Cathy Davidson, Anne Balsamo, Howard Rheingold on “How Brain Science will Change Education.” Sponsored by Chronicle of Higher Education 8 August 2012: http://chronicle.com/article/How-Brain-Science-Will-Change/128793/

“Reterritorializing Asia Pacific.” Lecture at New York University broadcast on “Democracy Now!” (Pacifica Radio and Television) April 29, 2003.

Interviewed for “What’s the Word” radio program for the Modern Languages Association, broadcast nationally on National Public Radio, spring 2001.

Interviewed in Chronicle of Higher Education 31 May, 1996 (XLII: 38), pp. A13-14. (“A New Emphasis on Ethnic Studies” ). Other newsprint interviews include: San Francisco Examiner (June 18, 1998, A-5); Los Angeles Times (May 1998); New York Times (June 9, 1999, B11)).

“Multicultural emphasis must go on.” Solicited opinion column on new Stanford president. San Jose Mercury News September 19, 1999 1C, 3C.

Interviewed by KGO (ABC, Channel 7) for program, “California Education” (taped 7 December1993, broadcast 17 December 1993).

Consulting Work: Invited appearance before the University of California Board of Regents to testify regarding Stanford’s admissions policies and goals. October 17, 2001.

Public Service:

National Advisory Board, Manilatown Heritage Foundation

Other professional service

Reader American Literary History American Quarterly

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Project reviewer National Endowment for the Humanities

Fellowship Evaluator John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation National Science Council, Taiwan

Consultant Whittier College (for multicultural curricula)

Editorial Board Modern Languages Association of America publication series, Resource Guides for the Literatures of America Stanford Literature Review (1990-95) Stanford University Press, (1993-96; ch, 1995-96)

Co-editor, with Sucheng Chan and Michael Omi, Temple University Press series, Asian American History and Culture

Editorial Collective Positions--East Asia Culture Critique

Contributing Editor Review of Education, Pedagogy, Cultural Studies

Other committee work: William Riley Parker Prize Selection Committee, Modern Languages Association (2006-2008) Program Committee, Modern Languages Association (2006-2008) Executive Board, Association for Asian American Studies (2005-2007) Nominating Committee (elected), Modern Languages Association (2004-06) Executive Committee, MLA Division on Asian Literatures (1989) MLA Committee on the Languages and Literatures of America (1989-92)

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Advisory Board, American Comparative Literature Association (1984-85)

Executive Board (elected) Association for Asian American Studies (2005-2007)

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