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Pericles Lewis Vice President for Global Strategy Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of Comparative Literature [email protected]

EDUCATION

Stanford University Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, 1997 A.M. in Comparative Literature, 1991

McGill University B.A. with first-class honors in English Literature, 1990

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

Yale University, 2017-present Vice President for Global Strategy Deputy Provost Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English (since 2018) Senior Research Fellow, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies

PRIOR EMPLOYMENT

Yale-NUS College, National University of Singapore, 2012-2017 Founding President Professor of Humanities

Yale University, 1998-2012 Professor, Departments of English and Comparative Literature, 2007-2012 Associate Professor, Departments of English and Comparative Literature, 2002-2007 Assistant Professor, Departments of English and Comparative Literature, 1998-2002

University of California, Berkeley Visiting Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of English, 1996-1998

HONORS AND AWARDS

Master of Arts privatim, Yale University 2008 Graduate Mentor Award, Yale University 2004 Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Junior Faculty Member, Yale University 2000 McGill Graduates’ Society Award for Student Service 1990

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION COURSES (ATTENDED)

Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute, regular participant, since 2018 Yale Higher Education Leadership Summit, 2018 US College Presidents’ Leadership Seminar Review, Dublin City University, 2015 Harvard Seminar for New Presidents, Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), 2013 Institute for Management and Leadership in Education, HGSE, 2012

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FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

Grants from Teagle and Luce Foundations to support conference on curricular design 2015-2016 Grant from Imitatio Foundation to support conference on René Girard 2011-2012 Faculty Research Grant, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies 2011-2012 Paul Moore Memorial Fund Grants for Instructional Innovation, Yale University 2008-2011 John and Yvonne McCredie Fellowship in Instructional Technology, Yale University 2007, 2011-2013 Davis Foundation Electronic Library Initiative Course Support Grant 2005 A. Whitney Griswold Research Grants, Yale University 1999, 2005 Summer Institute in Literary Studies Stipend, National Humanities Center 2003 Frederick W. Hilles Publication Fund Grant, Yale University 2002-2003 Morse Fellowship for Junior Faculty in the Humanities, Yale University 2001-2002 Whitney Humanities Center Junior Faculty Fellowship, Yale University 2000-2001 Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1996-1998 Institute for International Studies Dissertation Grant, 1995-1996 Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities 1994-1995 Stanford Humanities Center Doctoral Fellowship 1993-1994 Mellon Foundation/Stanford Center for European Studies Research Grant 1993-1994

PUBLICATIONS

SOLE AUTHOR: BOOKS Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Also available in eBook. The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Also available in paperback and eBook. Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. EBook edition 2005; paperback edition 2007. Awarded the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for outstanding scholarly work by a junior faculty member in the humanities at Yale University.

WORK IN PROGRESS A Liberal Education. Book-length manuscript on the purposes of liberal education, drawing on my experiences in the founding of Yale-NUS College.

EDITING Editor. The Norton Anthology of World Literature, third edition. Primarily responsible for volume F, Literature Since 1900, under the general editorship of Martin Puchner. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. Shorter edition, 2013. Fourth edition and fourth shorter edition, 2018. Electronic edition 2015: https://digital.wwnorton.com/worldlit3v2. Editor, The Norton Anthology of Western Literature, ninth edition. Primarily responsible for final section, Literature Since 1900, under the general editorship of Martin Puchner. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014. Founder and editor. The Modernism Lab, a virtual space for collaborative research on modernism. https://modernism.coursepress.yale.edu/. 2007-2012. Portions now available at http://modernistcommons.ca/articles. Editor. The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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PUBLICATIONS, CONTINUED

SOLE AUTHOR: ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS “Christopher Newman’s Haircloth Shirt: Worldly Asceticism, Conversion, and Auto-machia in .” Studies in the Novel 37 (2005): 308-28. “The Reality of the Unseen: Shared fictions and religious experience in the ghost stories of .” Arizona Quarterly 61.2 (Summer 2005): 33-66. “Churchgoing in the Modern Novel.” Modernism/Modernity 11 (2004): 667-94. “‘His Sympathies were in the Right Place’: Heart of Darkness and the Discourse of National Character.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 53 (1998): 211-44. Reprinted in Harold Bloom, ed. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: Modern Critical Interpretations. New York: Chelsea House Press, 2008. 51-78. “The ‘True’ Homer: Myth and Enlightenment in Vico, Horkheimer, and Adorno.” New Vico Studies 10 (1992): 24-35.

SOLE AUTHOR: CHAPTERS OF REFEREED BOOKS “Globalizing the Liberal Arts: Twenty-First Century Education.” Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, ed. Nancy Gleason. Berlin: Springer, 2018. 15-38. “In Asia, for the World: Liberal Education and Innovation.” Experiences in Liberal Arts and Science Education from America, Europe, and Asia: A Dialogue Across Continents, ed. William Kirby and Marijk van der Wende. London: Palgrave, 2016. 47-60. “Modernism and Religion.” The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, second edition, ed. Michael Levenson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 178-96. “Inventing Literary Modernism During the Great War.” London, Modernism and 1914, ed. Michael Walsh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 148-64. “Religion.” A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture, ed. Kevin J. H. Dettmar and David Bradshaw. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. 19-28. “Teaching Theory through ‘Daisy Miller.’” Approaches to Teaching Henry James’s “Daisy Miller” and “.” Ed. Kimberly Reed and Peter Beidler. New York: Modern Language Association, 2005. “Walter Benjamin in the information age? On the limited possibilities for a defetishizing critique of culture.” In Mapping Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Digital Age. Ed. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and Michael Marrinan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. 221-9. “The Conscience of the Race: The Nation as Church of the Modern Age in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Joyce Through the Ages. Ed. Michael P. Gillespie. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. 81-106. Reprinted in the Norton Critical Edition of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce, ed. John Paul Riquelme. New York: Norton, 2007. 451-70.

CO-AUTHOR: ARTICLES OR CHAPTERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS AND BOOKS Emily Hayman and Pericles Lewis, “Can there be a Global Modernism?” in The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature, ed. Mark Nixon and Ulrika Maude. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. 329-48. Pericles Lewis and Katherine Rupp, “Liberal Education in Asia: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities,” New Global Studies 9 (2015): 245-66. (Solicited and refereed). Elyse Graham and Pericles Lewis, “Private Religion, Public Mourning, and Mrs. Dalloway,” Modern Philology 111 (2013): 88-106.

SOLE AUTHOR: NON-REFEREED ESSAYS AND OPINION PIECES “Shaping Minds through Liberal Arts Education.” Singapore: Insights from the Inside, vol. 3 (Singapore: Singapore International Foundation, 2018), 153-155. Foreword, Local Encounters in a Global City: Singapore Stories, ed. Anju Mary Paul (Singapore: Ethos Books, 2017), 6-7. “A Challenging Time for Cosmopolitan Education,” Times Higher Education, February 2, 2017. “The Value of Research in the Social Sciences,” Singapore Straits-Times, January 7, 2017. Pericles Lewis 4

PUBLICATIONS, CONTINUED

SOLE AUTHOR: NON-REFEREED ESSAYS AND OPINION PIECES, CONTINUED “Innovation in Higher Education: The Yale-NUS Experience,” Daily Financial Times, Sri Lanka (May 10, 2016): 19. “The Rise of Liberal Arts in Singapore,” EduNation 10 (April 2016): 18-19. “Asia Invests in the Liberal Arts,” Harvard International Review 35.1 (Summer 2013): 36-39. Foreword, Yale-NUS College: A New Community of Learning, by Bryan Garsten, et al. New Haven: Yale University, 2013. “In Asia, Future Looks Bright for Liberal-Arts Education,” WorldWise Blog, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 25, 2012. “Building a Community of Learning,” Singapore Straits-Times, July 7, 2012. “Modernism.” Encyclopedia Americana. 2008. “Proust, Woolf, and Modern Fiction.” Romanic Review 99 (2008): 77-86. “James’s Sick Souls.” Henry James Review 22 (2001): 248-58. “Dracula and the Epistemology of the Victorian Gothic Novel.” In Dracula: The Shade and the Shadow—A Critical Anthology. Ed. Elizabeth Miller. Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex: Desert Island Books, 1998. 71-81.

SOLE AUTHOR: REVIEWS “You are Without Land, Without Love,” Review of The Dawn Watch by Maya Jasanoff. Los Angeles Review of Books. December 24, 2017. “No Business Like the Supernatural Business,” Review of Supernatural Entertainments by Simone Natale. Los Angeles Review of Books, February 15, 2017. Review of Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature by David Ellison. Modern Philology 102 (2004): 144-8. “Literary Politics of the New Deal.” Review essay on Gumshoe America by Sean McCann and New Deal Modernism by Michael Szalay. Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 15 (2003): 193-202. Review of Chaos Theory and Joyce’s Everyman by Peter Mackey. Criticism 43 (2002): 484-8. Review of Modernist Writing and Reactionary Politics by Charles Ferrall. Modernism/Modernity 8 (2001): 696-8. Review of Reading on the Edge by Cyraina E. Johnson-Roullier. Modern Fiction Studies 47 (2001): 1065-8. “The Politics of Modernism.” Review essay on Unruly Tongue by Martha J. Cutter and The Radical Twenties by John Lucas. Modern Fiction Studies 46 (2000): 959-65. Review of Proust Among the Stars by Malcolm Bowie. Modern Fiction Studies 45 (1999): 1060-62. Review of Remembering and the Sounds of Words by Adam Piette. International Review of Modernism 2.2 (Spring/Summer, 1999): 43-4. Review of The Word According to James Joyce by Cordell Yee. International Review of Modernism 1.2 (Spring/Summer, 1998): 51-2.

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS Editor. The Modern World in Literature and the Arts. New Haven: Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, 2009. Co-Author. Instructor’s Manual to accompany Writing for Change, a composition textbook. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995. Co-author with Ann Watters and Marjorie Ford.

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PRESENTATIONS PUBLIC OR INVITED LECTURES ON EDUCATIONAL ISSUES “Internationalizing Liberal Arts Education.” Tel Aviv University, March 2018. “Building a Liberal Arts Program in Southeast Asia.” Keynote Address, AIMS Conference, Waseda University, Tokyo, January 2018. “In Asia, For the World: The Common Curriculum at Yale-NUS College,” Symposium on “Strengthening the Core,” Stanford University, April 2017. “International Higher Education Partnerships: The Yale-NUS Experience,” Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 2016. “Liberal Education and Innovation,” presented in various forms at: Keynote Address, Universitas21 Conference, Singapore, May 2016. Pan-Asia Liberal Arts Conference, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, October 2015. Global Dialogue on Liberal Arts and Sciences Education, Harvard Center, Shanghai, May 2015. Conference on “The University as a Source of Innovation and Development,” Stanford Center, Peking University, Beijing, October 2014. Keynote address at 10th anniversary celebration of the School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, October 2014. Gates Professional Schools Lecture Series, Manila, Philippines, September 2014. “Liberal Education in an Age of Globalization,” Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, November 2015. “Prospects for Humanities and Liberal Arts Education in East Asia,” National Cheng-Chi University, Taiwan, May 2014. “Medicine and the Liberal Arts,” 11th Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, January 2014. “Liberal Arts Education in Southeast Asia,” presented in various forms at: International Keynote Speaker, Guardian University Forum 2014, London, February 2014. Future of Liberal Arts in India, Bangalore, January 2014. New Asia College-Yale-China Association 60th Anniversary Conference, Hong Kong, December 2013. “Curricula for a Global World: Examples of Best Practices,” World-Leading Schools Association, New Haven, October 2013. “Cross-Cultural Liberal Education: The Classics in Singapore,” College Year in Athens, Greece, October 2013. “Liberal Arts in the 21st Century,” China-Yale Advanced University Leadership Program, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, April 2013. “Evaluating the Global Relevance of Liberal Arts Education,” International Alliance of Research Universities Presidents’ Meeting, Singapore, April 2013. “Making the Case for Liberal Arts: Do they Drive Innovation?” Unleashing Innovation Conference, sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, Singapore, February 2013. “Bridging Asia and the West in a New Liberal Arts Partnership,” International Symposium on Renaissance of Liberal Studies in Asian Universities, Seoul National University, South Korea, October 2012. “Yale-NUS College: A Unique Partnership,” World Performing Universities Conference, Singapore, October 2012. “Academic Freedom Abroad: Establishing a Partnership in Asia,” McGill Conference on Academic Freedom, Montréal, Québec, September 2012.

PUBLIC OR INVITED LECTURES ON ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE “Jorge Luis Borges, Inventor of the Internet,” Center for Comparative Literature, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, May 2014. “Kafka, Freud, and the Suspicion of Hermeneutics,” Department of English and Program in Jewish Studies, Trinity College, Hartford, November 2011. Pericles Lewis 6

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PUBLIC OR INVITED LECTURES ON ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, CONTINUED “Modernism and the Digital Humanities,” University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 2011. “The Demon of Analogy: Politics and the Novel since the New Historicism,” lecture at the Symposium on Politics and the Novel, Center for the Study of the Novel, Stanford University, April 2009. “The Burial of the Dead in Modernist Fiction,” lecture given in various forms at: Modernism Seminar, Humanities Center, Harvard University, April 2008 College of Letters, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, April 2008 Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, January 2010 English Department, Johns Hopkins University, October 2010 English Department, University of Toronto, October 2010 Deitchman Lectures on Religion and Modernity, College of the Holy Cross, February 2013. “Modernism and the Secularization Hypothesis,” panel presentation at “Modernism’s Transnational Futures” roundtable, seminar on “Modernism and Globalization,” Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, November 2007 “The Secularization Hypothesis,” lecture and seminar, Mellon Graduate Workshop on Modernity, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, April 2006. “How Secular is the Modern Age?” lecture to the Philosophy Society, State University of New York, Purchase College, November 2005. “Virginia Woolf and the Re-enchantment of the World,” Department of English, State University of New York, Buffalo, January 2005. “Religious Experience in the Modernist Novel,” lecture and seminar, Department of English, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, November 2004. “Secularization and the Modern Novel,” Migratory Modernisms workshop, sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Board (U.K.), State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2004. “Proust, Woolf, and Modern Fiction,” Colloquium on “La Nouvelle Revue Française and Modernism,” Maison Française and Department of French, Columbia University, New York, April 2003. “Mana and the Modern Novel,” lecture given in various forms at: English Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, January 2002; English Department, Washington University in St. Louis, November 2001; English Department, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, November 2001. “The Conscience of the Race: Balzac, Joyce, and the Dynamic of Disillusionment,” invited lecture and seminar at the Trinity Center for Collaborative Teaching and Research, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, November 1999. “Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel,” Department of English, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, February 1998. “What was the Nation?: The discourses of character and will in liberal nationalism,” Nineteenth-Century England research group, University of California, Berkeley, February 1997. “National Imaginings in Balzac and Joyce,” Department of English, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, January 1996. “Foucault’s ‘The Discourse on Language’ and the Regulation of Hate Speech,” Program in Cultures, Ideas, and Values, Stanford University, May 1994. “Althusser’s Conception of the Ideological State Apparatus,” guest lecture in the English Department’s graduate course on literary theory, Peking University, Beijing, March 1993.

CONFERENCE PAPERS “Mann’s Magic Mountain and the Burial of the Dead,” Modernist Studies Association, Amsterdam, August 2017. “Canonizing Contemporary Literature in Translation: The Norton Anthology of World Literature,” American Comparative Literature Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, April 2011. “James Joyce’s Event Horizon,” Modernist Studies Association, Victoria, B.C., November 2010. Pericles Lewis 7

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CONFERENCE PAPERS, CONTINUED “Modernism and the Digital Humanities,” Editing Modernism in Canada Conference, Toronto, Ontario, October 2010. “Cosmopolitan Modernism,” American Comparative Literature Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2010. “The Place of Comparative Literature in a Global University,” Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 2007. “Religious Difference in Modernity,” American Comparative Literature Association, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J., March 2006. “Teaching Modernism in Literature and the Arts,” Workshop on “Eyes In Connecticut: Developing 21st Century Visual Literacy,” New Haven, March 2006. “Walter Benjamin in the Information Age,” American Comparative Literature Association, University of Colorado, Boulder, April 2001. “The Nineteenth-Century Debate Between Character and Will,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Yale University, April 2000. “Rousseau and Proust on the Will,” American Comparative Literature Association, Yale University, February 2000. “National Character and National Will in Liberalism,” Modern Literature Conference on “Cultural Citizenship,” Michigan State University, Lansing, October 1999. “Joyce’s Figural Vision of History in Ulysses,” International James Joyce Conference, College of Charleston, South Carolina, June 1999. “The Dilemma of Determinism: Henry James and on Émile Zola,” International Conference on Émile Zola, California State University, Los Angeles, October 1997. “Dracula and the Epistemology of the Victorian Gothic Novel,” Dracula Centennial Conference, Los Angeles, August 1997. “The Nation as Church of the Modern Age: Joyce’s Portrait,” Miami Joyce Conference, University of Miami, Florida, January 1997. “Forging the Conscience of His Race: The Modern Novelist as Redeemer of the Nation,” Graduate Student Conference on “Displacing Nationalisms,” University of California, Irvine, May 1996. “The Meanings of Modernist ‘India’: Three Inversions of Colonial Rape,” Comparative Literature Association of India Biennial Congress, University of Delhi, February 1993.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

CONFERENCES CONVENED “Twenty Years of Peace: Conference on Peace and Possibilities in Northern Ireland,” co-hosted along with primary convener, Bonnie Weir, Yale Political Science, New Haven, November 2018. “Innovation in Liberal Arts and Sciences Curriculum Design,” Conference and workshop for faculty and leadership of undergraduate colleges, New Haven, June 2016. Co-chaired with Charles Bailyn and Bryan Penprase. “International Liberal Education,” Inaugural Symposium, Yale-NUS College, featuring 30 presidents, vice-chancellors, and other leaders of colleges and universities around the world, Singapore, October 2015. Chaired with the assistance of Yale-NUS faculty and staff. Symposium on René Girard’s Deceit, Desire and the Novel: 50 Years Later, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, October 2011. Co-chaired with Barry McCrea. Workshops on Liberal Arts Curriculum for Yale-NUS College, New Haven, August 2011. These were the first in a series of workshops on the development of Yale-NUS College. Co-chaired with Charles Bailyn. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Yale University, February 2000. Co- chaired with Catherine Labio. Pericles Lewis 8

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, CONTINUED

SEMINARS AND PANELS CONVENED Chair, convenor, or host of leadership education courses at Yale, including Women in African Governments Leadership Program, China-Yale Youth Leaders Program, and China-Yale Advanced University Leadership Program, annually since 2017. Chair, Seminar on “Translation and Literary History,” American Comparative Literature Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, April 2011. Organizer and Presenter, “Modernism and the Digital Humanities,” Modernist Studies Association, Montréal, November 2009. Chair, Panel on “Modernist Childhood,” Modernist Studies Association, Montréal, November 2009. Chair and organizer, Seminar on “European Modernisms,” American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, March 2009. Chair and organizer, Seminar on “Transnational Modernism,” American Comparative Literature Association, Puebla, Mexico, April 2007. Chair, Panel on “Modernism and Citizenship,” Modernist Studies Association, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, November 2005. Chair, Panel on “Taking Them at Their Word: Modernist Metanarratives,” Modernist Studies Association, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, November 2005. Chair, Panel on “Jacques Derrida at Yale” Conference, October, 2005. Chair and organizer, Seminar on “Modernism, Nation, Empire,” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, March 2005. Chair, Panel on “Modernism’s Other Gender: Male Writers and Female Identification,” Modernist Studies Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 2004. Chair and organizer, Seminar on “Modernisms, Global and Local,” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 2004. Chair and organizer, Seminar on “International Modernism,” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, California State University-San Marcos, April 2003. Chair and organizer, Seminar on “Modernism and Religious Experience,” Modernist Studies Association Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2002. Chair and organizer, Seminar on “The Politics of Novelistic Form,” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Yale University, February 2000.

PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH SEMINARS “Modernism and Religion,” (Stephen Kern, Chair), Seminar featuring my book Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel, Modernist Studies Association, State University of New York, Buffalo, October 2011. “Modernism in the 1950s,” (Marsha Bryant and Lesley Wheeler, Chairs), Seminar, Modernist Studies Association, California State University, Long Beach, November 2007. “Beyond Plural Modernisms,” (Debra Rae Cohen, Chair), Seminar, Modernist Studies Association, University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, October 2006. “Modernism at the Outbreak of the Great War,” (Michael Walsh, Chair), Seminar, Modernist Studies Association, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, November 2005. “‘Is Nothing Sacred?’: Re-examining the Fate of the Sacred in Modernism and Modernity,” (Garry Leonard, Chair), Seminar, Modernist Studies Association, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 2004. “The Poetry of W. B. Yeats,” (Helen Vendler, Leader), Summer Institute in Literary Studies, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, July 2003. “Modernist Utopias,” (Doug Mao, Chair), Seminar, Modernist Studies Association, Rice University, Houston, Texas, October 2001.

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OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, CONTINUED

PANEL PRESENTATIONS (SELECTED) “Liberal Arts Education in Asia: A Dialogue Among Graduates and Educators,” Keynote Panel at Launch Conference of Association of Asian Liberal Arts Universities, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, November 2017. “Directed Studies and the Future of Liberal Education,” Directed Studies at 70, An Experiment in Liberal Education, Yale University, March 2017. “Liberal Arts Education in Asia,” Hong Kong Baptist University, November 2016. “Future of the Liberal Arts in the Digital Age” Symposium, University of Notre Dame, October 2016. “University Hubs and the Societies they are Intended to Serve,” Worldviews Conference, University of Toronto, June 2013. “International University Education,” The International Herald Tribune Education Forum, Singapore, October 2012. “The Modernism Lab,” Modernist Networks roundtable, Modernist Studies Association, Victoria, B.C., November 2010. “Literary Study over the Next Decade,” Conference on The State and Stakes of Literary Study, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, N.C., March 2010. Participant, “Wolfgang Iser, Traveling Viewpoints, and Modernity,” Roundtable, Modernist Studies Association, Long Beach, California, November 2007. Participant, “The Cambridge Introduction series,” Special Session of “What are you reading?,” Modernist Studies Association, Long Beach, California, November 2007.

SPEAKER SERIES HOSTED Hosted, introduced, and in some cases interviewed, prominent public figures and academics: John Kerry and George Mitchell, Kerry Conversation, Yale University, December 2018. President’s Speaker Series, Yale-NUS College, 2013-2017. Authors Pico Iyer and Geoff Dyer, Poets Aimee Nezhukhumatathil and Jane Hirshfield, Journalists Maria Ressa and Emily Bazelon, Film- maker Anthony Chen, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel Physics Laureate Brian Schmidt, Nobel Chemistry Laureate Sidney Altman, and other distinguished academics and entrepreneurs. Twentieth-century Colloquium, Yale University English Department. Philosopher Richard Rorty, Literary Critics Daniel Albright, Brent Edwards, Doug Mao, Sean McCann, and Rebecca Walkowitz.

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES, YALE UNIVERSITY

Vice President for Global Strategy and Deputy Provost, 2017-present • Officer of the University, reporting jointly to President and Provost • Setting global strategy for the University across all schools, divisions, and departments • As Vice President, responsible for international programs and partnerships in China, Singapore, Africa, U.K., and throughout the world, including: o oversight of Office of International Affairs; Office of International Students and Scholars o responsible for Conferences & Events, Marketing and Trademark Enforcement, and Yale Young Global Scholars programs o responsible for Yale’s participation in Yale-NUS College, a joint venture with the National University of Singapore • As Deputy Provost, responsible for research and teaching on international matters at Yale, including: o oversight of MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies; Jackson Institute for Global Affairs; Gruber Family Foundation; Schwarzman Center (campus center); International Security Studies; Center for the Study of Globalization o these units support 5 master’s degree programs, 7 undergraduate majors, over 200 faculty members, and a wide variety of student activities Pericles Lewis 10

ACADEMIC SERVICE, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE Investment Committee (Observer) 2014-2017 Deans’ Meeting, monthly meeting of heads of all schools and faculties 2013-2017

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES, YALE-NUS COLLEGE Founding President, 2012-2017 Responsible for all aspects of the College’s operations, including: • recruitment, appointment, and development of 120 faculty (chaired appointments committee) • recruitment, appointment, and development of 180 staff • recruitment, education, and well-being of 710 students from around the world • responsible for educational activities and innovative curriculum spanning Asia and West • research management, including tenure and promotion of research-active faculty • physical infrastructure of the College o with governing board, oversaw construction of state-of-the art, $250-million campus • reporting to Yale-NUS College Governing Board o broad strategic planning aimed at academic excellence and unique student experience o responsibility for substantial fundraising campaign supporting NUS President o developed and implemented plan for campaign o met goals, built $350-million endowment; oversaw $65-million annual budget

ACADEMIC SERVICE, YALE COLLEGE, GRADUATE SCHOOL, AND UNIVERSITY-WIDE Extended Governing Board, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 2018-present Chair, Program Committee, Schwarzman Center 2018-present Executive Committee, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies 2017-present Executive Committee, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs 2017-present Provost’s International Advisory Committee (chair, 2016-present) 2015-present Chair, Search Committee, Director, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies 2018-2019 Search Committee Member, Director, Yale Center for British Art 2018-2019 Search Committee Member, Dean, Yale School of Management 2018-2019 Advisory Committee Member, Canadian Studies Program 2018-2019 Chair, Search Committee, Executive Director, Schwarzman Center 2017-2018 Search Committee Member, Director, Yale Institute for Global Health 2017-2018 Faculty Advisory Committee, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library 2006-2012 Chair, Advisory Committee on Library Policy, Yale University Libraries 2011-2012 Executive Committee, Whitney Humanities Center 2010-2012 Chair, Search Committee, University Librarian 2010-2011 University Budget Committee 2010-2012 Chair, Search Committee, Director, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library 2010-2011 Chair, Search Committee, University Librarian 2009-2010 Committee on Majors, Yale College (Chair or Co-Chair, 2007-2010) 2005-2010 Chair, Graduate School Degree Committee for the Humanities 2006-2008, 2009-2010 Advisory Committee of the Division of the Humanities, Yale University 2009-2010 Humanities Tenure Appointments Committee, Yale University 2009-2010 Nominating Committee, ACLS New Faculty Fellows Program 2009-2010 Committee Chair, Wrexham Prize for Best Senior Essay in the Humanities 2008-2009 Selection Committee, John Addison Porter and Theron Rockwell Prizes for Scholarship 2008-2009 Search Committee, Librarian for Digital Humanities Research, Yale University Libraries 2008-2009 External Fellowship Selection Committee, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library 2007-2009 University Tribunal 2007-2008 Committee of Investigation, Faculty of Arts and Sciences 2007-2008 Pericles Lewis 11

ACADEMIC SERVICE, YALE COLLEGE, GRADUATE SCHOOL, AND UNIVERSITY-WIDE, CONTINUED Junior Appointments Committee, Italian Department 2006-2007 Executive Committee, Special Programs in the Humanities 2003-2007 Whiting Fellowship Mentor, Yale Graduate School 2005-2006 Working Group on Childcare, Women Faculty Forum 2004-2005 Prize Teaching Fellowships Selection Committee, Yale College 2003-2004

ACADEMIC SERVICE, COMPARATIVE LITERATURE DEPARTMENT, YALE UNIVERSITY (SELECTED) Graduate Student Admissions Committee (Chair, 2006-2010) 1998-2011 Director of Graduate Studies 2006-2010 Senior Appointments Committee 2005-2010 Graduate Student Liaison Committee 1998-2010 Curriculum Committee (Chair, 2000-2006) 1998-2008 Junior Appointments Committee 1999-2000, 2002-2004 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Literature Major 2000-2006

ACADEMIC SERVICE, ENGLISH DEPARTMENT, YALE UNIVERSITY (SELECTED) Graduate Admissions Committee 2009-2010, 2011-2012 Senior Hiring Committee in 20th-Century Literature (Chair, 2007-2008) 2007-2010 Senior Appointments Committee 2009-2010 Aims and Procedures Committee (Elected) 2002-2006, 2007-2008, 2009-2010 Junior Appointments Committee (Diversity Coordinator 2007-2010) 2000-2001, 2007-2008, 2009-2010 Graduate Studies Committee 2002-2004, 2006-2009 Job Placement Officer 2005-2006 Co-chair, Twentieth-Century Colloquium 2002-2006

OTHER ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY SERVICE Schwarzman Scholars Interview Committee, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University 2016-present Board of Integrated Programme Advisors, Hwa Chong Institution, Singapore 2016-present Editorial Board, Modernism/Modernity 2010-present Editorial Board, Modernist Networks 2010-present Referee, Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program, Harvard University 2009-present Editorial Board, New Books on Literature 19 2008-present Editorial Board, Modernist Cultures 2005-present Advisory Board, Center for Comparative Literature, National Tsing Hua University 2014-2018 Presidents’ Trust, Association of American Colleges & Universities 2014-2017 Referee, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant Program 2015 Judge, MediaCorp News Awards, Singapore 2014 Frenz Essay Prize Committee, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2006-2012 Finance Committee (Chair, 2009-2012), ACLA 2005-2012 Journals Committee (Chair), ACLA 2009-2010 Program Committee, Modernist Studies Association 2008-2009 Advisory Board, ACLA 2005-2009 Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access 2006-2007 Chair, Bernheimer Dissertation Prize Selection Committee, ACLA 2005-2006 Board of Directors, The Children’s Preschool, New Haven 2004-2007 Referee, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada research grants 2003-2004 Delegate Assembly, Modern Language Association of America (Elected) 2000-2002 Referee, Tenure and Promotion Cases (various); Book Manuscripts, Cambridge, Columbia, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, McGill-Queen’s, MIT, Ohio State, Oxford, and Yale University Presses Ongoing Referee, MLQ, Comparative Literature, Religion and Literature, and Forum Italicum Ongoing Pericles Lewis 12

ACADEMIC ADVISING

GRADUATE RESEARCH SUPERVISION Supervisor or co-supervisor of thirteen dissertations in English or Comparative Literature at Yale. Official reader of twenty additional dissertations at Yale in Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Literature, English, French, History, and Italian on the following topics: poison in Elizabethan tragedy, Jane Austen, minor characters in the nineteenth-century novel, realism in the French novel, nationalism and Mexican culture, realism and sexuality, realism and satire, modernism and the popular press, autonomy in modern literature, Japanese modernism, popular fiction and religion, dreams in modernist literature, urban experience in the novel, the essays of Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein and science, Gertrude Stein and Henry James, sexuality and modern drama, Dino Campana, postwar French literature, W. H. Auden and postmodern American poetry, law and literature. Supervisor of two post-doctoral research fellows; teaching mentor of one post-doctoral fellow. Occasional external reader for dissertations at other universities.

UNDERGRADUATE ADVISING First-year advisor for four Yale students per year for fourteen years to date. Advisor for sixty-five senior projects at Yale, on subjects including James, Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, Proust, Kafka, Evelyn Waugh, Jean Rhys, Samuel Beckett, James Baldwin, Doris Lessing, Giorgio Bassani, Kazuo Ishiguro, world war one poets, and literature and artificial intelligence. Second reader for twenty-six senior projects, on subjects including William Shakespeare, Honoré de Balzac, Henrik Ibsen, James, Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Joyce, Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, futurism, Heidegger, Mary Butts, Faulkner, modernist short fiction, detective fiction, nationalism, and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Mentor of a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow; supervisor of one senior project at Yale-NUS, on liberal arts education.

DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED (DIRECTOR OR CO-DIRECTOR) Sam Alexander, “Microcosmic Thinking: The Imagination of Scale in the Modern Novel” Now assistant professor of English, Endicott College Tobias Boes, “The Syncopated Self: Crises of Historical Experience in the Modernist Bildungsroman” Now associate professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of Notre Dame Michaela Bronstein, “Imperishable Consciousness” Now assistant professor of English, Stanford University Gregory Byala, “Samuel Beckett and the Problem of Beginning” Now assistant professor in instruction of English, Temple University Duncan Chesney, “Signs of Aristocracy in Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu” Now associate professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University Anthony Domestico, “Theologies of Crisis in British Literature of the Interwar Period” Now associate professor of English, State University of New York-Purchase College Maria Fackler, “A Portrait of the Artist Manqué: Form and Failure in the British Novel Since 1945” Now associate professor of English, Davidson College Colin Gillis, "Forming the Normal: Sexology and the Modern British Novel, 1890-1939" Leonardo Lisi, “Aesthetics of Dependency: Early Modernism and the Struggle against Idealism” Now associate professor of humanities, Johns Hopkins University Matthew Mutter, “Poetry against Religion, Poetry as Religion: Secularization in Literary Modernism” Now associate professor of English, Bard College Megan Quigley, “Modern Novels and Vagueness” Now associate professor of English, Villanova University Jesse Schotter, “The Hieroglyphic Imagination: Language and Visuality in Modern Fiction and Film” Now associate professor of English, Ohio State University Emily Setina, "Modernism’s Darkrooms: Photography and Literary Process" Now associate professor of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Pericles Lewis 13

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

COURSES TAUGHT (at Yale University except as noted) The Modern World in Literature and the Arts (seminar for Yale New Haven Teachers Institute) Directed Studies Literature (freshman seminar) Modernism in Literature and the Arts (freshman seminar and summer course) The European Tradition: Epic and Novel (freshman/sophomore seminar) Major English Poets: Chaucer to T. S. Eliot (year-long freshman/sophomore seminar) Introduction to Narrative (freshman/sophomore lecture and seminar) Introduction to the Theory of Literature (undergraduate/graduate lecture) Joseph Conrad and Southeast Asia (sophomore mini-course at Yale-NUS College) Modern Poetry (seminar at Yale-NUS College) Modernist London (summer course at Yale-in-London) Modern British Novel (undergraduate lecture) Modern European Novel (junior/senior seminar) Henry James and the Ethics of Storytelling (senior seminar) Consciousness and Modernity (senior seminar) James Joyce’s Ulysses (senior seminar and summer course) Modernist Fiction: The Seen and the Unseen (graduate seminar) Moderns, 1914 to 1926 (graduate seminar) Psychoanalysis and Literature (graduate seminar)

DIRECTED READING COURSES TAUGHT Henry James (undergraduate) Samuel Beckett (undergraduate) Marcel Proust (graduate) Aestheticism and Modernism in France and England (graduate) Realism and Modernism in the European Novel (graduate) Modernism and Intellectual History (3 graduate students, one undergraduate) Modernism in the British Novel (graduate, 4 students) Modernist Fiction (graduate, 4 students) Moderns (graduate, 1 student)

INTERVIEWS

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