Dylan Suher Curriculum Vitae He/his/him [email protected] dylansuher.com +852 9344 4837
University Address: Home Address: Room 4.19, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus 2 Norfolk Terrace, Apt. #7 The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong Wellesley, MA 02482
EDUCATION
Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, November 2020
Dissertation: “‘Getting Electrocuted’: Media and the Author in Postsocialist China” Committee: David Der-wei Wang (chair), Jie Li, Alexander Zahlten
A.M., East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, March 2016
A.B. summa cum laude, Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis, May 2010
Other Education
International Chinese Language Program, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Summer 2017
Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan, Summer 2015
Harvard Summer Program in Beijing, Beijing, China, Summer 2014
International Chinese Language Program, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011-12
TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERTISE modern Chinese literature, Chinese cinema and media studies, late-imperial Chinese literature (1500s-1800s), media theory, print culture, culture industries, Chinese popular culture, intellectual property, censorship, Maoism, modern Chinese history, modern East Asian history
PUBLICATIONS
Manuscripts in Submission
2021 “Other Worlds: From the Fannish Socialist Literature of Lu Yao to the Postsocialist Internet Literature of Maoni” (submitted to Modern Chinese Literature and Culture; currently under review)
2020 “Chinese Television at Midnight: Socialist Television Aesthetics in the People’s Republic of China during the Early Reform Era” (submitted to Journal of Chinese Cinemas; currently under review)
Essays
2021 [Chinese] “What Is the World of Literature?” [什麼是文學的世界？], trans. Chen Jingling, A New Literary History of Modern China 哈佛新編中國現代文學史, ed. David Der-wei Wang, Taipei: Maitian chubanshe, pp. 477–480
2019 “Love You Unconditionally—On Wang Shuo,” Asymptote (www.asymptotejournal.com)
2018 [Chinese] “The Forest for the Trees: On the Harvard New Literary History of Modern China’s Harvard Characteristics” [目不见睫：论哈佛《新编中国现代文学史》的哈佛特色], Research in Chinese Language and Literature 汉语言文学研究, 2018.2: 22-7
2017 Co-authored with Kyle Shernuk, “From the Margins to the Mainstream: A Tale of Two Wangs” in A New Literary History of Modern China, ed. David Der-wei Wang, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 934-40
2017 “If He Hadn’t Heard It Nothing Would Have Happened—On the Scholarship and Translations of Patrick Hanan,” Asymptote (www.asymptotejournal.com)
2017 “Superfluous Things: Ge Fei and the Chinese Tradition of Taste,” Vassar Review, 2017.2: 98- 100
2014 “Dylan Suher on Tao Lin and Murong Xuecun,” Asymptote (www.asymptotejournal.com)
Reviews
2020 “Lu Yao’s Life and the Chinese Dream,” Popula (www.popula.com)
2018 “Xiao Hong, Ma Bo’le’s Second Life,” Asymptote (www.asymptotejournal.com)
2018 “Eileen Chang, Little Reunions,” Asymptote (www.asymptotejournal.com)
2018 “Yeng Pway Ngon’s ‘Unrest,’” The White Review (http://www.thewhitereview.org)
2016 “Ji Xianlin's The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution,” Asymptote (www.asymptotejournal.com)
2015 “K'ung Shang-jen's The Peach Blossom Fan,” Asymptote (www.asymptotejournal.com)
2014 “Qiu Miaojin's Last Words from Montmartre,” Asymptote (www.asymptotejournal.com)
2013 “Mo Yan's Pow! and Sandalwood Death,” Asymptote (www.asymptotejournal.com)
2012 “Qian Zhongshu's Humans, Beasts and Ghosts,” Asymptote (www.asymptotejournal.com)
Translations
2017 Mo Yan, “Defending the Dignity of the Novel” in A New Literary History of Modern China, ed. David Der-wei Wang, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 930-3
2017 Qian Liqun, “The Cultural and Political Significance of Mao Zedong's Talks at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art” in A New Literary History of Modern China, ed. David Der-wei Wang, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 495-9
Interviews
2015 “An Interview with David Damrosch,” Asymptote (www.asymptotejournal.com)
2013 “An Interview with Can Xue [Interview and Translation],” Asymptote (www.asymptotejournal.com)
2012 “Cross it Out, Cross it Out, Cross it Out: Erasurist Poetry from Taiwan's Poetry Now (Issue #9, February 2012) [Interview and Translation],” Asymptote (www.asymptotejournal.com)
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
2020-23 Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, University of Hong Kong
2020-21 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania (declined)
2019-20 Graduate Student Associate, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
2019-20 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
2018-19 China Times Cultural Foundation Young Scholar Award, top prize winner
2017-18 Confucius Institute Sino-International Joint Research Fellowship, Fudan University
2017 Fairbank Center-Fudan International Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization Fellowship, Fudan University (declined)
2017 Taiwan Ministry of Education Summer Language Study Grant, International Chinese Language Program
2016 Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Summer Pre-Dissertation Research Grant, Harvard University
2015 Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies Graduate Summer Language Study Grant, Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies
2014 US Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Harvard Summer Program in Beijing
2011-12 Taiwan Ministry of Education Huayu Enrichment Scholarship, International Chinese Language Program
INVITED TALKS
2020 “Lust of the Machine: The Technologies and Traditions of YY Fiction,” READCHINA Virtual Lecture Series (Winter 20/21): Practices of Reading in the People’s Republic of China, University of Freiburg, December 15
2018 [Chinese] “最近西方媒介理论发展在分析当代中国文学的运用” [The Application of Recent Developments in Western Media Theory to the Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Literature,” invited talk for Shao Yanjun’s seminar, Peking University, April 10
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Panels Organized
2021 “Chinese Television in the Postsocialist Era: A Medium for Everyday Life,” Association for Asian Studies annual conference, March 23
2020 “Chinese Television in the Postsocialist Era: A Medium for Everyday Life,” Association for Asian Studies annual conference, Boston, MA., March 19 (cancelled due to COVID-19)
Papers Presented
2021 “Chinese Television at Midnight: Triumph at Midnight and the Birth of ‘Television-Style Television,’” Association for Asian Studies annual conference, March 23
2020 “Chinese Television at Midnight: Triumph at Midnight and the Birth of ‘Television-Style Television,’” Association for Asian Studies annual conference, Boston, MA. March 19 (cancelled due to COVID-19)
2019 “May Fourth’s Forgotten Territory: The Story of Chinese Film Literature,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, Seattle, WA, March 13
2017 “Televisual Samsara: Wang Shuo's Transmedia Aesthetic of the Everyday,” Association for Asian Studies annual conference, Toronto, ON, March 17
2016 “Toward a Trinitarianism of Wang Anyi: Wang Anyi's Early Nineties Fiction as Novels of Manners, as Social Realism, and as Database,” “Wang Anyi and Chinese Realism” conference, New York University, New York, NY, May 6
WORKSHOPS AND SYMPOSIA
2016 “All in the Family?: Local Dialect, National Culture, and Global Formats in A Dongbei Family,” “Sinophone Studies: New Directions” workshop, Harvard University, October 14
2014 “The Great China Database: Contemporary Chinese Fiction and the Technology of Representation,” “Unpacking China” workshop, Harvard University, April 25
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Washington—Tacoma
2019 (Spring) Modern China, Instructor of Record; Average Evaluation Score: 4.9/5
2018 (Fall) Modern East Asia, Instructor of Record; Average Evaluation Score: 4.3/5
Harvard University, Program in General Education
2017 (Spring) East Asian Religions, Teaching Fellow (Teaching Assistant); Course Head: James Robson; Average Evaluation Score: 4.1/5
2016 (Fall) Forbidden Romance in Modern China, Head Teaching Fellow (Teaching Assistant); Course Head: David Der-wei Wang; Average Evaluation Score: 4.2/5
2015 (Fall) Chinese Stories, Sole Teaching Fellow (Teaching Assistant); Course Heads: David Der-wei Wang and Wai-yee Li; Average Evaluation Score: 4.3/5
Harvard University, Other Teaching Experience
2016 (Fall) ChinaX Book Club: Five Novelists, Five Novels, Five Views of China (massive open online course), Content Editor and Teaching Assistant; Course Head: David Der-wei Wang
2016 (Fall) Senior Thesis Tutor, advised thesis on the relationship between Hollywood and the Chinese film industry
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2017 Conference assistant, East Asian Media Studies Conference
2014 Conference assistant, “Unpacking China” Workshop
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
2014-16 Assistant Editor, A New Literary History of Modern China (Harvard University Press)
2012-present Contributing Editor, Asymptote (journal focusing on literature in translation)
LANGUAGES
Mandarin Chinese: Fluent, certified TOCFL-Superior Level Classical Chinese: Proficient Japanese: Reading knowledge French: Reading knowledge Cantonese: Basic
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association Association for Asian Studies Society for Cinema and Media Studies
REFERENCES
David Der-wei Wang Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature Harvard University Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations 2 Divinity Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 496-0925 [email protected]
Jie Li John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities Harvard University Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations 2 Divinity Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 495-8371 [email protected]
Alexander Zahlten Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Harvard University Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations 2 Divinity Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 496-1391 [email protected]