Last Updated: September 22, 2021
Brian C. Bernards
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures University of Southern California Taper Hall of Humanities, THH 356 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0357 Phone: (213) 740-3706 Fax: (213) 740-9295 Email: [email protected]
ACADEMIC POSITIONS ▪ Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, March 2017-present ▪ Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California, August 2011-March 2017 ▪ Visiting Affiliate, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, July-August 2016 ▪ Fellowship Affiliate, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, August-December 2016 EDUCATION ▪ Ph.D. (Asian Languages & Cultures), University of California, Los Angeles, 2011 ▪ M.A. (Chinese Literature), Columbia University, 2005 ▪ B.A. (International Studies: Asia), B.A. (Chinese), University of Washington, 2002 Other Study ▪ Visiting Scholar, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 2008-09 ▪ Advanced Study of Thai Program, Chiang Mai University, Summer 2001 ▪ Chinese Language Program, Sichuan University, 1998-99 PUBLICATIONS Books ▪ Inter-Asian Cinema: Migrant Labor, Popular Culture, Tourism (in preparation). ▪ Translingual Micro-Affections: Sinophone Flash Fiction and Short Film in Southeast Asia (in preparation). ▪ The Inter-Asia Intermediality Reader. Co-edited with Elmo Gonzaga (in preparation). Brian Bernards Curriculum Vitae
▪ Sinophone Malaysian Literary Studies Reader. Co-edited with Khor Boon Eng (in preparation). ▪ Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015 / Singapore: NUS Press, 2016 (Southeast Asian edition). o Selected as Outstanding Academic Title for 2016 by Choice Reviews (American Library Association) o Longlisted for the International Convention of Asia Scholars Humanities Book Prize, 2017 (International Institute for Asian Studies) ▪ Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader. Co-edited with Shu-mei Shih and Chien-hsin Tsai. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Refereed Journal Articles ▪ “The Iridescent Corner: Sinophone Flash Fiction in Singapore.” Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature (under review). ▪ “Sinophone Meets Siamophone: Audio-Visual Intersubjectivity and Pirated Ethnicity in Midi Z’s Poor Folk and The Road to Mandalay.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 22, no. 3 (2021): 1-21. ▪ “Sinophonic Detours in Colonial Burma: Ai Wu’s Transborder Counterpoetics of Trespass.” Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature 18, no. 2 (2021): 456-78. ▪ “Mockumenting Migrant Workers: The Inter-Asian Hinterland of Eric Khoo’s No Day Off and My Magic.” positions: asia critique 27, no. 2 (2019): 297-332. ▪ “Questioning Asianist Autoethnography: Critical Aesthetics of Global Asia in Singapore’s National Gallery.” Periscope: Social Text Online (May 19, 2018): https://socialtextjournal.org/periscope_article/questioning-asianist-autoethnography- critical-aesthetics-of-global-asia-in-singapores-national-gallery/. ▪ “Reanimating Creolization through Pop Culture: Yasmin Ahmad’s Inter-Asian Audio- Visual Integration.” Asian Cinema 28, no. 1 (2017): 55-71. ▪ “From Diasporic Nationalism to Transcolonial Consciousness: Lao She’s Singaporean Satire, Little Po’s Birthday.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 26, no. 1 (2014): 1- 40. ▪ (in Chinese) “Bidirectional Hybridity: ‘Thaification’ in Cold War-Era Sinophone Thai Fiction” 雙向的混雜性：論冷戰時期泰華小說中的「泰化」. Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities 中山人文學報 35 (2013): 127-41. ▪ “Beyond Diaspora and Multiculturalism: Recuperating Creolization in Postcolonial Sinophone Malaysian Literature.” Postcolonial Studies 15, no. 3 (2012): 311-29. ▪ “Ambivalent Boundaries: Nanyang Chinese and Ethnic Violence in Borneo.” Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs 9, no. 1 (2009): 88-101. Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
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▪ “Sinophone Malaysian Literary Studies in the United States and Canada.” In Sinophone Malaysian Literary Studies Reader, edited by Khor Boon Eng and Brian Bernards (in preparation). ▪ “Ann Hui, Hainan, and the Sino-Vietnamese War: A Sinophone Inter-Asian Recasting of Boat People’s Transpacific Refugee Critique.” In Sinophone Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader, edited by Shu-mei Shih and Howard Chiang (under review). ▪ (in Chinese) “Plantation and Rainforest: Colonial Discourse and Nature Writing in the Works of Chang Kuei-hsing” 園坵與雨林：張貴興作品中的殖民話語和自然書寫. In Diaspora, Localism, and Sinophone Malaysian Literature 離散，本土與馬華文學論述, edited by Tee Kim Tong 張錦忠, 255-67. Kaohsiung, Taiwan: National Sun Yat-sen University Center for the Humanities 中山大學人文研究中心, 2019. ▪ “Malaysia as Method: Xiao Hei and Ethnolinguistic Literary Taxonomy.” In The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures, edited by Carlos Rojas and Andrea Bachner, 811-31. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. ▪ “Sinophone Literature.” In The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature, edited by Kirk A. Denton, 72-79. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. ▪ “Plantation and Rainforest: Chang Kuei-hsing and a South Seas Discourse of Coloniality and Nature.” In Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader, edited by Shu-mei Shih, Chien- hsin Tsai, and Brian Bernards, 325-38. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Book Introductions and Forewords ▪ “Discrepant Perspectives.” Part II Introduction to Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader, edited by Shu-mei Shih, Chien-hsin Tsai, and Brian Bernards, 125-30. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. ▪ “Sites and Articulations.” Co-written with Chien-hsin Tsai. Part III Introduction to Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader, edited by Shu-mei Shih, Chien-hsin Tsai, and Brian Bernards, 183-90. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Translations ▪ (from Chinese) Lim, Kien Ket. “Fang Xiu: A New View of Sinophone Malayan Literature’s Foundational Historian.” In Sinophone Malaysian Literary Studies Reader, edited by Khor Boon Eng and Brian Bernards (in preparation). ▪ (from Chinese) Ng, Kim Chew. “Sinophone/Chinese: ‘The South Where Language Is Lost’ and Reinvented.” In Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader, edited by Shu-mei Shih, Chien-hsin Tsai, and Brian Bernards, 74-92. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. ▪ (from Chinese) Wang, David Der-wei. “Post-Loyalism.” In Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader, edited by Shu-mei Shih, Chien-hsin Tsai, and Brian Bernards, 93-116. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Encyclopedia and Guidebook Entries
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▪ “Invisible Waves / Khamphiphaksa Khong Mahasamut.” In Thai Cinema: The Complete Guide, edited by Mary J. Ainslie and Katarzyna Ancuta, 88-89. London: I. B. Tauris, 2018. ▪ “Ploy.” Co-authored with Lalita Singhasri. In Thai Cinema: The Complete Guide, edited by Mary J. Ainslie and Katarzyna Ancuta, 89-91. London: I. B. Tauris, 2018. ▪ “Ng Kim Chew (黃錦樹) (1967–).” In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, edited by Stephen Ross. London: Routledge, 2016.
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▪ Collegium of University Teaching Fellowship, UCLA Office of Instructional Development, 2010-11 ▪ Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 2008-09 ▪ Pacific Rim Research Program Grant, University of California, 2008-09 ▪ Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship, UCLA Graduate Division, 2007-08 ▪ Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Award, UCLA Graduate Division, 2007 ▪ Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, UCLA International Institute, Summer 2006 ▪ President’s Graduate Fellowship, UCLA Graduate Division: 2005-06, 2009-10 TEACHING & STUDENT ADVISING University of Southern California New Courses Designed ▪ EALC 530, Race, Ethnicity, and Multiculturalism in East Asia ▪ COLT 512, Literary and Cinematic Translingualism and Translation ▪ EALC 358, Transnational Chinese Literature and Culture ▪ EALC / COLT 255, Southeast Asian Literature and Film ▪ EALC 150, Global Chinese Cinema and Cultural Studies ▪ GESM 120, Thai Literature and Popular Culture Courses Taught and Developed ▪ EALC 593: Teaching Practicum in East Asian Studies (Fall 2020, Fall 2021) ▪ EALC 553, Seminar in Chinese Literature (Fall 2015, Fall 2020) ▪ EALC 530, Race, Ethnicity, and Multiculturalism in East Asia (Spring 2013, Fall 2017) ▪ COLT 512, Literary and Cinematic Translingualism and Translation (Fall 2019, Fall 2021) ▪ EALC 505, Introduction to East Asian Languages and Cultures (Fall 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2017) ▪ EALC 499, Special Topics: “Theorizing Race in the Asia-Pacific” (Spring 2012) ▪ EALC 380, Cultural Topics in East Asian Literature (Spring 2013) ▪ EALC 358, Transnational Chinese Literature and Culture (Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2019) ▪ EALC / COLT 255, Southeast Asian Literature and Film (Fall 2018, Fall 2020) ▪ EASC 160, China and the World (Spring 2019, Spring 2020)
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▪ EALC 150, Global Chinese Cinema and Cultural Studies (Fall 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2021) ▪ GESM 120, Thai Literature and Popular Culture ▪ ARLT 100g/105g; GESM 120, Southeast Asian Literature and Film (Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2013, Spring 2016) Independent Studies Supervised ▪ EALC 588, Directed Readings: “Modern Chinese and Sinophone Literature” (Seoyeon Lee, Fall 2021) ▪ EALC 494, Honors Thesis: “Abroad in China Again: The Impact of Studying Abroad on Seeking Employment in China and What It Means for China’s Soft Power” (Betty Thai, Fall 2020-Spring 2021) ▪ CSLC 590, Directed Research: “The Modern Chinese Novel” (Xue Li, Fall 2018) ▪ EALC 490, Directed Research: “Readings in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction” (Michael O’Krent, Spring and Fall 2017) ▪ EALC 490, Directed Research: “The Translation and Film Adaptation of Yu Hua’s To Live” (Ava Nelson, Spring 2015) ▪ EALC/CSLC 590, Directed Research: “Readings in Sinophone Studies” (Yunwen Gao, Melissa Chan, Li-Ping Chen, Fall 2013) Graduate Advising (includes graduation/advancement year) ▪ Ph.D. Dissertation Advisor: o Ka Lee Wong (EALC), Li-Ping Chen (CSLC, 2020), Melissa Chan (EALC, 2019), Yunwen Gao (EALC, 2018), Gladys Mac (EALC, 2016) ▪ Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee: o Christopher Chien (American Studies & Ethnicity), Hayun Cho (EALC), Michelle Brittan Rosado (Lit & Creative Writing, 2019), Viola Lasmana (English, 2018), Keisha Brown (EALC, 2015), Nathaniel Heneghan (EALC, 2015), Yu-Kai Lin (CSLC, 2015), Brandon Som (Lit & Creative Writing, 2014) ▪ Chair, Ph.D. Qualifying Examination Committee: o Tiara Wilson (EALC), Seoyeon Lee (EALC), Lillian Ngan (EALC), Ka Lee Wong (EALC, 2018), Melissa Chan (EALC, 2016), Yunwen Gao (EALC, 2016) ▪ Member, Ph.D. Qualifying Examination Committee: o Xuejing Sun (EALC, 2021), Brooke McCallum (CSLC, 2020), Hayun Cho (EALC, 2020), Yifan Yang (Linguistics, 2019), Christopher Chien (American Studies & Ethnicity, 2018), Wooseok Kang (EALC, 2016), Li-ping Chen (CSLC, 2016), Michelle Brittan (English, 2015), Viola Lasmana (English, 2015), Gladys Mac (EALC, 2013), Haiwei Liu (EALC, 2013), Yu-kai Lin (CSLC, 2012) ▪ Chair, CSLC Ph.D. Major Field Examination Committee:
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o Zhuoran Deng (2020) ▪ Chair, M.A. Thesis Committee: o Tiara Wilson (EASC, 2021), Yuxuan Shao (EASC, 2020), Donald Collins (EASC, 2020), Ju-Yu Huang (EASC, 2015), Jier Dong (EASC, 2013) ▪ Member, M.A. Thesis Committee: o Yuwei Liu (EASC, 2021), Sui Wang (EASC, 2021), Yanchen Zhang (EASC, 2020), Nicole Chen (EASC, 2020), Jaewon Shin (EASC, 2019), Yanjin Chen (EASC, 2019), Megan Ong (EASC, 2018), Steven Stumph (EALC Progressive MA, 2018), Xuemeng Huang (EASC, 2017), Yunfei Shang (EASC, 2016), Xin Zhang (EASC, 2014), Xiaojun Yan (EASC, 2012), Carolyn Lee (EASC, 2012), Laura Yen (Political Science, 2012) Undergraduate Honors Thesis Advising (includes graduation year) ▪ Betty Thai (EALC, 2021), Mikaela Wolfsdorf (Global Studies, 2020), Julia van Zwieten (Global Studies, 2019), Michael O’Krent (COLT, 2018) University of California, Los Angeles Courses Taught and Developed ▪ Introduction to Postcolonial Southeast Asian Literatures: “National Identity and Minority Discourse” (Winter 2011) ▪ Teaching Asian Languages & Cultures at the College Level (Fall 2010) Courses Assisted ▪ Topics in Chinese Cinema: “Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema” (Prof. Robert Chi, Spring 2007) ▪ Elementary Modern Chinese Levels 1 and 2 (Prof. Michelle Fu-Smith, Fall 2006, Winter 2007) ACADEMIC CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS, & LECTURES Invited Lectures ▪ “Sinophone Meets Siamophone: Covert Migration, Pirated Ethnicity, and Audiovisual Intersubjectivity in Midi Z’s Thailand Films.” Global Asia in a Multipolar World Lecture Series, Arizona State University, March 2022. ▪ “The Iridescent Corner: Sinophone Flash Fiction in Singapore.” Between Mobility and Place-Making: The Worlds of Southeast Asia in Modern Chinese Literature. Lingnan Prism Symposium Series, Duke University / National University of Singapore, March 2021. ▪ “Sinophone Meets Siamophone: Audio-Visual Intersubjectivity and Pirated Ethnicity in Midi Z’s Poor Folk and The Road to Mandalay.” Levan Institute Working Group on Migration and Refugee Studies, USC, October 2020. ▪ “Ng Kim Chew.” Recorded for the Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC) Video Lecture Series, July 2020. https://u.osu.edu/mclc/video-lecture-series/.
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▪ “Worlds of Modern Chinese Literature: Genre, Gender, Generation.” US-China Institute Summer Residential Seminar, USC, August 2019. ▪ “Indigenous Apprenticeship: Amateurism and Colonial Affect in Umin Boya’s KANO.” LMU Department of Asian and Asian American Studies Speaker Series, Loyola Marymount University, April 2019. ▪ “Inter-Asian Intermedial Soft Power: Cinema, Pop Culture, Tourism.” Asia Intermedialities Workshop, Centre for Cultural Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 2018 (keynote). ▪ “Undocumented Migration and Pirated Ethnicity: Midi Z’s Siamophone Films.” Gatty Lecture Series, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, April 2018. ▪ “Francophone Caribbean Theory in Sinophone Literary Studies.” Sinophone Meets Francophone: Concepts and Controversies International Conference, Humboldt Universitat Zu Berlin Institute of Asian and African Studies, April 2018. ▪ “Spectacularizing the Racialized Body of Migrant Labor in Singapore: Tamil-Sinophone- Anglophone Translingualism in Eric Khoo’s My Magic.” Sinophone Cinemas Workshop, University of Washington, Seattle, October 2017. ▪ “Sinophonic Detours in Colonial Burma: Trekking South with Ai Wu, 1925-1931.” Sinophonic Detours Symposium, University of Oregon, Eugene, May 2017. ▪ “Re-inaugurating Modern Chinese Literature from Colonial Burma: Ai Wu’s Travels in the South.” Worlding Chinese Literature Conference, Duke University, Durham, NC, April 2017. ▪ “What Was Global About Nanyang Orientalism?” Aesthetics of Global Asia Conference (keynote). Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, June 2016. ▪ “Regional Cultures in China through Cinema.” DreamWorks Animation Studio, Glendale, CA, March 2014. ▪ “Imagining the Nanyang: On National Culture, Postcolonial Archipelagoes, and the Idea(s) of Southeast Asia.” Henry Luce Seminar on Transpacific Studies. USC Center for Transpacific Studies, October 2013. Conference Papers Presented ▪ “Sinophone Malaysian Literary Studies in North America.” International Conference of Sinophone Malaysian Literary Studies 马华文学研究国际学术研讨会. Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) Institute of Chinese Studies, Kampar, Malaysia, July- August 2021. ▪ “A Thai Winter Sonata: Inter-Asian Tourism and K-Drama Desire in Hello Stranger.” Inter-Asian Literature and Arts: A Research Workshop. Dartmouth, March 2021. ▪ “Sinophonic Detours and Trespasses in Colonial Burma: The Transborder Poetics of Ai Wu’s Travels in the South.” Chinese Literature across the Borderlands: A Workshop around the Forthcoming Special Issue of Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature. Organized by Faculty at Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth, Online via Zoom, November 2020.
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▪ “Sinophone Meets Siamophone: Audiovisual Intersubjectivity in Midi Z’s The Road to Mandalay.” AAS-in-Asia (Association for Asian Studies) Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, July 2019. ▪ “A Thai Winter Sonata: Inter-Asian Tourism and K-Drama Desire in Hello Stranger.” The Environments of Asian Cinemas: Asian Cinema Studies Society (ACSS) Conference, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, June 2019. ▪ “Ann Hui’s Sinophone Intervention in Vietnam’s Transpacific Legacy.” Sinophone Studies: Interdisciplinary Studies and Critical Reflections, UCLA-NTNU Taiwan Studies Initiative Conference, April 2019. ▪ “A Thai Winter Sonata: Cinematic Adaptation, Inter-Asian Tourism, and K-Drama Desire in Hello Stranger.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, January 2019. ▪ “Tamil-Sinophone Translingualism in Singapore’s Inter-Asian Hinterland: Migrant Worker Allegory in Eric Khoo’s My Magic.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, UCLA, March 2018. ▪ “Covert Videography, Undocumented Migration, Concealed Burmeseness: The Art of (Not) Being Represented in Midi Z’s Poor Folk.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New York, NY, January 2018. ▪ “Research Project Report on Imagined Horizons: The Multicultural Nationscapes of Inter-Asian Cinema.” Tenth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), Chiang Mai, Thailand, July 2017. ▪ “Yasmin Ahmad’s Film Dialogue: Reanimating Creolization through Pop Culture.” Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas/Southeast Asian Cinemas Research Network Los Angeles Symposium, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, UCLA, April 2017 (invited). ▪ “Cinematic Soft Power: Memorializing Taiwan’s Colonial History in Umin Boya’s KANO.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Chicago, March 2016. ▪ “Sinophone/Siamophone: Borderland Audioscapes and Covert Burmeseness in Midi Z’s Poor Folk.” Sinophone Studies: New Directions Conference. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 2016 (invited). ▪ “Borderland Audioscapes and Covert Burmese Migration in Midi Z’s Poor Folk.” Ninth Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference. University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus, Kuala Lumpur, July 2016. ▪ “A Sinophone New World Vision: Nanyang (South Seas) Literature and Southeast Asian Literary Studies.” UC Berkeley-UCLA Southeast Asian Studies Conference. Berkeley, CA, April 2016. ▪ “Research Project Overview of Imagined Horizons: The Multicultural Nationscapes of Inter-Asian Cinema.” SSRC Transregional Research Junior Scholar Fellowship Fellows Workshop. Duke University, Durham, NC, March 2016 (invited).
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▪ “The Sinophone Bookstore and the Malayan Kampong: Reassessing the Ruins of Depoliticization in Yeng Pway Ngon’s Novels.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Austin, TX, January 2016. ▪ “Creolization and ‘Interracial’ Malaysian Romance in Yasmin Ahmad’s Sepet (aka Chinese Eyes).” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Chicago, March 2015. ▪ “Satirizing Colonialism and Diaspora in Singapore: Lao She’s Children’s Novella, Little Po’s Birthday.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Vancouver, January 2015. ▪ “Summoning the Forgotten Creole Pioneers: ‘Interracial’ Malaysian Romance in Yasmin Ahmad’s Sepet.” Post-Asia Film: Media and Popular Culture Conference. Asian Cinema Studies Society / University of Macau Faculty of Social Sciences, July 2014. ▪ “‘Mockumenting’ the Foreign Domestic Worker: Genre, Social Commentary, and Multicultural Allegory in Eric Khoo’s No Day Off.” Eighth Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference. Thai Film Archive, Salaya, Thailand, July 2014. ▪ “Malaysia as Method: Xiao Hei and the Question of Ethno-Linguistic Literary Taxonomy.” Remapping a Discipline: Modern Chinese Literary Studies. Duke University, Durham, NC, April 2014 (invited). ▪ “Revisiting A Day in Malaya: Yu Dafu and Sinophone Literature in the Colonial Nanyang.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Philadelphia, March 2014. ▪ “Writing the Borneo Rainforest: Eco-poetic Sinophone Modernism.” Forests, Waters, and Cities: Approaches to the Environment in Japan and Global Contexts. An Interdisciplinary Symposium. University of Southern California, March 2013 (invited). ▪ “Migrating Multilingualism: Documenting Foreign Workers in Singaporean Cinema.” Association for Chinese and Comparative Literature Conference on Global Sinophonia, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, December 2012. ▪ “Writing the Borneo Rainforest: Ecocritical Views from Taiwan.” Frames of Taiwan Workshop, University of Texas-Austin, April 2012 (invited). ▪ “Undocumented Multilingualism: Voicing the Foreign Worker in Contemporary Singaporean Cinema.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Toronto, March 2012. ▪ “Sino-Thai Literature: Assimilation, Biculturalism, Translingual Creolization.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Seattle, January 2012. ▪ “Malaysian Postcolonialism and Sinophone Transnationalism: Literary Perspectives.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, November 2011. ▪ “在台: The Taiwan(ese)ness of Sinophone Malaysian Literature.” Tenth International Conference for Junior Scholars on Sinology: Taiwan as Hub for Transculturation across the Pacific, University of California, San Diego, August 2011.
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▪ “Beyond the Confines of Ethnic Communalism: Reviving Nanyang in Sinophone Singaporean Literature.” Association for Asian Studies – International Convention of Asia Scholars Joint Meeting, Honolulu, March-April 2011. ▪ “Racializing the Mother Tongue: Translingual Politics in Anglophone and Sinophone Singaporean Literatures.” The Annual Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, California State University, Northridge, October 2010. ▪ “Roving without Bounds: Forging Lyrical Frontiers in Du Yunxie’s Wartime Poetry on Southeast Asia.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Albuquerque, October 2010. ▪ “Beyond Multiculturalism and Diaspora: Recuperating Sinophone Malaysian Creolization.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, April 2010. ▪ “Plantation and Rainforest: The Language of Coloniality and Nature in Sinophone Malaysian Literature.” China Undisciplined Graduate Student Conference, University of California, Los Angeles. May 2008. ▪ “Teochew Monologue, Bangkok Narrative: Contemporary Sino-Thai Fiction.” Eleventh Annual Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Student Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 2008. ▪ “From the Well of the Rainforest: Zhang Guixing’s Sarawak-based Imagination.” Fifth International Convention of Asia Scholars, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 2007. ▪ “Dynamics of Resonance: The Rough Middle Ground of Individuality and Globalization.” Second Annual Asia-Pacific Seminar, Soka University, Anaheim, California, May 2006. ▪ “Images of Nanyang, the ‘South Seas’: Southeast Asia in ‘World’ Chinese Literature.” Eighth Annual Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Student Symposium, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, April 2006. Conferences, Lectures, and Other Events Organized ▪ Co-hosting and co-organizing (with Elmo Gonzaga) “Inter-Asia Intermediality: A Two- Part International Workshop.” Co-sponsored by the University of Southern California (EALC, EASC, and the Center for Transpacific Studies) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Department of Cultural and Religious Studies), Los Angeles and Hong Kong, May and June 2022. ▪ Hosted and organized “Multisensory Dissent and Alliance Building: The Inaugural Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies.” Sponsored by the Society of Sinophone Studies, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the East Asian Studies Center, and the Center for Transpacific Studies, University of Southern California, April 2021. ▪ Hosted and organized “Sex Work, Media Networks and Transpacific Histories of Affect: A Talk by Lily Wong.” University of Southern California, April 2019.
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▪ Hosted and organized Paradox screening, followed by Q&A with Executive Producer & CEO of Sun Entertainment Culture, Alex Dong, USC School of Cinematic Arts Outside the Box (Office), August 2018. ▪ Hosted and organized “Reaffirming or Resisting? Sinophone and Malay Literary Responses to Malaysia’s Dominant Discourse: A Lecture by Khor Boon Eng.” University of Southern California, September 2017. ▪ Hosted and organized “The Ancient Art of Falling Down – Vaudeville Cinema Between Hollywood and China: A Conversation between Christopher Rea and Henry Jenkins.” University of Southern California, March 2016. ▪ Hosted “At the Fringes of the Color Line – Re-Examining the One-Drop Rule Through the Transpacific Crossings of Chinese-White Biracials, 1912-1942: A Talk by Emma Jinhua Teng.” University of Southern California, February 2015. ▪ Hosted “Screening of Two Films from Macau: Roulette City & Returnees, Followed by Q&A with Writer/Director/Actor Thomas Lim,” USC Rosen Family Theatre, January 2015. ▪ Organized (with Duncan Williams and Velina Hasu Houston) “Critical Mixed Race Studies: A Transpacific Approach,” Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, University of Southern California, 2013-14. ▪ Co-organized “War and Theory,” Third Annual Asia-Pacific Seminar, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 2007. Panels and Roundtables Organized or Chaired ▪ Co-organizing Seminar on “Intermediality and the Transboundary in South and Southeast Asia.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2022. ▪ Panel Chair and Organizer: “Translingual Postcoloniality and Intersectional Alliance.” Multisensory Dissent and Alliance Building: The Inaugural Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies, University of Southern California, April 2021. ▪ Roundtable Chair and Organizer: “Southeast Asian Diasporic Authors in Conversation.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Seattle, WA, January 2020. ▪ Panel Chair and Organizer: “Transmedia Engagement and the Performance of Place in Southeast Asia.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Seattle, WA, January 2020 (accepted). ▪ Panel Chair and Organizer: “Southeast Asian Textual Transactions and Translations.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, January 2019. ▪ Panel Chair: “Choices and Nostalgias.” Sinophone Meets Francophone: Concepts and Controversies International Conference, Humboldt Universitat Zu Berlin Institute of Asian and African Studies, April 2018. ▪ Roundtable Chair and Organizer: “Keywords of the Sinophone Revolution.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Toronto, March 2016.
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▪ Panel Organizer: “Translingual Ecologies: Oceanic and Migratory Approaches to Southeast Asian Literature.” UC Berkeley-UCLA Southeast Asian Studies Conference. Berkeley, CA, April 2016. ▪ Panel Chair and Organizer: “(Trans)National Southeast Asian Cinemas and (Post)Asian Multiculturalisms.” Post-Asia Film: Media and Popular Culture Conference. Asian Cinema Studies Society / University of Macau Faculty of Social Sciences, July 2014. ▪ Panel Chair: “Receptions.” Eighth Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference. Thai Film Archive, Salaya, Thailand, July 2014. ▪ Roundtable Organizer: “Critical Conversations in Sinophone Studies: A Roundtable Featuring Pema Tseden, Tibetan Author and Filmmaker.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, San Diego, March 2013. ▪ Roundtable Organizer: “Critical Debates in Sinophone Postcolonial Studies: Where Do We Go Now?” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Boston, January 2013. ▪ Panel Chair: “Contemporary Poetry in the Sinophone Communities.” Association for Chinese and Comparative Literature Conference on Global Sinophonia, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, December 2012. Invited Discussant or Respondent ▪ Roundtable Respondent: “Southeast Asian Performance and Its Publics.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC, January 2022 (accepted). ▪ Closing Forum Respondent: “To Taiwan Studies.” Keywording Taiwan: The 26th Annual Conference of the North American Taiwan Studies Association. University of California, Irvine, May 2021. ▪ Roundtable Respondent: “Global Asias: Institutional Views.” Verge Global Asias Initiative Cyber Chat #3, Penn State University, January 2021. ▪ Roundtable Respondent: “Southeast Asian Literary and Cultural Studies: Navigating the Job Market. Zoom Mentoring Session, Vanderbilt University, July 2020. ▪ Roundtable Respondent: “When Crazy Rich Asians Meets Global Hollywood: Debating the Diversity Discourse in an Asian American Romantic Comedy.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, March 2019. ▪ Discussant: “Speaking of Resistance: Reclaiming Identity from the Margins.” Resistance Reimagined: A Graduate Student Symposium, East Asian Languages and Cultures. USC, Los Angeles, September 2018. ▪ Discussant: “Imaginary Cartography of the Colonized Mind: Nambang Discourse and Tropical Melody in Transwar Korean Popular Music,” by Yongwoo Lee. Empire of Others Conference, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, March 2017. ▪ Roundtable Respondent: “Keywords of the Sinophone Revolution.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Toronto, March 2016. ▪ Roundtable Respondent: “Singapore and Malaysia as Method.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Austin, TX, January 2016.
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▪ Q&A Discussant for Fishing Luck Film Screening. Taiwan Academy, Taiwan Ministry of Cultures Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Los Angeles, October 2015. ▪ Q&A Discussant for KANO Film Screening. Taiwan Academy, Taiwan Ministry of Cultures Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Los Angeles, July 2015. ▪ Roundtable Respondent: “Taiwan Films in Retrospect: Home Sweet Home (1970).” USC, Los Angeles, May 2015. ▪ Discussant: “Decentralizing Narratives: Depictions of Alterity and Otherness.” Memory, Moment, and Mobility in East Asia: East Asian Languages and Cultures Graduate Student Conference. USC, Los Angeles, April 2015. ▪ Roundtable Respondent: “Remapping a Discipline: Modern Chinese Literatures.” Duke University, Durham, NC, April 2014. ▪ Discussant: “Space, Science Fiction, and the Absent Body in SF Magazine Covers, 1959- 1969,” by Kathryn Page-Lippsmeyer. USC Visual Studies Institute Objects of Knowledge Lecture Series, USC, Los Angeles, March 2014. ▪ Discussant: “Mixed ‘Race’ in Southeast Asia? Racial Theories in Competing Empires.” Critical Mixed-Race Studies: A Transpacific Approach. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, University of Southern California, October 2013. ▪ Discussant: “New Visions on the Silver Screen: Films from Korea, China, and Taiwan.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, November 2011. ▪ Discussant: “East Asian Visual Media at Home and Abroad.” Media and Culture in Contemporary China. USC and UCLA, Los Angeles, October 2011. ▪ Discussant: “Using Language.” Third Annual China Undisciplined Graduate Student Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, May 2010. ▪ Discussant: “Translating Modernity.” China Undisciplined Graduate Student Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, May 2008. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Service to the Field ▪ Program Director, Society of Sinophone Studies (SSS), 2019- ▪ Academic Journal Advisory Board Member, Verge: Studies in Global Asias (Penn State), 2019-2020 ▪ Forum Chair, CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum, Modern Language Association (2019-2020) ▪ Executive Committee Member, CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum, Modern Language Association (2017- ) o Speaker, “Teaching Southeast Asian Literature” Forum, July 2021 ▪ Academic Journals, Blind Reviewer of Submissions to: PMLA (Modern Language Association), Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (Ohio State), Asian Cinema
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(Intellect), Journal of Chinese Cinemas (Intellect), Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (Routledge), Comparative Literature Studies (Penn State), Frontiers of Literary Studies in China (Brill), Southeast Asia Research (SAGE), Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education (Taylor and Francis), Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (U of Alberta) ▪ Manuscripts, Blind Reviewer: Columbia University Press University and Departmental Service ▪ Director of Undergraduate Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, 2019-present ▪ Interim Co-Director and Steering Committee Member, Center for Transpacific Studies, 2018-present ▪ Member, Teaching and Curriculum Committee, East Asian Languages and Cultures, 2018- ▪ Member, Dornsife Faculty Council Tenure-Track Caucus, 2019-2020 ▪ Member and Diversity Liaison, Search Committee for Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Premodern Chinese Literature and Culture, East Asian Languages and Cultures, 2019- 2020 ▪ Elected Representative, Dornsife Faculty Council, 2017-2018 and 2018-2019: o Chair, Tenure-Track Caucus, 2018-2019 o Member, Research, Policies, and Documentation Caucus, 2017-2018 ▪ Outside Member and Diversity Liaison, Search Committee for Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Transpacific Asian American Studies, American Studies and Ethnicity, 2018-2019 ▪ Faculty Evaluator, Ph.D. Enhancement Fellowships, USC Graduate School, 2019 ▪ Chair, Departmental Tenure and Promotion Committee for Dr. Jenny Chio, East Asian Languages and Cultures, 2018 ▪ Guest speaker, CIS-EASC-KSI Graduate Series Panel on Professional Dissertation Writing and Research, October 2018 ▪ Chair, Search Committee for Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Media Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, 2017-2018 ▪ Special Introductory Guest Lecturer on Thai History and Culture, USC Trojan Scholars Society’s The King and I at Pantages Theatre Event, January 2017 ▪ Member, Graduate Studies Committee, USC East Asian Languages and Cultures, 2011- 2012, 2013-2014, 2016-2017 ▪ Member, Search Committee for Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Modern Japanese Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultures, 2016-2017 ▪ Evaluator, Master’s Degree Applicants to the USC East Asian Studies Program, Spring 2015
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▪ Member, Panel for Selecting the Chair Consultative Committee, USC East Asian Languages and Cultures, Fall 2013 ▪ Evaluator, Postdoctoral and Dissertation Research Fellowships, Critical Mixed-Race Studies: A Transpacific Approach. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, January 2013 ▪ Invited Faculty Panelist, Living and Working in Singapore, USC Singaporean Student Association, February 2013 ▪ Note-taker of EALC Faculty Meeting Minutes, USC, October 2012-May 2016 ▪ Faculty Interviewer, USC Dornsife Trustee and Presidential Scholarship Applicants, Spring 2012, Spring 2015 ▪ EALC Faculty Marshal for Commencement Ceremonies, USC, May 2012 ▪ Special Guest on USC Student Television News Program, Trojan Vision’s “Daily SCene,” April 2012 ▪ Faculty Evaluator & Interviewer, USC Fulbright Student Grant Applications, Fall 2011, Fall 2013 ▪ Invited Faculty Participant, Roundtable Discussion: On Track to Tenure Track, USC Graduate and Academic Student Senate Academic Affairs Committee, Fall 2011 ▪ EALC Faculty Marshal for New Student Convocation, USC, August 2011 FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRAINING ▪ Chinese (Mandarin): fluent, primary research language ▪ Thai: fluent, secondary research language ▪ French: intermediate, reading proficient ▪ Malay/Indonesian: rudimentary reading and speaking PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS ▪ Association for Asian Studies (AAS) ▪ Modern Language Association (MLA) ▪ Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) ▪ American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) ▪ Association for Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL) ▪ Asian Cinema Studies Society (ACSS) ▪ Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas (ASEAC) ▪ Society of Sinophone Studies (SSS)
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