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Brian C. Bernards 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 Page 2 of 16 Brian Bernards Curriculum Vitae ▪ “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 Page 3 of 16 Brian Bernards Curriculum Vitae ▪ “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. <https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/ng-kim-chew-1967> Book Reviews ▪ Liew Khai Khiun and Stephen Teo, eds., Singapore Cinema: New Perspectives (2017), reviewed in Asian Cinema 31, no. 1 (2020): 121-26. ▪ Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, Michelle Yeh, and Ming-ju Fan, eds., The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan (2014), reviewed in The Journal of Asian Studies 75, no. 3 (2016): 803-5. ▪ E.K. Tan, Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World (2013), reviewed in Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 35 (2013): 233-36. ▪ Hu Fayun, Such Is This [email protected] (2011), reviewed in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, 2011: http://u.osu.edu/mclc/book-reviews/such-is-this/. FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS & GRANTS ▪ Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences (ASHSS) Research Grant, USC Office of the Provost, 2020-21 ($25,000) ▪ Transregional Research Junior Scholar Fellowship: InterAsian Contexts and Connections, Social Science Research Council (SSRC) InterAsia Program, 2016-17 ($30,000) ▪ Alfred S. Raubenheimer Award for Outstanding Contributions in Research, Teaching and Service, USC Dornsife, 2015 ▪ Modern Language Initiative (MLI) First Book Subvention Grant, 2015 ($9,015) ▪ Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences (ASHSS) Research Grant, USC Office of the Provost, 2014-15 ($18,680) ▪ USC Dornsife General Education Teaching Award for ARLT 105g, “Southeast Asian Literature and Film,” 2013-14 ▪ Sawyer-Mellon Seminar Grant for the Comparative Study of Cultures, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2013-14 (Co-PI with Duncan Williams and Velina Hasu Houston): Critical Mixed Race Studies: A Transpacific Approach ($175,000 to support full academic-year funding for one postdoctoral fellow and two USC dissertation research fellowships) ▪ UC Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA Graduate Division, 2010-11 ▪ Asia Institute Graduate Fellowship, UCLA Asia Institute, 2010-11 Page 4 of 16 Brian Bernards Curriculum Vitae ▪ 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
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