Prof. Alexander Huang

Exhibition

Video curator, Imagining China, Folger Library, Washington, D.C., September 17, 2009 ~ January 9, 2010 (curator: Timothy Billings)

Upcoming

Asian Theatre Journal Special Issue

MLA 2009; Panel: "Humor, Trauma, and Histories of East Asia"

Asian Shakespeares on Screen: Two Films in Perspective, special issue of Borrowers and Lenders

Digital Humanities Projects

Shakespeare Performance in Asia (SPiA), part of the MIT Shakespeare Electronic Archive
GloPAD, Global Performing Arts Database
Asian Shakespeares: A Visuals Database
Stanford Shakespeare in Asia
Links to Global Shakespeare Adaptations

Call for Papers (past)

MLA, Philadelphia, December 27-30, 2009
     "Humor, Trauma, and Histories of East Asia"
BSA, London, September 11-13, 2009
     "Asian Shakespeares in Europe"
AAP, New York, August 6-7, 2009
     "Tears and Laughter in Asian Comedy"
AAS, Chicago, March, 2009
     "Parodic China: Subversion and Mockery in Modern Chinese Entertainment Culture"
AAS, Atlanta, April 4-6, 2008
    "Familial and Cultural Circuits of Chinese Literary Identities"
ATHE, New Orleans, July 26-29, 2007
     Roundtable: "Remembering Shakespeare and Post/colonial Asia"
SAA, San Diego, April 5-7, 2007
     "Shakespeare, Appropriation, and the Ethical."
WSC, Brisbane, July 21-26, 2006
     "Brave Old Worlds: Shakespeare Production and Reception in East Asia."
AAS, San Francisco, April 6-9, 2006
     "Found in Translation: Rethinking the Foreign in East Asian Modernities."
ACLA, Penn State, March 11-13, 2005
     "Performing Imperialism and Cultural Otherness in Modern East Asia"
Shakespeare in Asia International Conference
     Stanford University, April 1-4, 2004

Research Projects

Shakespearean Orients, Early Modern to Postmodern
Reconfigured Localities: Translation, Transnationalism, Travel
Dressing Up for the Part: Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre as a Performance of Hamlet
Lu Xun and the Invention of the "Tragic" in Modern Chinese Literature
Wartime Shakespeare on Stage and Screen
Performing Cultural Otherness in Early Modern England
The Dialectic betwee the Local and the Global in Lao She's Fictions

Pedagogy Projects

Reference Website for Prof. Huang's Film & Literature Courses
Transcultural Asia: Literary & Visual Cultures of Asia and the Asian Diaspora
POCI: Proficiency-Oriented Chinese Instruction
PSU Summer Program in Shanghai

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