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Books

Chinese Shakespeares: A Century of Cultural Exchange Chinese Shakespeares: A Century of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009)

Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia and Cyberspace
Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia and Cyberspace, co-edited with Charles Ross (Purdue University Press, 2009)

 

Journal Special Issues

Asian Theatre Journal Asian Theatre Journal, tentatively scheduled for 2010
Call for Papers

Film Review Cluster, Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation, tentatively scheduled for Spring 2009

 

Refereed Journal Articles

"Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents: The Dialectics between the Global and the Local in Lao She's Fiction." MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly, 69. 1 (March 2008): 97-118.
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"Gao Xingjian, Exile, and Intercultural Theatre." Hong Kong Drama Review 7 (2007): 507-513.
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"Shakespearean Localities and the Localities of Shakespeare Studies." Shakespeare Studies 35 (2007): 186-204
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"Asian Shakespeares in Europe: From the Unfamiliar to the Defamiliarised." Shakespearean International Yearbook 8 (2008): 51-70
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"Shakespeare, Performance, and Autobiographical Interventions." Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism and Scholarship 24. 2 (Summer 2006): 31-47
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"Impersonation, Autobiography, and Cross-Cultural Adaptation: Lee Kuo-Hsiu's Shamlet." Asian Theatre Journal 22.1 (Spring 2005): 122-137
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Modern Language QuarterlyShakespeare BulletinShakespearean International YearbookArchiv fuer das Studium neueren Sprachen und LiteraturenShakespeareShakespeare StudiesTheatre Journal

 

Refereed Book Chapters

"Shakespeare bunt geschminkt: Die chinesische Shakespeare-Werkstatt." Lebendige Erinnerung -- Xiqu: Zeitgenössische Entwicklungen im chinesischen Musiktheater, hrsg. Tian Mansha and Johannes Odenthal (Berlin: Verlag Theater der Zeit, 2006), pp. 156-165
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"The Ethnographic Impulse of 'Local' Reading." In ‘Re-Playing’ Shakespeare: Performance in Asian Theatre Forms, ed. Poonam Trivedi and Minami Ryuta (London: Routledge)
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"Shamlet: Shakespeare as a Palimpsest." Shakespeare Without English: The Reception of Shakespeare in Non-anglophone Countries, ed. Sukanta Chaudhuri and Chee Seng Lim (Pearson Longman, 2006), pp. 21-45
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Comparative Literature StudiesEncyclopedia of Asian TheatreErinnerungBoundary,Shakespeare without EnglishChina Review InternationalChung Wai Wen Hsueh

 

Review Essays

"The Politics of Recognition and Comparative Literature." CLC Web: Journal of Comparative Literature and Culture 8.4 (December, 2006).
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Performance Reviews

"Review of David Tse's King Lear, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon." Shakespeare: The Journal of the British Shakespeare Association 3. 2 (August 2007): 239-242
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"Review of Yellow Earth's King Lear." Theatre Journal 58. 3 (October 2007): 494-495.

 

Encyclopedia Articles

"Introduction: Modern Taiwanese Theatre." Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre, ed. Samuel Leiter (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007).

   * Outstanding Academic Title of 2007 by Choice
   
* Outstanding Reference by the American Library Association, 2008

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Book Reviews

Buchbesprechung: Murray Leviths Shakespeare in China, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 245 (2008), forthcoming, in German.

"Jerome Silbergeld's Hitchcock with a Chinese Face: Cinematic Doubles, Oedipal Triangles, and China’s Moral Voice." China Review International 13. 2.

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Selected Grants & Awards:

2008, Folger Institute Grant

2006, International Shakespeare Association Travel Grant

2005, Penn State University Institute for Arts and Humanities Faculty Research Grant

2003, Folger Institute Grant (for participation in a Folger workshop)

2004 Association of Asian Performance Emerging Scholar Award

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Conference Participation (Abbreviated)

     Papers forthcoming:

MLA (Modern Language Association), San Francisco, December 27-30, 2008
"Untranslating Shakespeare: Mediatized Audience and Vernacular Politics." Panel convened by Margaret Higonnet

MLA, San Francisco, December 27-30, 2008
Forum Speaker: "'Doing Anything for a Laugh'? Mo Yan and the Question of Humor in China"

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     Papers delivered:

Renderings: Shakespeare Across Continents, Nottingham University Ningbo, China, 10-12 September 2008
"Shakespeare, Visuality, and East Asian Alterity"

AAS (Association of Asian Studies), Atlanta, April 3-6, 2008
"Individual and Collective Subjectivity in Qian Zhongshu and Lao She"

SAA (Shakespeare Association of America), Dallas, March 13-15, 2008
"'Shaped for Sportive Tricks': Richard III, Children's Games, and the Global Vernacular"

MLA, Chicago, December 27-30, 2007
"Familial Fortresses: Fortress Besieged and Raise the Red Lanterns"

ATHE (Association of Theatre in Higher Education), New Orleans, July 26-29, 2007.
Rundtable on the Centennial of Chinese Spoken Drama

MLA, Philadelphia, December 27-30, 2006
"Cyber Shakespeares: Mediating and Mediatizing the New Audiences"

VIII. WSC (World Shakespeare Congress), Brisbane, Australia, July 21-26, 2006
“The Ethics of Appropriation.” In the Research Seminar "Brave Old World."
Conference Program

AAS, San Francisco, April 6-9, 2006
“After Occidentalism: Gao Xingjian and 'Cold Literature.'”

ShInE--Shakespeare in Europe, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, 17-20 November 2005
"Rehearsing Hamlet: Wilhelm Meister and His Roles"

ACLA, Penn State University, March 11-13, 2005
“Late Imperial China and Its Invention of the West”

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     Panels chaired and conferences organized:

SAA, San Diego, April 5-7, 2007
Seminar co-leader, Advanced Research Seminar: "Shakespeare, Performance, and the Ethical"

AAS, San Francisco, April 6-9, 2006
Chair and co-organizer, "Found in Translation: Rethinking the Foreign in East Asian Modernities"

VIII. WSC (World Shakespeare Congress), Brisbane, Australia, July 21-26, 2006
Chair and co-organizer, “Brave Old Worlds: Shakespeare in East Asia,” co-sponsored by the International Shakespeare Association.
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ACLA, Penn State, March 11-13, 2005
Chair and co-organizer, Research Seminar: "Performing Imperialism and Cultural Otherness in Modern East Asia."

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Invited Lectures (Abbreviated)

SOAS, University of London, March 13, 2008
"Untralsnating China: Cosmopolitanism and Autobiographical Intervention."

Cornell University Society for the Humanities
"Locality and Performative Translation." February 28, 2006

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main Inaugural Conference of Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies, November 13-15, 2008.
"Cultural Power of an Alternative Shanghai and Dystopian Locality."

Universität Heidelberg, June 20, 2008.
"Inter-media Studies and Literary Globalism."

WPSU-TV Lobby Talks with Actors from the London Stage, aired on November 15 and 18, 2007.
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TV interview, Pennsylvania Inside Out, aired on October 29, 2007. <Video Online>

Plenary Presentation. Shakespeare Society of Japan annual meeting, Waseda University, Tokyo
"How to Do Things with Asian Shakespeares: Liminality, Alterity, Authenticity." October 7, 2007

Rutgers University
"In States Unborn and Accents Yet Unknown? Envisioning 'Asia' and 'Shakespeare'," Shakespeare in East Asia: A Conference at Rutgers, April 14, 2007 Details

HPAIR, Singapore
Two lectures and workshops on transnational cinema and theatre, Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations, August 18-19, 2006 Details

Tsinghua University, Beijing
"Performing Globalism: Shakespeare in the World," Invited Lecture, June 2, 2005

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Service to the Profession:

     International and National:

Reviewing manuscripts for universitiy presses and journals, participation in digital humanities projects, external reader for doctoral dissertations. More...

     University, College, and Departmental:

Advisory board member (Migration Studies Project), committee service, Renaissance reading group (now Early Period Studies Group), advisor for M.A. and Ph.D. students, Education Abroad liaison. More...


Professional Affiliations:

Modern Language Association(MLA)
Association of Asian Studies (AAS)
Shakespeare Association of America (SAA)
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)

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