Ausgewählte Publikationen

Buchpublikationen

Chinese Shakespeares: A Century of Cultural Exchange

Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009); Taschenbuch und gebundene Ausgabe.

Sample pages from prologue and chapter 1 (PDF file, 3.9 MB)
Online video archive: Shakespeare Performance in Asia


Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia and Cyberspace, co-edited with Charles Ross (Purdue University Press, forthcoming late 2009).
Class, Boundary, and Social Discourse in the Renaissance, co-edited with I-chun Wang and Mary Theis (Kaohsiung, Taiwan: Center for Humanities and Social Sciences and the College of Liberal Arts, National Sun Yat-sen University, 2007).

 

Editorial Projects

Asian Theatre Journal Asian Theatre Journal special issue, tentatively scheduled for 2010
Encyclopedia of Shakespeare

Illustrations Editor, The Shakespeare Encyclopedia. 5 vols. Ed. Patricia Parker. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press (in press).  Also contributed 11 articles, 26 pp.


Film Review Cluster, Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation (in press)


Refereed Journal Articles 

"Mo Yan as Humorist." World Literature Today 83.4 (2009): 32-35.
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"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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"Site-Specific Hamlets and Reconfigured Localities: Jiang'an, Singapore, Elsinore." The Shakespearean International Yearbook 7 (2007): 22-48.
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"Romeo and Juliet, Allegory, and the Ethnic Vocabularies of History." Shakespeare Studies: Journal of the Japanese Shakespeare Society 46 (2008): 6-19.
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"Lin Shu, Invisible Translation, and Politics." Perspectives: Studies in Translatology 14. 1 (2006): 55-65
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The Politics of an ‘Apolitical’ Shakespeare: A Chinese-Soviet Joint Venture, 1950-1979.” Borrowers & Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 1.2 (Fall/Winter, 2005)
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"Where Is Shakespeare? Locality and Performative Translation." Ilha do Desterro: Revista de Língua Inglesa, Literaturas em Inglês e Estudos Culturais 49 (Florianópolis, S.C., Brasil: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Depto. de Língua e Literatura Anglo-Americanas), eds. J. R. O'Shea and D. L. Guimarães & S. A. Baumgärtel (Jul / Dez 2005): 255-264 (ISSN: 0101-4846)

Shakespeare and the Visualization of Metaphor in Two Chinese Versions of Macbeth.” CLC Web: Journal of Comparative Literature and Culture 6.1 (2004)
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"Ershiyi shiji Sha ju yanchu xinmao: Lun Wu Hsing-kuo de Li'er zaici [Small-time Shakespeare: New Faces of Twenty-first Century Chinese Performance]." Chung-wai Wen-hsueh [Chung Wai Literary Quarterly], 34.12 (May 2006): 109-123
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 “Yi xuwu wei shiyou: Lu Xun yu xiandai Zhongguo wenxue de beiju yishi [Lu Xun and Modern Chinese Tragic Consciousness].” Lu Xun yanjiu yuekan (Lu Xun Studies) 2003.10: 11-22.
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"Zuozhe yitu lilun zai tan [Theories of authorship revisited]." Gansu shehui kexue (Gansu Social Sciences) 2008.5: 128-132.
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"The Tragic and the Chinese Subject." Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs 3.1 (2003): 55-68

Modern Language QuarterlyChina Review InternationalEncyclopedia of Asian TheatreArchiv fuer das Studium neueren Sprachen und LiteraturenShakespearean International Yearbook

 

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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"Asian American Theatre Re-imagined: Shogun Macbeth in New York." Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance, ed. Scott Newstok and Ayanna Thompson. New York: Palgrave, forthcoming in Dec. 2009.

"'No World without Verona Walls'? Shakespeare in the Provincial Cultural Marketplace." Re-Playing Shakespeare in Asia. Ed. Poonam Trivedi and Minami Ryutan London: Routledge, forthcoming in Nov., 2009.

"'A Tender Heir' to 'Bear His Memory': Shakespeare's Sonnets in Taiwan." William Shakespeare's Sonnets, for the First Time Globally Represented, a Quatercentenary 1609-2009. Ed. Manfred Pfister and Jürgen Gutsch. Dozwil, Switzerland: Edition SIGNAThUR, 2009. pp. 121 to 134.
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"Pastiche and Identity in Taiwan's Postmodern Theatre: Stan Lai and Buddhism." Taiwan Literature and History.  Ed. Kuo-Ch'ing Tu.  University of California, Santa Barbara, Center for Taiwan Studies, 2007.  213-222.
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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. Delhi: Pearson Longman, 2006.  21-45.
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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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"Contested Post/coloniality and Taiwan Culture – A Review Article of New Work by Yip and Ching." CLC Web: Journal of Comparative Literature and Culture 8.3 (September, 2006).
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Performance Reviews

Rev. of 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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Rev. of King Lear, Yellow Earth and Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre. Theatre Journal 58. 3 (October 2007): 494-495.

 

Encyclopedia Articles

The Oxford Companion to Theatre & Performance. Ed. Dennis Kennedy. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.  One entry on Wu Hsing-kuo.

The Encyclopedia of Modern China. 4 vols. Ed. David Pong, Julia Andrews, et al. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2009; two essays, approx. 2,000 words.

Illustrations Editor, The Shakespeare Encyclopedia. 5 vols. Ed. Patricia Parker. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, forthcoming in late 2009; also contributed 9 articles. Approx. 4,000 words.

"Introduction: Modern Taiwanese Theatre," The Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre. 2 vols. Ed. Samuel Leiter. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007. 15 articles, approx. 7100 words.

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Book Reviews

Rev. of Narrating China: Jia Pingwa and His Fictional World, by Yiyan Wang. Journal of Asian Studies 68.4 (2009): 1272-1274.

Rev. of Shakespeare, Memory and Performance, ed. Peter Holland. Shakespeare Quarterly 59.4 (Winter 2008): 500-503.
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Rev. of Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China, by Theodore Huters. The China Quarterly, 195 (2008): 716-718.
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Rev. of Shakespeare and the American Popular Stage, by Frances Teague. Theatre Journal 60.4 (2008): 680-681.
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Buchbesprechung: Murray Leviths Shakespeare in China, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 245 (2008): 441-444 (in German).
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Rev. of Hitchcock with a Chinese Face: Cinematic Doubles, Oedipal Triangles, and China’s Moral Voice, by Jerome Silbergeld. China Review International 14.1 (2007): 266-269.
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Rev. of Significant Other: Staging the American in China, by Claire Conceison. China Review International, 14.2 (2007): 404-410.
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Rev. of Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel quel, by Eric Hayot. Comparative Literature Studies 43. 1-2 (2006): 187-190.
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Rev. of The Subtle Revolution: Poets of the "Old Schools" in Late Qing and Early Republican China, by Jon Eugene von Kowallis. Journal of Royal Asiatic Society 19.1 (2009): 138-139.
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Rev. of Bernard Shaw and China: Cross-Cultural Encounters, by Kay Li. Asian Theatre Journal 26.1 (2009): 182-184
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Rev. of Snow in August, by Gao Xingjian, trans. Gilbert C. F. Fong. Asian Theatre Journal 23. 1 (2006): 214-215.

Rev. of Shashibiya: Staging Shakespeare in China, by Li Ruru. Asian Theatre Journal 22.2 (2005): 371-374.

 

 


Wissenschafts- und Forschungspreise

2009, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, publication subsidy award for monograph Chinese Shakespeares (grant to Columbia University Press) in recognition of its sinological value

2009, Folger Institute Grant for participation in fall conference "Contact and Exchange: China and the West"

2009, Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Comparative Literature, Penn State University

2008, Best Paper Award, Inaugural Conference of Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

2008, Folger Institute Grant for participation in semester-long research seminar

2007, National Science Council Grant (Taiwan) for Short-term Visiting Scholars

2006, International Shakespeare Association Travel Grant

(2006, National Endowment for the Humanities grant to attend the 2006 NEH Faculty Workshop Series on "Asian Culture Through Theater" - declined)

2006-2008, Penn State University President's Fund for Involving Undergraduates in Faculty Research

2007, Penn State Schreyer Institute Teaching Enrichment Travel Grant

2006, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation (CCKF) Faculty Travel Grant

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

2005-2006, Penn State University President's Fund for Research

2003, Folger Institute Grant (for participation in a Folger workshop on Shakespeare and performance).

2004 Association of Asian Performance Emerging Scholar Award

2006-2008, Penn State University Minority Faculty Development Fund

2005, Penn State University International Programs Faculty Travel Fund & Global Fund

2004 Technology & Language Instruction Certificate Program (June 14-July 2, 2004), Middlebury College Center for Educational Technology, a program funded by the Mellon Foundation; participant, expenses covered

2000-2004, Asia/Pacific Scholar, Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University

2003 Folger Institute student grant for participation in workshop on Shakespeare and performance

2003-2004, Stanford University Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (DLCL) Dissertation Completion Fellowship

2003 China Times Young Scholar Award

2002-2003, Exchange Scholar, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

2001, Japan Fund & Stanford Center for East Asian Studies Endowment Summer Grant

1999-2002, Stanford University Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (DLCL) Doctoral Fellowship

1996, Summer Scholarship, Exeter College, University of Oxford.

1994, University of Leeds (UK) Summer Scholarship

1992-1997, Taiwan Ministry of Education merit-based college scholarship (senior-year abroad at Oxford, Göttingen, and Trier)


Invited Lectures (Abbreviated)

Cambridge University, Downing College: "Ghost Writers in Search of Utopia: Translating and Manufacturing Literary Prestige in Late Qing China," Sept. 28, 2009.

Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.: Opening Lecture for "Imagining China" Exhibition (with Timothy Billings), Sept. 17, 2009.

Binghamton University State University of New York, Inauguarl Lecture, Harpur College Dean's Speaker Series: "Screening Sinophone Visuality: Shakespeare in an Age of Localization," Nov. 13, 2009.

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies: "The Aesthetics of Shanghai and Dystopian Locality," Nov. 14, 2008.

Universität Heidelberg, Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies: "Inter-media Studies and Literary Globalism," June 20, 2008.

University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS): "Untralsnating China: Cosmopolitan Iterations," Mar. 13, 2008.

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

Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) project, Singapore
      "Impersonating 'Asia':The Sites and Sights of Intercultural Theatre," August 18, 2006
      "The Question of Race in Transnational Cinema from Tomorrow Never Dies to Raise the Red Lantern," Aug. 19
      Workshop on Asian performance practices on stage and on screen, Aug. 19

Tsinghua University (China), Center for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies: "Performing Globalism: Shakespeare in the World," June 2, 2005.

National Taiwan University, Graduate Institute of Drama: "Intercultural Spectatorship and Global Localities," Nov. 1, 2008.

Rutgers University, Confucius Institute and Department of Asian Languages and Cultures: "Confucianism, Locality, and Aesthetic Truth," May 1, 2009.

University of Oklahoma, Symposium for the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature: "Mo Yan and Literary Humor," Mar. 5, 2009.

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>

Rutgers University, Department of English: "'In States Unborn and Accents Yet Unknown'? Envisioning 'Asia' and 'Shakespeare'," Apr. 13, 2007.

Taipei National University of the Arts, Department of Theatre Arts: "The Theatricality of Religious Rhetorics: Stan Lai and Gao Xingjian," Oct. 1, 2006.

Yuan Ze University, Taiwan Ministry of Education Project for Developing Top Universities Lecture Series: "Shakespeare as a Dramatist," Oct. 5, 2006.
Student response in Chinese

Shandong University (China), Graduate Institute of Comparative and World Literature: "Theatrical Transculturation," June 6, 2005.
Student response in Chinese

Rutgers University, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures: "Soviet-Chinese Theatre Exchange and the Cultural Revolution," Apr. 14, 2005.

National Taiwan University, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures: "New Forces in Modern Chinese Theater," Nov. 27, 2004.

National Tsing-Hua University (Taiwan), Department of Foreign Languages and Literature: "To Be, or Not To Be, Yet Must Be: A Global Shakespeare," Nov. 29, 2004.

National Chi Nan University (Taiwan), Department of Foreign Languages and Literature: "Shakespeare and I," Nov. 25, 2004.

 

Conference Participation (Abbreviated)

     Papers forthcoming:

"Humor, Trauma, and Histories of East Asia." Roundtable. Modern Language Association (MLA), Philadelphia, Dec. 27-30, 2009.

"Intermediality and Performative Paratext: Shakespeare in the Archive." British Shakespeare Association (BSA). Shakespeare's Globe and King's College London, Sept. 11-13, 2009.

"Of Samurais and Knights-Errant: Unthinking Visuality in East Asian Shakespeare Films." World Shakespeare Congress, Prague, 2011.

     Papers delivered:

"Tragicomedy and Compassionate Laughter from Mo Yan to Zhang Yimou." Associatoin of Asian Performance (AAP), New York, August 6-7, 2009.

"Religious Rhetorics, Shakespeare Spin-offs, the Remix: Intercultural Journeys of Unlearning and Self-Knowledge." Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), Washington D.C., Apr. 9-11, 2009.

"The Comic and Tragic Visions in Qian Zhongshu and Lu Xun." Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Chicago, Mar. 26-29, 2009.

“Doing Anything for a Laugh? Mo Yan and the Question of Humor in China." Modern Language Association (MLA), San Francisco, Dec. 27-30, 2008.

"Untranslating Shakespeare: Global Audiences and Vernacular Politics." MLA, San Francisco, Dec. 27-30, 2008.

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

“Individual and Collective Subjectivity in Qian Zhongshu and Lao She.'” AAS, Atlanta, Apr. 3-6, 2008.

"'Shaped for Sportive Tricks': Richard III, Children's Games, and the Global Vernacular." SAA, Dallas, Mar. 13-15, 2008.

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

"Shakespeare and Chinese Cinema: The Banquet, Visuality, and the Fiction of Interculturalism.” MLA, Chicago, Dec. 27-30, 2007.

"How to Do Things with Asian Shakespeares: Liminality, Alterity, Authenticity." Presentation on plenary panel. Shakespeare Society of Japan conference, Waseda University, Tokyo, Oct. 7, 2007.

Speaker. Roundtable on the Centennial of Chinese Spoken Drama. ATHE, New Orleans, July 26-29, 2007.

"'Speak of me as I am': Remembering Shakespeare and Post/colonial Asia." Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), New Orleans, July 26-29, 2007.

"Shakespeare and the Ethical: Appropriated Localities and Moralities." SAA, San Diego, Apr. 5-7, 2007.

"Performing the Nation: The Politics of Fin-de-siècle Chinese Theatre." MLA, Philadelphia, Dec. 27-30, 2006.

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

(Discussant, Panel on intercultural performance, National Taiwan University Drama Conference, Oct. 7-9, 2006.)

"Autobiographical Shakespeare." VIII. World Shakespeare Congress, Brisbane, Australia, July 21-26, 2006.
Conference Program (Winner of Open Invitation Paper Contest)

“The Ethics of Appropriation.” VIII. World Shakespeare Congress, Brisbane, Australia, July 21-26, 2006.

"Where Is Shakespeare? Siting / Citing Performative Venues." SAA, Philadelphia, Apr. 13-15, 2006.

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

“Dressing Up for the Part: Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and Hamlet.ShInE--Shakespeare in Europe conference, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Nov. 17-20, 2005.

"Late Imperial China and Its Invention of the West.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Penn State University, Mar. 11-13, 2005.

“Altering the Past, Directing the Present: Politics of Wartime Shakespearean Adaptations.” SAA, Bermuda, Mar. 17-19, 2005.

“The Private Life of Public Plays: Autobiographical Shakespeare.” MLA, Philadelphia, Dec. 27-29, 2004.

“Improvisation and Parody: New Forces of Transnational Performance in Taiwan.” Association of Asian Performance (AAP), Toronto, July 28, 2004.

“Stylizing Shakespeare: Intersecting Cultural Identities on Chinese Stages.” MLA, San Diego, Dec. 27-30, 2003.

“Allegorical Shakespeare.” SAA, Victoria, Canada, Apr. 8-10, 2003.

"Faustus and Marlowe: Two Lives in Sorcery & Espionage." COPIA: Conference on Renaissance Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Apr. 5, 2003.

“The Tragic and Its Modern Subject: Lu Xun’s Tragic Consciousness in His Later Works.” International Conference & Triennial Congress of the Chinese Comparative Literature Association, Nanjing, August 15-18, 2002.

“The Transformation of Metaphor: Trajectories of Intercultural Transplantation of Shakespeare in Cultural China.” International Conference on Shakespeare Performance in the New Asias, National University of Singapore, June 27-30, 2002.

“The Making of a Chinese Shakespeare.”  VII. WSC, Valencia, Spain, Apr. 18-23, 2001.

“Conjunction and Disjunction: German and Chinese Shakespeares.”  6th Biennial Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association, University of Auckland, New Zealand, July 7-10, 2000.

     Panels chaired and conferences organized:

MAR-AAS annual conference, October 22-24, 2010
Conference co-organizer and manager

MLA, Philadelphia, upcoming, Dec. 27-30, 2009.
Chair and organizer, "Humor, Trauma, and Histories of East Asia."

AAP, New York, August 7-8, 2009
Chair and organizer, "Tears and Laughter in Asian Comedy."

AAS, Chicago, March, 2009
Chair and organizer, "Parodic China: Subversion and Mockery in Modern Chinese Entertainment Culture"

BSA, London, Sept. 11-13, 2009.
Seminar Leader, "Asian Shakespeares in Europe." 

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

AAS, Atlanta, April 3-6, 2008
Chair and organizer, "Familial and Cultural Circuits of Chinese Literary Identities"

ATHE, New Orleans, July 26-29, 2007
Chair and organizer, Roundtable: "Remembering Shakespeare and Post/colonial Asia"

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

VIII. WSC, Brisbane, Australia, July 21-26, 2006
Chair and co-organizer, “Brave Old Worlds: Shakespeare in East Asia,” co-sponsored by the International Shakespeare Association. Conference Program

ACLA, Penn State, March 11-13, 2005
Chair and co-organizer, Research Seminar: "Performing Imperialism and Cultural Otherness in Modern East Asia."

Shakespeare in Asia International Conference, Performances and Film Festival, Stanford University, April 1-4, 2004; co-organized with Haun Saussy, Patricia Parker, and Timothy Billings, co-sponsored by a number of Stanford units and the Chiang Ching-Kuo (CCK) Foundation conference grant ($ 25,000).

Co-organizer and speaker, Interpretation and Perversion: The 10th Annual Graduate Program in Humanities Symposium, Stanford University, May 11, 2001


Service to the Profession:

Advisory board member (MAR-AAS and Penn State's Migration Studies Project), Committee for Early Modern Studies, reader of manuscripts for Yale University Press, Columbia University Press, College Literature, MCLC: Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, MLQ, CLEAR: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, Shakespeare: Journal of the British Shakespeare Association, Comparative Literature Studies, and other presses and journals, participation in digital humanities projects, advisor for undergraduate Honors, M.A. and Ph.D. students at Penn State, external reader or consultation for doctoral dissertations at University of Chicago and universities in England, Germany, and China, Education Abroad liaison, etc.

 


Professional Affiliations:

Modern Language Association(MLA)
Shakespeare Association of America (SAA)
Association of Asian Studies (AAS)
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Association of Asian Performance (AAP)
International Shakespeare Association (ISA)
Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft e.V.


Sprachkenntnisse

Fluency: German, English, Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese
Literacy: French, Latin, Classical Chinese, Japanese