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David Palumbo-Liu is Professor of Comparative Literature, and Director of the Program in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University. He received both his undergraduate and graduate training at the University of California, Berkeley, obtaining undergraduate degrees in Comparative Literature (English and French) and what was then called "Oriental Languages" (major field, Chinese). His graduate work focused on Chinese literature and on literary criticism and theory. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Berkeley in 1988.
He spent two years in East Asia--one year of Chinese language study in Taiwan, and one year in Kyoto, Japan, as a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council. There he researched Japanese scholarship on classical Chinese literature at Kyoto University and at the Research Institute for Humanistic Studies; he was appointed as a fellow at both institutions.
While pursuing a PhD in comparative literature at Berkeley, he began working in Asian American studies as well, teaching courses on Asian American history and literature in that department. Upon completion of the PhD, he accepted a joint appointment as assistant professor in Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and Department of English, where he taught courses on Chinese literature and American ethnic literature, literary criticism and theory, and comparative literature.
In 1990, he joined the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford. Part of his duties was to help establish Asian American studies. He was a founding faculty member of Stanford's Program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE), which was established in 1997, along with a research center (CCSRE). He continues to be a core member of its affiliated faculty, as well as a member of the Program in Modern Thought and Literature and East Asian Studies.
In 1994 he declined a visiting assistant professorship at Harvard in order to accept a year's fellowship leave at the Stanford Humanities Center. It was there that he began to work in earnest on his second book on Asian American cultural studies.
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Teaching
At Stanford, Palumbo-Liu's teaching ranges from co-teaching a track in the freshman core humanities course ("Europe and the Americas") with anthropologist Renato Rosaldo and Latin Americanist Mary Louise Pratt, to large lectures such as "Comparative Ethnic Autobiography" and small seminars and graduate courses that explore a number of topics in ethnic studies, postcolonial and diasporic studies, Pacific Rim and Asia Pacific studies and various theoretical issues such as cosmopolitanisms and nationalisms. In 1998 he taught courses on postcolonial and immigrant literatures, and the formation of discourses of exoticism in France, at the Stanford Center in Paris.Palumbo-Liu has published in several areas: on both classical and modern Chinese literature, American studies, race and ethnic studies, East Asian, Asia Pacific, and Asian American studies, cultural and diasporic studies, social theory, and aesthetics. His articles, essays, reviews and translations are listed in the attached c.v.
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Books:
Palumbo-Liu's first book publication (The Poetics of Appropriation: The Literary Theory and Practice of Huang Tingjian, 1045-1105, Stanford University Press, 1993) addressed the notion of authorship and poetic language in Song dynasty China, taking as its focal point the work of Huang Tingjian, one of the most difficult poets in the Chinese tradition because of his dense use of recondite allusions. This study argued that the poetry of citation was completely in line with the Song project to reassess and classify all prior knowledge, and to invent a distinct cultural identity from those discourses. This book begins and ends with chapters that compare the seemingly contradictory elements of learning and spontaneity, and their relation to textuality, to similar discussions in western poetics.
His second book was an edited volume, The Ethnic Canon: History, Institutions, Interventions (Minnesota, 1995). In his critical introduction, Palumbo-Liu addresses the historical occasion of multiculturalism and charts the various functions and histories of the institutionalization of ethnic literature in the U.S. academy. The anthology itself, with essays by Norma Alarc??n, Rosaura Sanchez, Ram??n Sald??var, Sau-ling Wong, Lisa Lowe, Colleen Lye, E. San Juan, Jr., Elliott Butler-Evans, Barbara Christian, Paula Gunn Allen, and Jana Sequoya-Magdelena, argues for a contestative and critical multicultural pedagogy.
His third book publication, co-edited with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, is entitled, Streams of Cultural Capital: Transnational Cultural Studies (special issue of Stanford Literature Review, 1993; rpt., Stanford University Press, 1997). Palumbo-Liu's introductory essay explores how Bourdieu's concept, while demonstrating the social function of "culture," is hard-pressed to address transnational cultural movements, which engage a wide variety of agents and media. The essays, from around the globe, analyze discrete cases of transnational movements and refigurations, recombinations, and reterritorializations of cultural objects. Broadly addressed to the notion of "global culture," this anthology argues instead that we attend to the local manifestations of transnational flows of culture. Essays by Arjun Appadurai, Chen Xiaomei, Biodun Jeyifo, Bruce and Judith Kapferer, Anne Knudsen, Mary Layoun, Jean-Fran??is Lyotard, Carlos Rinc??n, Robert Weimann, and others.
Palumbo-Liu's fourth book, Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier, was published in 1999 by Stanford University Press. This book is a long interdisciplinary study of "Asian America." Seeing the modern identity of America as inseparable from its notion of a Pacific Destiny, Palumbo-Liu focuses on the production of the identity "Asian/American." He argues that the "proximity" of Asian Americans to that ideal of "American" should be read as a history of persistent reconfigurations and transgressions of the Asian/American "split," designated by a solidus that signals those instances in which a liaison between "Asian" and "American," a sliding over between two seemingly separate terms, is constituted.
As in the construction "and/or," where the solidus at once instantiates a choice between two terms, their simultaneous and equal status, and an element of indecidability, that is, as it at once implies both exclusion and inclusion, "Asian/American" marks both the distinction installed between "Asian" and "American" and a dynamic, unsettled, and inclusive movement.
He moves through readings of the material histories of Asian America (restructured urban geographies, the wars in Asia, the transformation of Asian American space into Pacific Rim space), as well as the ways the Asian/American liaison has been read as a psychic symptom. Chronologically beginning with the 1920s' political and juridical discourses on American nationhood and Asia, and sociological attempts to read race in America, the study ends with an examination of the formation of "Asia Pacific" and its projection into a "borderless" cyberspace of a particularly liquid capital. This Asian "alternate modernity" is of course abruptly curtailed with the collapse of the Asian economies. The study follows closely both the way Asian identity is mapped in the crucible of multiracial dynamics in the U.S. (i.e., the racial categories of "brown," "black," and "white"), and the invention of diasporic identities, as both take part in the refiguring of American national identity.
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Current Projects
Palumbo-Liu's current research includes studies of border art, race and media, the aesthetics and ethics of globalization, and an essay on Jean-Luc Nancy.
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DAVID PALUMBO-LIU
Department of Comparative LiteratureStanford University
Stanford, California 94305-2031department: (650) 723-3566
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e-mail: palumbo-liu@stanford.edu
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Education
1988 Ph.D. Comparative Literature (Chinese, French, English), University of California, Berkeley
1980 M.A. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
1977 B.A. Oriental Languages, University of California, Berkeley
1975 B.A. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Academic Positions
2001- Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University. Affiliated faculty member: East Asian Studies; Program in Modern Thought &Literature; Program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
1999- Director of the Program in Modern Thought & Literature, Stanford University
1999-2000 Director, Asian American Studies Program
1995-2001 Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University.
1994-95 Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center.
1990-94 Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, Stanford University.
1988-90 Assistant Professor, English and the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.
1985-86 Research Fellow, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University; affiliated with the Research Institute for Humanistic Studies (Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies)
Areas of Interest
Asian and Asian Pacific American studies; race, migrancy and ethnicity; cultural studies; comparative literatures; literary theory and criticism; social theory; local/global issues.
Publications
Books
Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier. An interdisciplinary study of the nexus between Asia and America, and the production of "Asian America" in modernity. Stanford University Press, 1999. In second printing. Reviewed in Amerasia Journal; American Journal of Sociology; Choice; Critique internationale; Journal of Asian Studies; Library Journal; American Quarterly, American Historical Review; Journal of Asian American Studies; Journal of Social History; Pacific Historical Review; Comparative Literature Studies; New Centennial Review.
The Poetics of Appropriation: The Literary Theory and Practice of Huang Tingjian (1045-1105). Stanford University Press, 1993.
Edited Volumes
Streams of Cultural Capital: Transnational Cultural Studies. Co-edited with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. Essays by Arjun Appadurai, Chen Xiaomei, Biodun Jeyifo, Bruce and Judith Kapferer, Anne Knudsen, Mary Layoun, Jean-Fran??is Lyotard, Carlos Rinc??n, Robert Weimann, and others. Stanford University Press, 1997.
The Ethnic Canon: Histories, Institutions, Interventions. Essays by Norma Alarc??n, Paula Gunn Allen, Elliott Butler-Evans, Barbara Christian, Lisa Lowe, Colleen Lye, E. San Juan, Ram??n Sald??var, Rosaura Sanchez, Jana Sequoya, Sau-ling Wong. University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
Articles
r=refereed journals:
In Press:
"The Morality of Form, or What's So Bad About 'Bad Writing'?" in Jonathan Culler ed., Just Being Difficult. Stanford University Press.
"Narratuve in an Age of Globalization." In Minor Transnationalisms ed. Fran??ise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih. Cornell University Press.
"Hybridities and Histories: Imaging the Pacific Rim" In Michael Dear ed., Mixed Feelings. Routledge.
"Multiculturalism Now: Civilization, National Identity, and Difference Before and After September 11th. " boundary 2 June/July 2002 issue.
2001
"Against Race: Yes, But At What Cost?" Essay/review of Paul Gilroy's Against Race."Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 23: 1 (Spring 2001): 1-22.
"Modelling the Nation: the Asian/American Split." In K. Chuh and K. Shimakawa eds., Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora. Duke University Press, 213-227.
"Literary Studies, Multiculturalism, and Corporate Practicality." In Gumbrecht and Moser eds., The Future of Literary Studies (Edmonton: Canadian Comparative Literature Association Press, 2001), 56-60.
2000
"Fables and Apedagogy: Lyotard's Relevance for a Pedagogy of the Other." In Pradeep Dhillon and Paul Standish eds., Lyotard: Just Education. Routledge, pp. 194-214.
"Assumed Identities." New Literary History 31:4, pp. 765-780.
1999
"Awful Patriotism: The Politics of Knowing." (Critical essay on Richard Rorty's Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America) diacritics (29:1): 37-56. (r)
1997
"Unhabituated Habituses," in Palumbo-Liu and Gumbrecht eds., Streams of Cultural Capital, pp. 1-21.
1996
"Historical Permutations of the Place of Race." PMLA 111:5 (October 1996) Guest column, pp. 1075-78.
1995"The Bitter Tea of Frank Capra: Hybridity and Modern Asian America." positions: east asia culture critique. 3:3 (Winter 1995): 759-789. (r)
"The Politics of Memory: Remembering History in Kogawa and Walker," in Amrijit Singh and Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr. eds., Memory and Cultural Politics : New Essays in Ethnic American Literatures. Northwestern University Press, pp. 211-226.
"Critical Introduction" for The Ethnic Canon: Histories, Institutions, Interventions. University of Minnesota Press, pp. 1-30.
"On the Subject of Asian American Studies: Theorizing Asian American Studies." Amerasia Journal 21: 1&2: 55-66. (r)
"Universalisms and Minority Cultures." differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies 7:1: 188-208. (r)
"Terms of (In)difference: Cosmopolitanism, Cultural Politics, and the Future of Literary Studies." (Translated into Portuguese in Cadernos do Mestrado/Literatura, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro). 2:14: 46-62.
"The Ethnic as 'Post-': Reading Reading the Literatures of Asian America." (review essay) American Literary History. 7:1: 160-68. (r)
1994
"Can Academics Teach Public Culture?" (essay review of Stanley Aronowitz, Roll Over Beethoven: The Return of Cultural Strife) Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies 16:2: 163-70.
"Representing the Other as Self: Problematics of Self-Representation in Asian-American Literature." Cultural Critique 28: 75-102. (r)
"LA, Asians, and Perverse Ventriloquisms: On the Functions of Asian America in the Recent American Imaginary." Public Culture 6:2 (Winter): 365-85. (r)
1993
"Cultural Capital in a Transcultural/Late Capitalist Age?" introduction to "Streams of Cultural Capital," special issue of Stanford Literature Review 10.1-2 (Spring-Fall): 1-10.
"The Utopias of Discourse: On the Impossibility of Chinese Comparative Literature." CLEAR: Chinese Literature--Essays, Articles, Reviews, volume 14: 165-77.(r)
"Schrift und kulterelles Potential in China." [Writing and the Possibilities of Culture in Medieval China] , in Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and K. Ludwig Pfeiffer eds, Schrift (Fink Verlag), 159-69.
1991
"Toshio Mori and the Attachments of Spirit." Amerasia Journal 17:3: 41-49.(r)
1990
"Discourse and Dislocation: The Rhetorical Strategies of Displacement." LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 2:1: 1-8.(r)
1984
"Towards a Poetics of Chinese Narrative: History/Rhetoric/Narrative." Proceedings of the Tenth Triennial Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association 1982, Volume 2: Comparative Poetics, ed. Claudio Guill?©n (New York: Garland Press), 632-636.
|"Some Observations on Huang Tingjian's Poetics." Phi Theta Papers 16: 137-63. A publication of the Oriental Languages Department, University of California, Berkeley.
1983
"Parallelism in the Chinese Canon of Poetry: The Shih Ching," Poetics Today 4:4: 639-653.(r)
1981
"Report on the Conference on Critical Approaches to the Modern Chinese Short Story, East/West Center," Modern Chinese Literature 7:1-2.
"Chinese `Symbolist` Verse of the 1920s: Li Chin-fa and Mu Mu-t'ien." Tamkang Review 12:1: 27-53.(r)
1980
"The Chih yan chai Commentary in the Perspective of Recent Western Theories of Literature." Tamkang Review 10: 3, 4: 471-493.(r)
Reviews
2000
Review of David Leiwei Li, Imagining the Nation, in Studies in the Novel.
1998
Review of Lisa Lowe, Immigrant Acts, in Amerasia Journal (24:2): 183-85.
Review of Lisa Lowe, Immigrant Acts, in Journal of Asian Studies, (58:3): 810-12.
(these are two separate reviews of Lowe's book solicited by these journals for their respective readerships).1990 Extr??me Orient/Extr??me Occident in Literary Research/R?©cherche litt?©raire (Journal of the International Comparative Literature Association): 14-15.
1989 James J.Y. Liu, Language-Paradox-Poetics: A Chinese Perspective. Journal of Asian Studies 48:4: 832-33.
1978 Michelle Loi, "Po?©sie et politique en chine." Modern Chinese Literature Newsletter 4.1: 5-9.
Translations
1993 Jean-Fran??is Lyotard, "Marie ??Narita." Stanford Literature Review 10.1-2 (Spring-Fall): 35-42. Rpt. in Palumbo-Liu and Gumbrecht eds., Streams of Cultural Capital, Stanford University Press, 1997.
1983 Chi Chun, "Ah-y?º." The Chinese P.E.N. Summer, 57-85.
Work in Progress
Invited contribution to special issue of New Centennial Review on Jean-Luc Nancy's "L'intrus."Select Papers and Lectures
"Multiculturalism Now: Civilization, National Identity, and Difference Before and After September 11th. " Future of Minority Studies conference, Stanford, October 2001.
"Globalization, Narrative, and Affect." (invited). Paper presented at Yale University, February 2001; Harvard University, April 2001; University of California, Los Angeles, May 2001.
"The Media is the Message: Racial Politics and the News Media." (invited). University of Michigan, March 2001."Gilroy's Against Race: Yes, but at what cost?" (invited). Paper presented at the conference on "Diasporas africaines dans l'ancien et le nouveau monde: conscience et imaginaire." Sorbonne, 26-28 October 2000.
Invited panelist for "Diasporas: Transnational Identities and the Politics of the Homeland," Organized by the William Saroyan Chair in Armenian Studies and the Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies. University of California, Berkeley. November 13, 1999.
"Retrospective on Asian American Studies" (invited). Conference on the 25th Anniversary of Asian American Studies, University of California, Berkeley. October 1999.
"Beyond 'Immigrant' 'Literature'" (invited). Paper presented at the Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, June 1999.
Keynote address, University of Washington conference on American Studies. May 26, 1999.
"Relativity and Racism: Locating Race in the United States" (invited). Paper presented to the seminar on Science and History, University of California, San Diego, March 1999.
"Asian American Studies in an Interdisciplinary Frame" Invited talk, University of California, Stana Cruz. February 1999.
"Cynical Individualism, Opportunistic 'Democracy': the New Uses of Merit" (invited paper for plenary panel), Conference of Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education, San Francisco, March 1999.
"Are We All 'Ethnic' Now? Comparative Literature at the Turn of the Century" (invited). Conference and workshop on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Comparative Literature major at Yale University, co-sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center. February 1999.
Invited speaker for a Roundtable on Research and Pedagogy, sponsored by the Office of the Executive Director of the Modern Languages Association. Annual convention, San Francisco, December 1998.
"Ethnicity and Diaspora: Process and Narration" (invited). Centre interdisciplinaire du r?©cherche nord am?©ricaine, Universit?© de Paris 7 (Institut Charles V). November 1998.
"Out of Place: Transnationalism, Race, and the New Cold War." Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, Hawaii, June 1998.
Invited lecture, Futures of American Literary Studies, Dartmouth, June 1998.
Invited lecture, Seminar and Colloquium on the Pacific Rim, University of Washington, May 1998.
Invited speaker, Conference on Postcolonialism and Transnationalisms, Stanford University, May 1998.
Invited speaker, Conference on "Materializing Culture," Stanford Humanities Center, March 1998.
Invited speaker for conference on Rethinking Civil Society, San Francisco State University, March 1998.
"Out of Place: Transnational Capital and Race." Invited speaker, conference on "Race, Class, Citizenship, and Extraterritoriality: Asian Americans and Campaign Finance Reform." San Francisco, November 14, 1997.
Invited speaker, conference on "Exile, the Nation, Globalization, and De-Nationalization in Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies." Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, October 18, 1997.
Invited speaker, conference on "Race and Money in Campaign Finance Politics." University of Washington, October 17, 1997.
"Putting Diaspora to Work: Observations on Asian American City Space" (invited). Annual Symposium of the Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley, April 1997.
"Re-Facing the Nation: Surgery and Foreign Relations" (invited). University of Maryland conference on Asian American Studies, March 1997.
Invited panelist, Harvard Symposium on Chinese diasporic studies, Asian and Asian American studies, and Ethnic Studies at Harvard. April 1996.
"Historical Permutations of the Place of Race," presented for the panel, "The Place of the Personal in Scholarship" sponsored by PMLA (invited). Modern Languages Association convention, Chicago, 1995.
"Wetbacks and Re-essentialized Confucians: the Invention of the Modern Racial Category of Asian." Association of Asian American Studies, Oakland CA, June 1995.
"The Bitter Tea of Frank Capra: Capitalism and Conscience" (invited). Rethinking Race conference, University of Pennsylvania, October 1994.
Panelist (invited), "Re-Thinking Ethnic Studies." Minority Discourse Project, University of California Humanities Research Institute, UC Irvine, April 1994.
Panelist, "Diaspora: Concept and Critique." Association for Asian Studies conference, Boston, 1994.
"Universalisms and Minority Cultures" (invited). University of California/Davis, University of California/Irvine, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and Harvard University, March 1994.
Invited panelist for session on "Postcolonial literatures and feminist perspectives." MELUS conference, University of California, Berkeley, May 1993.
"On the Functions of the Asian America in the Recent American Imaginary." American Comparative Literature Association conference, Indiana University, March 1993.
Panelist (invited) for Positions roundtable on East Asian Cultural Critique. Association for Asian Studies conference, Los Angeles, March 1993.
"The Poetic Subject of Knowledge" (invited). "Theorizing the Subject of China" conference sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, UC Santa Cruz, January 1993.
Invited speaker, University of California Humanities Research Institute conference on "Minority Discourse: Ideological Containment and Utopian/Heterotopian Potentials," June 1992, UC Irvine.
"Model Minority Literature: The Politics of Healing," presented at the annual Association of Asian American Studies convention, San Jose State University, May 1992.
Invited discussant, panel on "Nationality and Ethnicity," conference on "Intervention: Orientalism in the Context of East Asia," UC Berkeley, April 1992.
Convener and panelist, "Power and Personae in Nonwestern Discourses," conference of the International Association of Philosophy and Literature, UC Berkeley, April 1992.Invited participant, University of California Humanities Research Institute conference on "Travelling Theory" December 1991, UC Irvine.
Workshop co-convener (with Jos?© David Sald??var): "(Post)National Narratives," for conference on "Global Economies, Local Ethnicities: Culture and the Crisis of the National," sponsored by the Goethe Institute, Stanford University, November 1991.
"Song Dynasty Modes of Identification: The Question of Alterity in Medieval Chinese Poetics." Paper presented to Paul Zumthor at roundtable colloquium on Zumthor's Parler du Moyen Age, UC Berkeley, October 1991.
Invited speaker, Association of Departments of English seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1991.
"The Idea of Health: Ideology and the Closure of the Ethnic Novel" (invited). Speakers series on "Postcoloniality and California," University of California, San Diego, 1991.
"Scripture and Science: Remarks on Modern Chinese Literary History," (invited) for conference on "Occidentalism: China's Image of the West," sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and the Center for East Asian Studies, May, 1991.
"Writing and the Possibilities of Culture in Medieval China." Conference on Writing/??iture/Schrift, Stanford University, 1991.
"Terms of Indifference: Cosmopolitanism and Diversity." Inaugural address, Stanford University, 1991.
Invited panelist, "Politics and Pedagogy: Teaching Asian Literature as World Literature." MLA convention, Chicago, 1990.
"Reconstitutions: The Dialectic of Narration and Self in Kogawa and Walker." (invited) American Literature Association conference, San Diego, 1990.
"The Other as Self: Problematics of Self-Representation in Asian American Literature." MLA, Washington, 1989.
"Abbreviating Asia." Panel on pedagogy and politics in Asian literary studies, MLA, Washington, 1989.
"The Rhetorical Strategies of Dislocation" (invited). Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies, Hunter College, CUNY, 1989.
"Huang Tingjian's Critical Appropriations." Presented at special session on critical revisions in traditional Asian literatures, MLA, New Orleans, 1988.
"Discourse and Dislocation." Presented on panel on Asian-American literature, Modern Languages Association conference, New Orleans, 1988.
Sample of courses taught
Comparative Ethnic Autobiography; Comparative Narrations of Ethnicity and Immigration in France and the United States; The Postmodern Pacific; Introduction to Asian American Cultures; Ethnicity and Literature; Worlds (No Longer) Apart; Culture and Politics; Hybridity and Diaspora; Comparative Nationalisms
Dissertation Committees
Director of Dissertation
Eileen Chow (Comparative Literature), Currently assistant professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard
Jana Sequoya (MTL)
Celine Parrenas (MTL)
Bakirathi Mani (MTL)Committee member
Ming-Yeung Lu (Modern Thought and Literature)
Yingjin Zhang (Comparative Literature), associate professor, Indiana University
Mark Francis (Asian Languages)
Mingbao Yue (Asian Languages)
K.C. Lo (Comparative Literature)
Lydia Francis (Asian Languages)
Rebecca Stein (MTL)
Shameem Black (English)
Timothy Yu (English)
Manishita Dass (MTL)
Lisa Thompson (MTL)
Yael Ben-zvi (MTL)
Select Service and Activities
Stanford University
Comparative Literature Department Advisory Committee (1990-93)
Undergraduate Advisor, Comparative Literature (1990-)
Ad hoc Committee on Race and Ethnicity, American Studies Program (1990-91)
Faculty committee on Asian American Studies Curriculum Development (1990-95)
Cultural Studies Faculty Research Group (1990-95)\
Asian American Studies Faculty Group (1990-)
Faculty committee, Irvine Foundation Grant for Multicultural Curriculum (1991-93)
Committee in Charge of Humanities Honors Program (1991-93)
Screening Committee for External Fellowships, Stanford Humanities Center (1991-93; 1998-)
Center for East Asian Studies Admissions Committee (1992 ; 2000)
Asian American Studies Mentorship Program (1994-)
Editorial Board, Stanford University Press (1993-96; chair 1995-96)
Director, Comparative Literature Graduate Admissions (1995)
Program in Modern Thought and Literature, Committee in Charge (1995-)
Asian American Studies Curriculum Committee (1995-98)
Center for East Asian Studies Awards Committee (1995; chair)
Center for East Asian Studies Steering Commmittee (1995)
Steering Committee, Program in Comparative Race and Ethnicity, (1995-)
Director, Division of Cultures and Languages Honors College (1996, 1997)
Placement Advisor, Modern Thought and Literature (1996, 1997)
Humanities and Sciences Selection Committee, Mellon Fellows (1996)
Dean's Task Force on Diversity (for the Presidential Chairs in the Humanities (1998)
Faculty, Sophomore College (1998-)
Sophomore advisor (1998-)
Director, Program in Modern Thought and Literature (1999-)
Faculty Senate (elected) (2000-2002)
University Committee on Committees (2001-02)
Provost's Diversity Council (Chair, Committee on Undergraduate Diversity) (2001-)
University Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid (1999-2002; chair, 2001-02)
Public lectures
"California on the Edge of America's Modernity" (invited speech to Stanford Alumni Association, Los Angeles, February 2001).
"The History of Asian American Literature and Its Social Context," (invited) speech for the Western Regional Division of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, San Francisco, April 1992.
"Asians in America: The Making of History-History in the Making" (invited) speech delivered at Stanford Centennial, September 1991.
Media interviews
Interviewed for "What's the Word" radio program for the Modern Languages Association, broadcast nationally on National Public Radio, spring 2001.
Interviewed in Chronicle of Higher Education 31 May, 1996 (XLII: 38), pp. A13-14. ("A New Emphasis on Ethnic Studies" ). Other newsprint interviews include: San Francisco Examiner (June 18, 1998, A-5); Los Angeles Times (May 1998); New York Times (June 9, 1999, B11)).
"Multicultural emphasis must go on." Solicited opinion column on new Stanford president. San Jose Mercury News September 19, 1999 1C, 3C.
Interviewed by KGO (ABC, Channel 7) for program, "California Education" (taped 7 December 1993, broadcast 17 December 1993).
Other professional service
Reader
American Literary History
American Quarterly
China Review International
CLEAR: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews
Contemporary Literature
diacritics
differences: a Journal of Feminist Studies
LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory
Palgreave Press
PMLA
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Duke University Press
Princeton University Press
Temple University Press
University of California Press
University of Minnesota PressProject reviewer
National Endowment for the HumanitiesFellowship Evaluator
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur FoundationFellowship Nominator
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur FoundationConsultant
Whittier College (for multicultural curricula)Editorial Board
Modern Languages Association of America publication series, Resource Guides for the Literatures of America
Stanford Literature Review (1990-95)
Stanford University Press, (1993-96; ch, 1995-96)
Co-editor, with Sucheng Chan and Michael Omi, Temple University Press series, Asian American History and CultureEditorial Collective
Positions--East Asia Culture CritiqueContributing Editor
Review of Education, Pedagogy, Cultural StudiesOther committee work:
Executive Committee, MLA Division on Asian Literatures (1989)
MLA Committee on the Languages and Literatures of America (1989-92)
Advisory Board, American Comparative Literature Association (1984-85)Professional Affiliations:
American Chinese Comparative Literature Association, Association of Asian Studies, Association of Asian American Studies, Modern Languages Association
