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Workshop Theme
Workshop Schedule
Participants
Sponsors
Workshop Theme
In contrast to the relatively more established conversation between scholars of African, African-American, and American literatures in and around the field memorably named by Paul Gilroy’s Black Atlantic, scholars of East Asian, Asian-American and canonical American literatures have largely continued to live in separate worlds --in disciplinary theory if not in private reading practice. That is beginning to change. The Chronicle of Higher Education recently reported a "Re-Orienting of American History" and several major academic presses and journals are preparing publications on the Pacific Rim as a literary field. It has become apparent that the Trans-Pacific will be an increasingly important area of literary and cultural studies. "Trans-Pacific Modernisms" brings together from diverse disciplinary backgrounds scholars whose work is shaping this emerging interdisciplinary field for the study of literary modernism. This work is multidirectional, its objects ranging from the presence of East Asia in U.S. culture to Asian representations of and responses to the United States, across the spectrum of immigrations, emigrations, translations, and mediations of their shared geo-political and literary histories. These diverse topics are united by a common set of methodological issues and by interconnected histories. The workshop is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Christopher Bush - cb1@princeton.edu
Workshop Schedule
Both sessions will take place in Scheide Caldwell 103
Please note that there have been schedule changes since the initial posting.
Eileen Chow (Harvard University)
Session II: 2:00-4:15
Eric Hayot (University of Arizona/International Institute, UCLA)
Participants
Jonathan Abel (Columbia)
Postdoctoral fellow in
the Expanding East Asian Studies Program based at Columbia’s Weatherhead East
Asian Institute. His essay on modernizations of the Tale of Genji appears
in Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation (Princeton, 2005) and
he has recently published in Comparative Literature Studies and Asian
Cinema. Currently, he is preparing a book manuscript based on his
dissertation, "Pages Crossed: Tracing Literary Casualties Through the War in
Japan and America," and co-translating Azuma Hiroki’s book-length critical study
on consumers of Japanese visual culture, entitled Animalized Postmodernity:
Japanese Society Through the Eyes of Otaku.
Christopher Bush (Princeton)
Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts and Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Princeton University.
He is co-editor and translator of a critical edition of Victor Segalen’s
French/Chinese prose poem collection Steles (forthcoming from Wesleyan
UP) and has recently published in Comparative Literature, Comparative
Literature Studies, and in the collection Sinographies: Writing China
(Minnesota). He is currently completing a book entitled Ideographic
Modernism: "China," Writing, Media. He is one of the editors of the blogzine
printculture.
Eileen Chow (Harvard)
Assistant Professor of
Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies at Harvard University. She is currently
completing two book projects: "Spectacular Novelties: Urban Entertainments,
Zhang Henshui, and ‘News’ Culture in Republican China," a study of the vast,
thriving commercial culture of popular publishing and visual entertainment in
urban China (in particular, Beijing and Shanghai) during the Republican era
(1911–1949), and "Hollywood’s China/China’s Hao-lai-wu," which takes as its
point of departure the imbricated relationship of Chinese and Hollywood film
cultures – from the inception of cinema to the 1930s–40s "golden era" of the
Shanghai and Hollywood film industries to the present moment. Chow has worked in
both Hollywood and Chinese film industries (Warner Brothers, Beijing Film
Studios, Taiwan’s Central Motion Pictures) as well as on independent and
documentary film productions.
Wai Chee Dimock (Yale)
William Lampson
Professor of English & American Studies at Yale University. She is the author
of: Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism (1989),
and Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy (1996); co-editor of
Rethinking Class: Literary Studies and Social Formations (1994), and
"Literature and Science: Cultural Forms, Conceptual Changes," a special issue of
American Literature (December 2002). She is also the co-editor of two
other special issues, "American Literary Globalism" (ESQ 2005), and
"Transnational Citizenship" (ALH 2005), and serves on the editorial board of PMLA (2004-6). Her new book
Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time will be
published in 2006 by Princeton UP.
Eric Hayot (Arizona)
Associate Professor of
English, University of Arizona and a Global Fellow at UCLA’s International
Institute (2005-2006). He is the author of Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel
quel (U of Michigan Press, 2003), a co-editor of Sinographies: Writing
China (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming) and of The EverQuest
Reader (Wallflower Press, forthcoming), and has published in PMLA,
Postmodern Culture, and Comparative Literary Studies. His current
book project is The Chinese Body in Pain. He is one of the editors of the
blogzine printculture.
Colleen Lye (Berkeley)
Associate Professor of
English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of
America’s Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945 (Princeton,
2005), has published in Representations and Inter-Asia Cultural
Studies, and is a contributor to the forthcoming Cultural Production and Cultural Imaginaries in the
Asia/Pacific/America (UC Press).
Josephine Park (Penn)
Assistant Professor of
English, University of Pennsylvania. She has recently published in
Contemporary Literature and is currently working on a study that uncovers
the modernist roots of avant-garde Asian American poetry. Her teaching interests
include poetry and poetics, modernism, minority literature, and theories of
subject formation, immigration, and transnationalism.
Haun Saussy (Yale)
Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale
University. He is the author of The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic
(Stanford UP, 1993), Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in
Cultural China (Harvard University Asia Center, 2001) and a co-editor of
Sinographies: Writing China (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming),
and, with Kang-i Sun Chang, of Chinese Women Poets, An Anthology of Poetry
and Criticism from Ancient Times to 1911 (Stanford, 1999). He is currently
editing the American Comparative Literature Association’s 2004 report on the
state of the discipline and is one of the editors of the blogzine
printculture.
Steven Yao (Hamilton)
Assistant Professor of
English at Hamilton College and a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center
(2005-06). He is the author of Translation and the Languages of Modernism
(Palgrave/St. Martin’s, 2002), a co-editor of Sinographies: Writing China
(University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming) and is preparing an edited volume
on Pacific Rim Modernisms and a book on Asian-American poetry.
Sponsors
Society of Fellows and the Council of the Humanities
Program in East Asian Studies
Program in American Studies
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Department of English
Department of Comparative Literature
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