Graduate Student Achievements 2007-08

SINGLY AUTHORED PUBLICATION:

Foley, Ashar.  (in press) "Sarah, Leahy.  Casque d’or."  Contemporary French Civilization.

Hung, Tzu-hui Celina. "F eeling for ‘Comfort Women’: Performing Human Rights Discourse in Asian/America." Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 33.2 (September 2007): 99-125.

Lu, Xiaoning. (in press) "Zhang Ruifang: Modelling the Socialist Red Star." Journal of Chinese Cinema

Lu, Xiaoning. (accepted) "Promote Physical Culture and Sports, Improve the People’s Constitution," in B. Wang (Ed.), Words and Their Stories: Essays on Chinese Revolutionary Discourse, Leiden: Brill Press.

Staats, Hans. Valerie Orpen, Cléo de 5 à 7, forthcoming from Contemporary French Civilization.

Staats, Hans. Will Higbee, Mathieu Kassovitz, forthcoming from Contemporary French Civilization.

JOINTLY AUTHORED PUBLICATIONS

Razumova, Lyudmila (2007). The Interpreter’s Companion, Russian Edition (with Holly Mikkelson). Spreckels, CA: ACEBO, 2007

ABSTRACTS, CONFERENCES/COLLOQUIA PRESENTATIONS, SYMPOSIUMS, WORKSHOPS

Burrows, Alice Claire. “The Ethnographic Subject: Representation, Performance, and Liberalism.” Graduate Student Conference organized by the English Department, Stony Brook University, Manhattan site, 2008.

Burrows, Alice Claire. "The Liberal Spectator: Representation, Performance, and the Ethnographic Subject." CUNY Graduate Center Conference organized by the Cinema Studies Group, New York City, 2008.

Chen, I-Ju. (2007) Literature as Politics: Contemporary English Critical Studies of Taiwanese Literature.  The New York Conference on Asian Studies.  Binghamton University, NY.

Chen, I-Ju. (2007) SARS: Affect and Victims. Thinking Affect: Memory, Language, Cognition.  The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL.

Chen, I-Ju.  (2008) Survivor: Reality in Exile.  The 29th Annual Meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA.  Albuquerque, NM.

Chen, I-Ju.  (2008) SARS, A Deadly Play of the New Millennium.  The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association.  New York University, NY.

Hung, Tzu-hui Celina. “Abducted Chinese Diaspora: Rethinking Problems of Language, Ethnicity, and History through the Nanyang Chinese.” New York Conference on Asian Studies. Binghamton University. October 2007.

Hung Tzu-hui Celina. “The Queer Traveler and the ‘the Road Not Taken’: Reconceptualizing Diaspora through the Creole Chinese Body.” 2008 Annual Meeting of American Comparative Literature Association. California State University. Long Beach. April 2008.

Larsen, John. (2008) “1 Tongue, 2 Speakers, and 3 Modes: Imagery of the Mouth in La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas.” Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Colloquium. Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.

Larsen, John. (2008) “Una lengua, dos hablantes y tres modos: El uso de la boca en La Celestina de Rojas.” 13th Annual Graduate Students’ Conference, Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages. City University of New York, New York City, NY.

Lu, Xiaoning. (2008) “Performing Ethnicity in Chinese Socialist Cinema: The Use of Ethnicity in Constructing Socialist Subjects,” Sixth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association, New York University, NY, May 22.

Razumova, Lyudmila. (2008) Literary Bilingualism as Cosmopolitan Practice: Nancy Huston. Arrivals and  Departures. The American Comparative Literature Association’s 2008 Annual Conference. Long Beach, CA, USA. April 24-27.

Staats, Hans. (2007) Michael Winterbottom's The Road to Guantánamo, Exilic and Diasporic Documentary Filmmaking. Comparative Literature Colloquium. Humanitites Institute, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY.

Staats, Hans. (2008) Michael Winterbottom's The Road to Guantánamo & A Mighty Heart: Violence, Identity, & Self-Determination. Framed: Delimiting the Film Image. CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.

Staats, Hans. (2008) The Transcultural Child: Trauma and Subjectivity in Germania anno zero and Le Chiavi di casa. Re-envisioning the Child in Italian Film: New Perspectives on Children and Childhoods from Early Cinema to the Present. University of Exeter, Devon, UK.

BOOK REVIEWS

Burrows, Alice Claire. Review of Diaspora Criticism by Sudesh Mishra. Culture Machine (October 2007).

TRANSLATIONS

Chen, I-Ju. (2007)  Born Losers: A History of Failure in America (Scott A Sandage).  Taipei: New Century Publishing Co., Ltd.  (2005)

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Staats, Hans. Research Assistant to Paula J. Massood, Associate Professor of Film Studies at Brooklyn College and in the Ph.D. Program in Theatre at The Graduate Center/CUNY, The Spike Lee Reader, Temple University Press, January 2008.

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