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Curriculum Vitae DAVID PALUMBO-LIU department: (650) 723-3566 Education
Academic Positions
Administrative Positions
Areas of Interest
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 [Choice Outstanding Academic Title]; 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, American Literature, Amerikastudien. Excerpts from reviews: http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=3444%203445%20. 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-François Lyotard, Carlos Rincòn, Robert Weimann, and others. Stanford University Press, 1997. The Ethnic Canon: Histories, Institutions, Interventions. Essays by Norma Alarcon, Paula Gunn Allen, Elliott Butler-Evans, Barbara Christian, Lisa Lowe, Colleen Lye, E. San Juan, Ramón Saldóvar, Rosaura Sanchez, Jana Sequoya, Sau-ling Wong. University of Minnesota Press, 1995. In Progress: "The Deliverance of Others." Book manuscript on the status of literary narrative and ethics in an age of globalization. Comparative discussions of economic approaches to human action and social choice, new media, contemporary novels, comparative literature and world-systems theory. "World-Scale Ambitions." volume co-edited with Nirvana Tanoukhi with contributions from the editors, Bruce Robbins, Franco Moretti, Akhil Gupta, Michael Watts, Anna Tsing, Richard Lee, Immanuel Wallerstein, and others. Duke University Press. Articles for copies of select recent essays, go to "Resources" tab in website and follow links to download. r=refereed journals: Forthcoming “Rationality, Realism and the Poetics of Otherness: Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello.” In Mary Gallagher ed., World Writing: Poetics, Ethics and Globalization. University of Toronto Press. “Pre-emption, the Future, the Imagination,” in Giles Gunn and Carl Gutierrez-Jones eds., America and the Misshaping of a New World Order. University of California Press.
“Blood, Visuality, and the New Multiculturalism.” In Linda Calendrillo et al eds, Ways of Seeing, Ways of Speaking: The Integration of Rhetoric and Vision in Constructing the Real. Parlor Press, 203-224.
“Re-territorializing Asia Pacific: The Post September 11th Logic of Hegemony,” in Rob Wilson and Christopher Leigh Connery eds., The Worlding Project: Doing Cultural Studies in the Era of Globalization. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 187-204.
2006 "Pre-emption, Perpetual War, and the Future of the Imagination." boundary 2. 33:1 (Spring): 151-70. 2005 "Rational and Irrational: Narrative and Affect in an Age of Globalization." In Minor Transnationalisms ed. Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih. Duke University Press. 2003 "The Morality of Form, or What's So Bad About 'Bad Writing'?" in Jonathan Culler and Kevin Lamb eds., Just Being Difficult: Academic Writing in the Public Arena. Stanford University Press, pp. 171-80. "Hybridities and Histories: Imaging the Pacific Rim" In Michael Dear ed., The Post-Border City. Routledge. 2002 "The Operative Heart." The New Centennial Review special issue on Jean-Luc Nancy. 2:3 (fall 2002): 87-108. "Multiculturalism Now: Civilization, National Identity, and Difference Before and After September 11th. " boundary 2 29:2 (summer 2002): 109-128. 2001 "Against Race: Yes, But At What Cost?" Essay/review of Paul Gilroy's Against Race. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies23: 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 Guillen (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 Extreme Orient/Extreme Occident in Literary Research/Récherche littéraire (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, "Poésie et politique en Chine." Modern Chinese Literature Newsletter 4.1: 5-9. Translations 1993 Jean-Françis Lyotard, "Marie a 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-yu." The Chinese P.E.N. Summer, 57-85. Select Papers and Lectures "The Occupation of Form: Rethinking Literary History." Lecture for the Twentieth Anniversary of American Literary History. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. March 2008. Invited lecture on globalization, otherness, and literature for "The State of the Profession" colloquium, Department of English, University of Colorado, Boulder, February 2008. Videorecording at: http://www.colorado.edu/English/state/video/SOP3c.htm "Rationality and World-Systems." Invited lecture, Global Fellows Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, June 2006. "Race, Modernity, America." Invited keynote lecture, Dartmouth College, May 2006. "Atlantic to Pacific: Intercontinental Form and Social Space." Invited lecture, University of Toronto, March 2006. "Blood, Visuality, and the New Multiculturalism." Invited lecture, Columbia University, March 2006. "2046 and the Occupation of History." Invited lecture, University of Toronto, November 2005. "Toward the Common Good (?)” Confronting Katrina: Race, Class and Disaster in American Society. Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford. November 2005. Audio available at www.itunes.stanford.edu, faculty lectures, Katrina lecture number 2. “Literary, Spatial and Social Form in Blackmur and James.” American Studies Association. November 2005. “Wallerstein, Fanon, and the Politics of Rationality.” Stanford Humanities Center 25th Anniversary Conference on Knowledge and Belief. October 2005. “Race. Modernity and America.” Amherst College invited lecture. September 2005. “The Ethical Basis of World Systems Analysis.” World Scale Ambitions Conference. Stanford April 2005. "Pre-emption, Perpetual War, and the Future of the Imagination." Conference on America and the Reshaping of a New World Order. University of California, Santa Barbara, April 2004. Keynote Speaker, "On Borders and Fences, New and Old Worlds." Annual Conference of the Association of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS). March 2004, San Antonio; Mapping Migrations Conference, Transnational and Transcolonial Multicampus Research Group, UCLA May 2004. Invited lecturer for three-part series, Critical Theory Institute, University of California, Irvine. February 2004. Panelist (invited), "New Multiplicities of Studies in English and Foreign Languages: Challenges and Continuities" sponsored by the Office of Foreign Language Programs and the Office of English Programs of the Modern Languages Association. MLA Anuual Conference, San Diego, 2004. "Pre-emption and the Future of the Imagination." Literature and Philosophy session, 2004 MLA, San Diego. "Re-territorializing Asia-Pacific" (invited). Co-panelist with Bruce Cumings, Jonathan Schell, and Luis Francia, "Who's Next? North Korea and Beyond." Co-sponsored by Department of East Asian Studies, Law & Society Program & Institute, American Studies Program, Department of History, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Anthropology Department, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, April 2003, New York University. "Narrative and Ethics in an Age of Globalization" (invited). Globalization Institute, Santa Clara University, March 2003. "Asian/America After 9-11" (invited). University of Oregon, Center for Asia Pacific Studies and Center for Critical Theory and Transnational Studies, February 2003 "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, Santa 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 récherche nord américaine, Université 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 Jose David Saldivar): "(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/Ecriture/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
Dissertation Committees Director of Dissertation
Committee member
Select Service and Activities Stanford University
Public Lectures and Testimony Invited testimony before University of California Board of Regents on Stanford's undergraduate admissions policies. November 2001. "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 "Reterritorializing Asia Pacific--Pre-emptive War and the Future." Talk at New York University Law School. Video and audio boradcast, "Democracy Now!" April 2003. 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
Project reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Evaluator, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; National Science Council, Taiwan Fellowship Nominator, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Consultant, Whittier College (for multicultural curricula) Editorial Board
Editorial Collective, Positions--East Asia Culture Critique Contributing Editor, Review of Education, Pedagogy, Cultural Studies Other committee work:
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