ANDREA BACHNER Department of Comparative Literature Cornell University 240 Goldwin Smith Hall Ithaca, NY 14853

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2015Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 2013-2015 Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 2010-2013 Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 2010-2011 Mellon Fellow, Humanities Forum (Topic: Virtuality), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 2008-2010 Assistant Professor of Comparative and World Literatures, Department of Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 2007-2008 Mellon Postdoctoral Humanities Fellows, Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford University, Stanford, CA EDUCATION June 2007

2004-2005 2000-2001 2000

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Ph.D., Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Dissertation: Paradoxical Corpographies: Toward an Ethics of Inscription, a reflection on figures of corporeal inscription in contemporary German, Chilean, and Sinophone Malaysian literatures. Special Student, Department of Chinese Literature, Beijing University, PRC Graduate Student, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine, CA M.A. (with distinction), Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany Major: Comparative Literature, Minors: English and French Literatures Master thesis: “Intercultural Palimpsesting: Staging Cultural Contact in Rushdie, Marmon Silko, Vargas Llosa, Tournier, Vassanji, and Hong Kingston” Exchange Student, Oxford University, St. John’s College, UK

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Theory broadly defined, though always understood in its cultural specificity: • Theories of cultural and ethnic difference, interculturality, theories of cultural comparison and transculturality • Critical genealogies of contemporary theory, theoretical metaphors • Media studies with a special interest in visuality and textuality, questions of corporeality and embodiment, and the links between media (and media studies) and politics • Theories of gender and sexuality, transcultural queer theory Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies with a focus on contemporary and modern transcultural, diasporic, and minor literary and medial expressions: • Sinophone cultures: Mainland China and its regional and ethnic differences, Taiwan and indigenous Taiwanese cultures, Chinese Malaysia, Hong Kong, diasporic Sinophone writing in Europe and the Americas • Latin American cultures (in Spanish and Portuguese) • Major European cultures and their (post)colonial legacies (England, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Portugal) and minor European cultures (Catalonia)

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PUBLICATIONS Books Beyond Sinology: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014). On Inscription: Material Metaphors and the Making of Theory (under review Fordham University Press). Edited Volumes and Special Issues The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures, co-edited with Carlos Rojas (Oxford University Press, forthcoming April 2016). “Between Asia and Latin America: New Transpacific Perspectives,” Special Issue for Verge: Studies in Global Asias (University of Minnesota Press), co-edited with Pedro Erber (forthcoming 2017). https://www.upress.umn.edu/journal-division/Journals/verge-studies-in-global-asias Journal Articles “Cannibal Translations: Culture and Alterity in Early Modern China and Latin America” (forthcoming in Journal for Early Modern Studies, special issue on China edited by David Porter). “Cultural Margins, Hybrid Scripts: Bigraphism and Translation in Taiwanese Indigenous Writing,” (forthcoming in Journal of World Literature, special issue on Scriptworlds and World Literature). “Theses on the Translation of (Chinese) Architecture” (forthcoming in Verge, special issue on Asian Urbanisms). “What Original? Origin Stories, Script Teratologies, and Leibniz’s Hexagrammatology.” Comparative Literature, Special issue: “Original Languages.” 65: 1 (Winter 2013): 26-35. “Graphic Germs: Mediality, Virulence, Chinese Writing.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 23: 1 (Spring 2011): 197-225. “The Remains of History: Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain and Wuhe’s The Remains of Life.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 37: 1 (March 2011): 99-122. “La corrosión del sentido: Quebrada de Guadalupe Santa Cruz” (“The Corrosion of Sense: Quebrada by Guadalupe Santa Cruz”). Taller de Letras 47 (November 2010): 69-88. “‘Chinese’ Intextuations of the World.” Comparative Literature Studies 47: 3 (2010): 318-345. “Thomas Hettche’s Wound Ethics.” The German Quarterly 82: 2 (Spring 2009): 212-230. “Cinema as Heterochronos: Temporal Folds in the Work of Tsai Ming-liang.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 19: 1 (Spring 2007): 60-90. “New Spaces for Literature: Can Xue and Hélène Cixous on Writing.” Comparative Literature Studies 42: 3 (2005): 155-182. “Anagrams in Psychoanalysis: Retroping Concepts by Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and Jean-François Lyotard.” Comparative Literature Studies 40: 1 (2003): 1-25. (Winner of the 2002 Owen A. Aldridge Prize). Book Chapters “Globally Queer? Taiwanese Homotextualities in Translation” (forthcoming in Queer in Translation, edited by B.J. Epstein and Robert Gillett, Ashgate, 2016). “Chinese Literatures in Conjunction” (conclusion to The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures, forthcoming 2016). “The Secrets of Language: Chen Li’s Sinographic Anagrams” (forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures, 2016). “1899: Oracle Bones, that Dangerous Supplement…” (forthcoming in A New Literary History of Modern China, edited by David Wang, Harvard University Press). “1986: The Writer and the Mad(wo)man.” (forthcoming in A New Literary History of Modern China, edited by David Wang, Harvard University Press).

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“Between the Visual and the Sonic: Rewriting Rilke’s ‘Urgeräusch’.” (forthcoming in Un/translatables, edited by Bethany Wiggins and Catriona MacLeod, Northwestern University Press). “Concretely Global? Visual Poetry against Translation.” Globalizing Literary Genres: Literature, History, Modernity. Ed. Jernej Habjan and Fabienne Imlinger. London and New York: Routledge, 2016. 155-168. “Queer Affiliations: Mak Yan Yan’s Butterfly as Sinophone Romance.” Queering Sinophone Studies. Ed. Ari Larissa Heinrich and Howard Chiang. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. 201-220. “Found in Translation: Gao Xingjian’s Multi-Medial Sinophone.” Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader. Ed. Brian Bernards, Shih Shu-mei, and Tsai Chien-hsin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 364-374. “Reinventing Chinese Writing: Zhang Guixing’s Sinographic Translations.” Globalizing Modern Chinese Literature: Critical Essays on Sinophone and Diasporic Writings. Ed. Jing Tsu and David Wang. Leiden and Boston: BRILL, 2010. 177-195. “De/signar: Grafías paradójicas en la obra de Diamela Eltit” (“De/signar: Graphic Paradoxes in the Work of Diamela Eltit”). Diamela Eltit: Redes locales, redes globales. Ed. Rubí Carreño. Madrid and Frankfurt/Main: Iberoamericana and Vervuert, 2009. 273-281. “Re/coiling Inscription: Incisive Moments in Diamela Eltit and Jacques Derrida.” Democracy in Latin America: The Legacy of September 11, 1973. Ed. Silvia Nagy-Zekmi and Fernando Leiva. Brighton, Portland: Sussex University Press, 2005. 202-213. In Progress Comparison at the Margins: Latin America and the Sinophone World (book): an analysis of comparative practices and transcultural theories through an exploration of cultural contact, exchange, and analogies between Sinophone (i.e. cultural spheres dominated by Sinitic languages) and Latin American cultures (anticipated completion, Fall 2016). Membranicity (book project): critical reflections on the theoretical investments of figures of superficiality, flatness, smoothness, transparence, and nakedness in contemporary theory with a focus on the use (or the erasure) of cultural, sexual, and species differences (anticipated completion, Winter 2018). Sinoglossias (co-edited volume with Howard Chiang and Yu-lin Lee): edited volume with essays that reflect on the question of Chinese cultural identity and Chinese language politics from interdisciplinary perspectives with a focus on questions of mediality, embodiment, and theoretical practices. “Hymenology: Membrane Politics and the Voiding of Difference” (article for a special issue of Theory@Buffalo on “Difference: Cultural/Sexual/Universal,” forthcoming 2016). Translations Translation of Mei Chia-ling, “Voice and the Quest for Modernity in Chinese Literature” (forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature) (Chinese to English). Translation of Chen Pingyuan, “The Story of Literary History” (forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature) (Chinese to English). Translation of Ji Jin, “Modern Chinese Literature and Literature in Translation” (forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature) (Chinese to English). Translations of “草莓果园” (“Strawberry Fields”) by Liao Weitang, “音乐山谷” (“Valley of Music”) by Song Lin, “古相思曲” (“An Ancient Lovesong”) by Xi Murong, and “星期日独唱” (“Solo on a Sunday”) by Yi Lei, Chinese to German, for “Time Shadows: Music” Goethe-Institute Washington, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, and the Chinatown Community

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Cultural Center in Washington, DC, February 23, 2012. http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/lp/kul/mag/tri/map/enindex.htm. Translations of “Danza del alacrán” (“Scorpion Dance”), “Serpiente de vidrio” (“Glass Serpent”), and “Autorretrato de la mujer invisible” (“Self-Portrait of the Invisible Woman”) by Julia Piera, Spanish to English. The Poetry Ireland Review. 91 (2007): 62-64. Translation of “洋蔥” (“Onion”) by Yesi (Leung Ping-kwan), Chinese to Spanish. ABC Cultural Supplement, Spain. 752 (July 1st, 2006): 20. Reviews, Shorter Pieces, and Interviews Review of Homesickness by Carlos Rojas. (forthcoming FLSC). Interview with Carla Nappi for New Books in East Asian Studies, http://newbooksineastasianstudies.com/2014/03/23/andrea-bachner-beyond-sinology-chinesewriting-and-the-scripts-of-culture-columbia-up-2014/ Interview with Ilon Huang for the weekend magazine of Radio Taiwan International, August 2, 9, and 16, 2014 (in German). Review of A Common Strangeness by Jacob Edmond. CLEAR 53 (2013): 240-242. Review of Lin Shu, Inc. by Michael Hill. Chinese Literature Today 3: 1/2 (2013): 168-170. Review of Perfect Worlds: Utopian Fiction in China and the West by Douwe Fokkema. The Comparatist 37 (May 2013): 319-321. Review of Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora by Jing Tsu, MCLC Resource Center. http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/pubs/reviews/bachner2.htm, Summer 2011. Review of Ideographic Modernism by Christopher Bush, MCLC Resource Center. http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/pubs/reviews/bachner.htm, Spring 2011. Review of Sinographies. Ed. Eric Hayot, Haun Saussy, and Steven Yao. China Review International. 16: 3 (2009): 341-344. “另類書寫系統：張貴興《猴杯》和黃錦樹〈魚骸〉裡的肉體銘刻” (“Corporeal Inscription in Zhang Guixing’s Simian Cup and Ng Kim-chew’s ‘Fish Bones’”). Trans. Tsai Chien-hsin. SinChew Daily, Literary Supplement, August 27, 2006.

TALKS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Invited Talks “華語語系與檔案的問題: 黃錦樹的 Archival Tropics” (“Sinophone Studies and the Problem of the Archive: Ng Kim-chew’s Archival Tropics”), Workshop on Sinoglossia, Chung-hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, August 5-6, 2015 (in Chinese). “華語語系與華紋性: 媒體性、檔案、方法” (“Sinophone Studies and the Sinograph: Mediality, Archive, Method”), Guest Seminar, Sinophone Summer Camp, Chung-hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, August 3, 2015 (in Chinese). “Die Grenzen der Vergleichbarkeit: China, Südamerika und das kannibalische Imaginäre” (“The Limits of Comparison: China, Latin America, and the Cannibal Imaginary”), Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, May 4, 2015 (in German). “Out of the Groove: Aural Traces and the Mediation of Sound,” Institute for German Cultural Studies Colloquium, Cornell University, April 24, 2015. “Calligraphic Authority, Digital Threats? Contemporary Chinese Script Politics,” Languages and Authority, Princeton University, February 26-27, 2015. “Between China and Latin America: Transcultural Comparison and the Limits of Geopolitics,” Luncheon Talk, East Asia Program, Cornell University, October 21, 2014. “Double Entendre: The Languages below Language,” Remapping a Discipline: Modern Chinese Literary Studies, Duke University, April 4-5, 2014.

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“Sinotopias: China as Medium,” Sinoglossia: A Sinophone Studies Workhop, University of Texas, Austin, February 28-March 1, 2014. “Savage Marks: Subjection and the Specter of Anthropology,” Comparative Cultures and Literatures Forum Speaker Series, Cornell University, October 30, 2013. “Theses on the Translation of (Chinese) Architecture,” Center for Chinese Studies, University of California at Berkeley, September 20, 2013. “Logics of Displacement: Representations of Chinese in Latin America,” Displacement and Development, Duke University, May 11-12, 2012. “Jungle Comparisons: The (Marvelous) Reality of Interculturality,” Workshop on Taiwanese Literature, University of Texas, Austin, April 27-29, 2012. “Beyond the Eye of Violence: Mediating Visuality, Translating Trauma,” War and Violence, University of Washington St. Louis, April 6-8, 2012. “在自我與他者之間：翻譯性的問題” (“Between the Self and the Other: The Problem of Translatability”), Guest Seminar, Academia Sinica Theory Summer School, Taipei, Taiwan, July 22, 2011 (in Chinese). “Between the Visual and the Sonic: Rewriting Rilke’s ‘Urgeräusch’,” Un/Translatables: Across German Languages and Cultures, University of Pennsylvania, April 7-9, 2011. “Between Bios and Logos: Some Reflections on the Biotopoi of Contemporary Taiwanese Literature,” Conference on Taiwan Literature, University of California at Davis, November 12-13, 2010. “新原始主義、台灣文學與中國性” (“Neo-Primitivism, Taiwanese Literature, and Chineseness”), Studies of Taiwan Literature and Culture: The Ninth International Junior Scholars’ Conference on Sinology (台灣文學與文化研究：第九屆國際青年學者漢學會議), National Taiwan University, Taiwan, July 9-10, 2010 (in Chinese). “Medial Necropolitics: Death and the Sinograph,” Viral Knowledge: Discourses of Disease in Modern China, Duke University, March 21, 2010. “Inscription – Gesture – Script: Some Thoughts on a Sinographic Model,” Gesture at Large: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Gesture, The Ohio State University, February 25-27, 2010. “Future’s Other Past: Primitivism in Contemporary Sinophone Texts,” Institute for Chinese Studies, Ohio State University, February 27, 2009. “The Other Script as Parasite, or: The Politics of Allography,” Loyalism and Betrayal in Modern Chinese Literature, Harvard University, December 5-6, 2008. “華紋/文電影: 異質、視覺、中國性“ (“Sinographic Film: Alterity, Visuality, Chineseness”), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, August 15, 2008 (in Chinese). “Alternative Filiations? Homoerotics, Kinship, (Post)Modernism,” Modernism Revisited: Pai Hsien-yung and Chinese Literary Modernism in Taiwan and Beyond, University of California at Santa Barbara, May 1-3, 2008. “Beyond the Reproduction of Pain: The Corrosion of Meaning in Guadalupe Santa Cruz’s Work,” Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California at Santa Barbara, April 30, 2008. “Sinographic Medialities: Chinese Writing under Erasure,” Constructing Spaces in East Asia (Humanities Center Workshop), Stanford University, April 10, 2008. “The Difference of Resemblance: Zhang Guixing’s Sinographic Translations,” Globalizing Modern Chinese Literature: Sinophone and Diasporic Writings, Harvard University, December 6-8, 2007. “Huang Jinshu’s Cryptographies: Inscription, Translation, and Difference,” Translation: East Asia and the West, National Taiwan Normal University/Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, December 3-5, 2007. Conference Presentations “Against Comparison? China, Latin America, Translatability,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, March 26-29, 2015. “Radical Resemblance: Periodization, Comparability, and the Chinesification of the Avant-garde.”

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(Roundtable “Geopolitics of the Avant-garde”), Annual Meeting of the Modernist Studies Association, Pittsburgh, November 6-9, 2014. “Comparative Paranoia,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Philadelphia, March 27-30, 2014. “Fake Comparison,” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, New York University, March 20-23, 2014. “Chinese Script Worlds and the Problems of Translation: Opening Remarks,” Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, January 8-12, 2014. “Global Impositions: Literary Theory and Intercultural Comparison,” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, University of Toronto, April 4-7, 2013. “Cannibal Equivalences: Comparative (Counter-)Cultures in China and Latin America,” Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Boston, January 3-6, 2013. “Comparison after China: Beyond the Sinophone and the Sinographic,” China after Comparison, Penn State University, Sept. 7-8, 2012. “Violent Homotopias: China, Latin America, Cruelty,” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Brown University, March 29-April 1, 2012. “Translating Corporeality: International Architecture, Chinese Biopolitics,” Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Seattle, January 5-8, 2012. “Beyond Comparison: China and Latin America,” ACL(x): An Experimental Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association, Penn State University, Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2011. “The Prosthetic Community: Primitive Networks, Supplemental Interfaces,” The Global and the Primitive, Penn State University, April 22, 2011. “Animal Spirits, Wolf Totems, and China’s Race for Sustainability,” Sustainable Asia: Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies, Penn State University, October 22-23, 2010. “Chinese Language Lost? Script Creativity and the Digital,” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, New Orleans, April 2-4, 2010. “On (Not) Writing Chinese: The Multi-Lingual Politics of Concrete Sinographic Poetry,” Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, December 27-30, 2009. “Translating Cruelty: Iconography, Alterity, Dis(re)memberment,” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, March 26-29, 2009. “How to Make Yourself a Body without a Body, or: The Uses of Corporeality,” The Body: Comparative Studies Round-Table Discussion Series, Ohio State University, November 21, 2008. “The Oblivion of Space (Hong Kong),” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Long Beach, April 24-27, 2008. “The End of History and Its Remains: Gao Xingjian’s Soul Moutain and Wuhe’s The Remains of Life,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Atlanta, April 3-6, 2008. “De/signar: Grafías paradójicas en la obra de Diamela Eltit” (“De/signar: Graphic Paradoxes in the Work of Diamela Eltit”), Coloquio Diamela Eltit, Universidad Católica, Santiago de Chile, October 17-20, 2006 (in Spanish). “‘Skeletal Remains’ at the Scene of Writing,” Participant Colloquium, Summer School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, July 24, 2006. “Re(en)gendering China: Mak Yan Yan’s Butterfly,” Gender Myths, Gender Meanings: Harvard Graduate Student Conference, Harvard University, April 28-29, 2006. “Nurturing Perversion: Reconfiguring Intersubjective Transmission in Recent Chinese Literature and Art,” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006. “The Cutting Edge of History: Thomas Hettche’s Nox, Yu Hua’s ‘The Pasts and the Punishments,’ and the Perverse Pleasures of the Cut,” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, April 15-18, 2004. “Desiring Mirrors: Narcissism and Auto/Homo-Erotics in Lin Bai’s Yige ren de zhanzheng (One Person’s

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War) and Chen Ran’s Siren shenghuo (Private Life),” The Chinese Body Politic, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, April 10-11, 2004. “Estrategias de re-inscripción en Jacques Derrida y Diamela Eltit” (“Strategies of Reinscription in Jacques Derrida and Diamela Eltit”), Democracy in Latin America: Thirty Years After Chile’s 9/11, State University of New York at Albany, October 10-12, 2003 (in Spanish). “Re/coiling Inscription: Incisive Moments in Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida, and Diamela Eltit,” Thinking Sexually Across the Disciplines: A Queer Symposium, Harvard University, May 16, 2003. “Intercultural Palimpsests: Destabilizing the Other Text in Mario Vargas Llosa’s El hablador (The Storyteller),” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, California State University, San Marcos, April 4–6, 2003. “Paradox-Management in Texts by Judith Butler and Niklas Luhmann,” Tropology: Text & Context, State University of New York at Binghampton, March 21-22, 2003. “A Poststructuralist Baroque: Deleuzian and Derridean Lines of Flight from/through the Fold,” Derrida/Deleuze: Psychoanalysis, Territoriality, Politics, Critical Theory Institute, University of California, Irvine, April 12-13, 2002. “Circular Figurations in Luhmannian Systems Theory,” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, University of Colorado, Boulder, April 19-22, 2001. Panel and Conference Organization Co-organizer (with Pedro Erber), Roundtable “Between Asia and Latin America,” Global Asias III, Penn State, April 9-11, 2015. Co-organizer (with Carlos Rojas), Remapping a Discipline: Modern Chinese Literary Studies, Duke University, April 4-5, 2014. Co-organizer (with Shaoling Ma), Panel “Counterfeit Capital,” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, New York University, March 2014. Organizer, Special Session “Chinese Script Worlds and the Problems of Translation.” Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, January 8-12, 2014. Organizer, Special Session “Rethinking Comparison: Latin America and East Asia.” Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Boston, January 3-6, 2013. Co-organizer (with Eric Hayot and Carlos Rojas), China after Comparison, Penn State University, September 7-8, 2012. Co-organizer (with Reiko Tachibana), Panel “Alternative Transpacific Exchanges.” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Brown University, March 29-April 1, 2012. Co-organizer (with Chien-hsin Tsai), Special Session “Chinese Biopolitics, Global Aesthetics.” Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Seattle, January 5-8, 2012. Co-organizer (with Carlos Rojas), Panel “China Connections.” ACL(x): An Experimental Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association, Penn State University, Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2011. Organizer, Workshop The Global and the Primitive, Asian Studies Program, Penn State University, April 22, 2011. Organizer, Panel “Other Script Politics.” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, New Orleans, April 2-4, 2010. Co-organizer (with Itziar Rodríguez), Panel “Dis/location.” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, March 26-29, 2009. Organizer, The Body: Comparative Studies Round-Table Discussion Series, Ohio State University, November 21, 2008. Co-organizer (with Itziar Rodríguez), Graduate Student Conference Mirrorings: Reflections on Reflection, Humanities Center, Harvard University, April 7-8, 2006. Co-organizer (with Itziar Rodríguez), Panel “‘Perverse’ Desires and Trans/national Politics.” Annual

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Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, April 15-18, 2004. FELLOWSHIPS 2016-17 Fellow at the Society for the Humanities, Cornell, Project: Membranicity 2014 ACLS Fellowship ($35,000), for Comparison at the Margins 2010-2011 Mellon Fellow, Humanities Forum (Topic: Virtuality), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 2007-2008 Mellon Postdoctoral Humanities Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 2004-2005 Yenching Exchange Scholarship, study at Beijing University, PRC 2006-2007 Nebel Fellowship, Harvard University 2000-2001 Exchange Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 2000-2001 Fulbright Scholarship (declined) 1994-2000 Scholarship “Stipendium für besonders Begabte,” Bavarian State, Germany 1994-2000 Scholarship, Foundation Maximilianeum, Germany 1996-1997 Exchange Scholarship, Foundation Maximilianeum, Oxford University, UK GRANTS AND HONORS 2015-2016 Faculty Participant, Mellon Diversity Seminar, Cornell University 2014-2017 Einaudi Center International Faculty Fellow Grant, Cornell University ($30,000) Spring 2014 Conference Grant (with Carlos Rojas), Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for Remapping a Discipline: Modern Chinese Literary Studies, Duke University, April 2014 ($25,000) Fall 2013 Hull Memorial Publication Subsidy, Cornell University, for Beyond Sinology ($2,700) Fall 2013 Publication Grant, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, for Beyond Sinology ($5,000) Fall 2012 Conference Grant, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Inter-University Program, for China after Comparison, Penn State University, Sept. 7-8, 2012 ($5,000) 2009-2011 Research Grant, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Taiwan ($15,000) 2006-2007 Graduate Society Dissertation Completion Grant, Harvard University Fall 2006 Research Grant, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Santiago de Chile 2004-2005 Sheldon Traveling Grant, Harvard University, year of study and research in China 1998-2000 Official guest, Graduate Research Program “Gender Difference and Literature,” LudwigMaximilians University, Munich, Germany SUMMER RESEARCH AND SEMINARS Summer 2011 Visiting Researcher, Academia Sinica, Taiwan July 2010 Visiting Researcher, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Fall 2009 Visiting Researcher, Academia Sinica, Taiwan August 2009 Seminar for Critical Experimental Theory (SECT VI), “Designing China,” organized by the Institute for Critical Theory of the University of California at Irvine, held at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, PRC Summer 2008 Summer School of Theory and Academic Writing, Taiwan Culture University, organized by the Institute for Literature and Philosophy at the Academia Sinica, Taiwan Summer 2006 Summer School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University (Grants by the Department of Comparative Literature and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University) July 2004 Catalan Language Course, University of Girona (Intermediate level) Summer 2003 Tuition Waiver for “Introduction to Classical Greek,” Harvard Summer School Summer 2002 Summer Grant, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard, research at the National Library, Madrid, Spain

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Chinese language courses, Beijing Language and Culture University, PRC (Grant of the Keller Foundation) Summer 1995, Spanish language courses, University of Salamanca, Spain (exchange program, 1996, 1997 Foundation Maximilianeum) AWARDS AND ESSAY PRIZES 2005-2006 Merit Award, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University 2004 Villasante Essay Prize, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University “Mimetismos: ambivalencia e imitación en la obra de Fernán Caballero” 2003 Villasante Essay Prize, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University “Espejismos: estructuras especulares en Tirant lo Blanc, El Abencerraje y Don Quijote” 2002 A. Owen Aldridge Essay Prize, American Comparative Literature Association 2000 Annual Essay Prize, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine, “The Posthuman Bodies of Milorad Pavic’s Dictionary of the Khazars” TEACHING Theory and Media Studies “Seminar in Theory: Theories of Affinity” (Cornell University, Spring 2015 and Spring 2016, required theory course for Comparative Literature Majors) “Visuality and Violence” (Penn State University, Spring 2013, graduate course in Comparative Literature) “Beyond the Line: Narrative Theory in Literature and Film” (Penn State University, Fall 2011, advanced undergraduate course in Communication Studies and Comparative Literature) “Scenes of Inscription: Mediality, Corporeality, Difference” (Ohio State University, Spring 2010, Seminar for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in Comparative Studies) “Meaning/Violence: Foundations of Contemporary Critical Theory” (Ohio State University, Winter 2009, graduate seminar in Comparative Studies) Comparative and World Literatures, Postcolonial Studies “Between Asia and Latin America (Cornell University, Spring 2015, co-taught with Pedro Erber, seminar for graduate and advanced undergraduate students) “Freshman Writing Seminar: Writing Across Cultures: Primitive Passions” (Cornell University, Fall 2013) “Global Fictions” (Cornell University, Fall 2013, undergraduate seminar) “Primitive Passions in Literature and Popular Culture” (University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2010, freshman seminar in Comparative Studies and Literary Theory) “Introduction to the Humanities” (Ohio State University, Winter 2009, general education course) “Primitive Passions, Intercultural Negotiations” (Ohio State University, Winter 2009, graduate seminar in Comparative Studies) “Introduction to World Literature” (Ohio State University, Spring 2010 and Fall 2008, general education course, introductory course for the World Literature major) “Framing the Other: ‘China’ and the ‘West’” (Ohio State University, Fall 2008, seminar for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in Comparative Studies, taught as a graduate seminar in the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, Winter 2008) “Postcolonial Narratives” (Harvard University, Department of English Language and Literatures, Spring 2006, general education course, as teaching assistant, awarded Certificate of Distinction in Teaching) “Freshman Tutorial in Comparative Literature” (Fall 1997 and Fall 1998, Department of General and Comparative Literature, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany)

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Chinese Literature and Culture “China Beyond China: China and Interculturality” (Penn State University, Spring 2012 and 2013, advanced undergraduate course in Chinese Studies) “Introduction to Chinese Film” (Penn State University, Fall 2011, general education course) “Screening Modern China” (Harvard University, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, general education course, Fall 2003 and Spring 2006, as teaching assistant and coordinator, awarded Certificate of Distinction in Teaching) Latin American Literature and Culture “Caribbean and Latin American Women’s Writing” (Harvard University, Program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Spring 2004, undergraduate seminar, as teaching assistant, awarded Certificate of Distinction in Teaching) “Survey of 19th and 20th-Century Latin American Literature” (in Spanish) (Harvard University, Spring 2004, undergraduate course for majors in Spanish literature, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, as teaching assistant) Sexuality Studies and Queer Theory “Globally Queer?” (Penn State University, Spring 2012, general education course) “Introduction to Sexuality Studies” (Ohio State University, Winter 2009, introductory course, Sexuality Studies minor) “Other Romances” (Harvard University, undergraduate seminar in Romance Languages and Literatures, Fall 2003, as teaching assistant, awarded Certificate of Distinction in Teaching) SERVICE Cornell University Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, Spring 2015Member, Nominating Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Fall 2014-Spring 2015 Member, Curricular Committee, Department of Comparative Literature, 2013Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Comparative Literature, 2013-2014 Member, Travel Grant Selection Committee, East Asian Program, 2013-2015 Service to the Profession External Member, Fellowship Panel, Council of East Asian Studies, Yale University, Fall 2015. Member, Advisory Board, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 2013Member, Executive Committee of the discussion group “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society“ (G017) of the Modern Language Association, 2013-2017 Panel Member, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Grant Evaluation Committee, 20102011 Manuscripts reviewed for Routledge, The German Quarterly, Comparative Literature Studies, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Postcolonial Studies, Taller de Letras, Frontiers of Literary Study in China, Concentric, Comparative Literature, Literary Compass, Verge and ASAP. The Pennsylvania State University Job Placement Officer, Comparative Literature, 2012-2013. Committee Member, Graduate Committee, Comparative Literature, 2012-2013. Committee Member, Graduate Committee, Asian Studies, 2011-2013. Delegate, Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Digital Humanities Initiative, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, April 19-20, 2012 The Ohio State University Member, Interdisciplinary Film Studies Committee, Ohio State University, 2008-2010.

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Member, Sexuality Studies Faculty, Ohio State University, 2008-2010. Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Curricular Restructuring, Ohio State University, 2009-2010. Member, Committee on Talks and Colloquia, Department of Comparative Studies, Ohio State University, 2008-2010. LANGUAGES German (native), English (native-like), Spanish (native-like), Mandarin Chinese (fluent), French (fluent), Catalan (fluent reading proficiency), Italian (fluent reading proficiency), Portuguese (fluent reading proficiency), Classical Chinese (reading proficiency), Latin (reading proficiency), Japanese (basic), Arabic (basic), Classical Greek (basic). AFFILIATIONS American Comparative Literature Association, International Comparative Literature Association, Modern Language Association, American Asian Studies Association.

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