MLA Commons | LLC East Asian | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/ Activity feed for the group, LLC East Asian. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:12:38 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 084dfed0c0bc033445ea05542e3e8b3d Heng Du started the topic CFP: Permutations of the “Imagination”; Grappling with Absence in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cfp-permutations-of-the-imagination-grappling-with-absence/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:09:21 -0500 The MLA Pre-14th c. Chinese Lang Lit & Cul Forum is inviting proposals for the following two panels.<span class=”Apple-converted-space”> </span>

<b>Permutations of the “Imagination” in Early and Medieval Literary and Visual Art</b><b></b>

This panel will explore the idea of the “imagination” as manifest in the literary and visual arts of early…[Read more]

]]> 0 9b4259816cfb740985c7bf6d1803697e Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai-4/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:52:03 -0500 <p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Critical AI (Duke University Press)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI Technologies</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Special cluster edited by Alexa Alice Joubin</p>
 

This special issue cluster calls on…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7e66adea713777f8932a4c7e89b6d4f Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applicants: Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA, Athens, due by 1/15/26 in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cf-applicants-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga-athens-due-by-1-15-26/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:52:54 -0500 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies. </span>

 

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following:…[Read more]

]]> 0 26f9aa9adc6b3a268da92ca93cf090e8 Tian Jing Teh started the topic CFP USC Korean Studies Institute Annual Graduate Conference 2025-2026 in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cfp-usc-korean-studies-institute-annual-graduate-conference-2025-2026/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 04:09:13 -0400 The USC Korean Studies Institute invites applications for its Annual USC Graduate Conference in Korean Studies 2025-2026. This conference aims to foster a multidisciplinary community of local and regional graduate students whose research projects significantly engage Korean society and culture across the periods. It offers a platform for emerging…[Read more]

]]> 0 bed759e6f99a8179ea616dcf19aafd15 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-17/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 22:33:42 -0500 Hello!

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one can…[Read more]

]]> 0 957b663ecd634e8c4d560585b26d9d17 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI and the Humanities, a Course by Alexa Alice Joubin in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1891695/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:03:47 -0400 Artificial intelligence is a feminist issue, and technologies often have colonial implications. In fact, technologies as disruptive agents are inherently queer. This course examines the long history of technologies leading up to the public release of ChatGPT. We will chart the Western societies’ apprehension of and faith in, as the case may be, t…[Read more]

]]> 0 e7fdc8af26b6c0ed70fa772f30721b0b Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889177/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:03:45 -0400 This article reconsiders the racial hierarchies rendering the nonwhite race as the Other in Anglo-American Victorian studies by examining the case of colonial Korea, where both the colonizer and the colonized were people of color. In colonial Korea, reading Victorian and Edwardian literature enabled Koreans to find an alternative humanity beyond…[Read more]

]]> 0 06f816f7a922654b5a975298576da41e Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Performativity and Trans Literature," in The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature, ed. Douglas A. Vakoch and Sabine Sharp (2024), pp. 29-39 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886045/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:09:56 -0400 Performativity—how language and nonverbal communication tacitly or overtly affects social actions—is the core of all utterances and imaginative literature. Building on J. L. Austin’s speech act theory, Judith Butler has developed, since the 1990s, a theory of gender performativity. It has been widely appropriated as a critical tool to under…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7035478ecacbe747575cd69b0be1585 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Screening Dutch Formosa in 2000: Taiwan as China’s Renegade Province in Wu Ziniu’s The Sino-Dutch War 1661," in Scenes from Dutch Formosa: Staging Taiwan’s Colonial Past, ed. Llyn Scott (Portland ME: MerwinAsia, 2014), pp. 153-179 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886040/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:00:15 -0400 What does Koxinga mean to today’s China and Taiwan? How does Wu Ziniu’s film The Sino-Dutch War 1661, a 2000 mainland Chinese film about seventeenth-century Dutch Formosa–with a mainland Chinese / Hong Kong / Japanese cast–complicate the questions of belonging and betrayal?

Taiwan’s cultural identities have always been political…[Read more]

]]> 0 13bdfd6523fb954a4545031350fa4e81 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Keynote: Cinematic Representations of East Asian American Women, Tucker-Boatwright Festival and Symposium: Hollywood & the Asian American Imagination, Richmond, February 23, 2024 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878849/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 04:01:57 -0500 My keynote explores such questions as: What are the patterns in Hollywood representations of East Asian American women from romantic comedy to science fiction films? How do racism and sexism intersect in these patterns? Watch the video recording on YouTube (https://youtu.be/iHjKOYf-IXQ) to gain a better understanding how gender biases are…[Read more]

]]> 0 8344490172d70a9035dfa7a8cded582f Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform, in CLEAR: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 45 (2023): 335-338 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876064/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:15:27 -0500 Going against the grain, this collection counters the common perception of the Maoist era as a time of ideological conformity. The contributors persuasively demonstrate that theatre activities were varied and lively between the 1950s and 1970s. While there was state control over the arts, performances in urban spaces were more frequently censored…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b43440e5e6ec54332bfd3892c75887d Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Performing the Socialist State by Xiaomei Chen, in CLEAR: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 45 (2023): 338-340 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876060/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:10:03 -0500 In this review, Alexa Alice Joubin outlines the main argument of Xiaomei Chen’s Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture. “The eight chronologically- and thematically-organized chapters in this book provide a much-needed critical survey of spoken drama (huaju) from its inception through the Republican and Maoist eras…[Read more]

]]> 0 085d313e046aa420168c40f47f867b03 Edward B. Kamens started the topic Planning for the 2025 MLA Conference in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/planning-for-the-2025-mla-conference-2/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 18:02:14 -0500 The LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum Executive Committee asks members and other interested individuals to share ideas for panels and round tables to be proposed for sponsorship by the Forum for the program of the 2025 MLA Convention, which will be held in New Orleans, January 9-12. We are especially interested in suggestions of innovative panel or round…[Read more]

]]> 0 e41efa5201965a356302884cdda44b53 Matthew Fraleigh started the topic Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/scaglione-prize-for-east-asian-studies-2/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 01:41:10 -0500 Greetings.

Last year, the generosity of Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione enabled the Modern Language Association to create the Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies, to be awarded annually to an outstanding scholarly work in East Asian literary studies. Works of literary history, literary criticism, philology, and literary theory are eligible, as are…[Read more]

]]> 0 45336e7f966f11ae663c5b33dc363eea Sarah Allen started the topic Call for nominations: LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese forum executive committee in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-llc-pre-14th-century-chinese-forum-executive-committee-2/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 16:18:45 -0500 P14 Chinese Forum members, the forum executive committee is soliciting nominations for a new member to join the executive committee for a five-year term starting January 13, 2025. We are particularly interested in mid-level senior scholars with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in comparative and world…[Read more]

]]> 0 51eb252f1ce5bb0db603c5a5528cacdb Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Generative AI as Shadow Publics in an Inquiry-Driven Society, Symposium on Digital Scholarship. Hong Kong Baptist University, October 27, 2023 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864511/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 04:10:22 -0500 Generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, simulate human writing and complicate the inquiry-driven culture we live in. These tools use singular first-person pronouns in their textual outputs and are often associated with anthropomorphic qualities. Within the humanities, conversations tend to focus on detecting new forms of plagiarism. What is missing…[Read more]

]]> 0 c120e24fc58ff08ad4f360bfde82c103 Brian Bernards started the topic Job Opening: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Premodern Korean Studies, USC in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/job-opening-tenure-track-assistant-professor-in-premodern-korean-studies-usc/ Fri, 15 Sep 2023 20:29:15 -0400 Assistant Professor in Premodern Korean Studies

The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Premodern Korean Studies. The position is…[Read more]

]]> 0 643abf0568769fc35c5d9f1c1a36a900 Brian Bernards started the topic AAS 2024 Seattle CFP: Verge-sponsored panel on Inter-Asia Intermediality in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/aas-2024-seattle-cfp-verge-sponsored-panel-on-inter-asia-intermediality-3/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 20:03:06 -0400

AAS 2024: Call for Papers for Verge-sponsored Panels


Inter-Asia Intermediality: The Transboundary Production of Global Asian Mediascapes
Organizers: Brian Bernards (bernards@usc.edu) and Elmo Gonzaga…[Read more]

]]> 0 f2fcb50aa07950adfbadfbd899a15fce Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Lin Shu." The Chaucer Encyclopedia Edited by Richard Newhauser (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2023), pp. 1085-1086 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1852243/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 03:50:51 -0400 Alexa Alice Joubin’s entry expands the global scope of The Chaucer Encyclopedia (4 vols). This entry, in Volume 3, examines the work by the Chinese translator Lin Shu’s (1852-1924). Lin translated and rewrote several key stories from the Canterbury Tales. Joubin argues that Lin’s works exemplify early twentieth-century Chinese imaginaries of medie…[Read more]

]]> 0 d153553dd0f25c4e21176eb0a3464fea Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Alexa Alice Joubin Receives the Martin Luther King Jr. Award in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1846406/ Thu, 18 May 2023 02:44:48 -0400 Alexa Alice Joubin received the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award, which recognizes Professor Joubin’s “contributions to social justice and inclusive excellence ” that exemplify “the ideals that Dr. King espoused,” particularly “community-based social justice organizing rooted in non-violence.” The MLK Award comes on the heel of her bell hook…[Read more]

]]> 0 c9214cc2733fa2de07951b5547e17437 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Do English Audiences Have the Toughest Time with Shakespeare?," Quarto: The Magazine of the Shakespeare Theatre Association, Spring/Summer, 2023 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841708/ Mon, 17 Apr 2023 02:28:28 -0400 All the world’s a stage, but the irony is the rest of the globe often has an easier time understanding William Shakespeare than English speakers. “English audiences are at a disadvantage because the language has evolved and is more and more distant. They need footnotes, props and staging to understand,” said Alexa Alice Joubin, a Shakespeare schol…[Read more]

]]> 0 aebd7d95f2785d794287eee8466bab0d Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "English Professor Uses AI to Teach Shakespeare and Critical Theory." GW Today, April 12, 2023 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841267/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:01:36 -0400 When ChatGPT was launched, Alexa Alice Joubin realized it was here to stay. She views it as her responsibility to teach students how to use it responsibly, not as a shortcut. “This technology is going to be with us, and students need employable skills in terms of curation, editorial repackaging and prompt engineering,” Joubin said. “They need…[Read more]

]]> 0 f2972aa49680c84015f882de0c96701e Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Joubin receives the bell hooks Legacy Award in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841262/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 03:52:41 -0400 Alexa Alice Joubin was named the inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award on April 7, 2023. The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association (PCA / ACA) established the award to commemorate the late feminist writer and activist bell hooks (1952-2021) who has authored more than 30 books. The award recognizes Joubin’s a…[Read more]

]]> 0 146efd9ed4d3d16037d355a301b813d2 Brian Bernards started the topic Job Announcement: USC Teaching-Track Position in EALC in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/job-announcement-usc-teaching-track-position-in-ealc/ Tue, 04 Apr 2023 14:12:16 -0400 The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the East Asian Studies Center in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, invite applications for a full-time teaching-track faculty position in East Asian cultural studies, with a preferred focus on…[Read more]

]]> 0 cb9bf095c5061d5441d27bdd0dc84c73 Sarah Allen started the topic Call for proposals for the 2024 MLA in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/call-for-proposals-for-the-2024-mla-4/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:28:30 -0500 The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]

]]> 0 d200cfd197086821d22ff040e411205e Jack W. Chen started the topic Executive Forum Call for Nominations in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/executive-forum-call-for-nominations-2/ Sat, 07 Jan 2023 21:54:08 -0500 P14 Chinese Forum members, we are in the process of soliciting nominations for the forum executive committee. We are particularly interested in midlevel senior scholars with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in comparative and world literary methodologies. Please send all nominations, including…[Read more]

]]> 0 1622c4d03655f74f1e1e975feaff1324 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Anti-Asian Racist Misogyny in Science Fiction Films." The American Mosaic: The Asian American Experience (Bloomsbury ABC-CLIO, 2022). Digital Database in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1794546/ Sat, 17 Sep 2022 03:50:21 -0400 The depiction of women of East Asian descent in science fiction films reveals how racial hierarchies are mapped onto, and used as justification for, mistreatment of women—and misogynistic prejudices inform racism. Contributing to the patterns that dehumanize Asian women are multiple sci-fi films that feature cyborgs and androids in Asian female b…[Read more]

]]> 0 61e57abdd574fa579fbae6386a2d0c7a Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: 2nd Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cfp-2nd-biennial-conference-of-the-society-of-sinophone-studies-6/ Sun, 17 Jul 2022 23:54:15 -0400 Oceans and Empires: Sinophone Crossroads in Global Space and Time 

The 2nd Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies <https://www.sinophonestudies.org/s3conference>

5/12—5/14/2023

Penn State University

The Sinophone world that is invigorated by “multisensory protests” and “ally-ship” (the focus of the 2021 conference) al…[Read more]

]]> 0 e4d07c8f8f0b1f25a316492ea149a44f Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Sinophone Adaptations of Shakespeare: An Anthology, 1987-2007, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin (Palgrave, 2022) in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1786320/ Sat, 09 Jul 2022 03:52:56 -0400 Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear, three of the most frequently adapted tragedies, have inspired incredible work in the Sinophone theatres of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China for over two centuries as political theatre, comedic parody, Chinese opera, and avant-garde theatre. Gender roles in the plays take on new meanings when they are e…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b0cdd0878fe7cd1531c09877f9909f8 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Screening Anti-Asian Racism: Gendered and Racialized Discourses in Film and Television," Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature 19.1 (March 2022): 167-180. in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1784804/ Thu, 23 Jun 2022 03:50:40 -0400 The global pandemic of COVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities as viral origins—in the United States. Offering strategies for inclusion and for identifying tacit forms of misogynistic racism, this article analyzes the manifestation of the ideas of yellow peril and yel…[Read more]

]]> 0 6aeafb8342c7b2b0b5b22a22a11ef42c Lisa Zunshine deposited The Secret Life of Literature in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1777277/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 02:23:38 -0400 An innovative account that brings together cognitive science, ethnography, and literary history to examine patterns of “mindreading” in a wide range of literary works.

]]> 0 0dc41f62ab995ebc7caf7ee5c0e56207 Jina Kim started the topic CFP Modernist Studies Association's Annual Conference "Pacific-Rim Modernism" in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cfp-modernist-studies-associations-annual-conference-pacific-rim-modernism/ Wed, 16 Mar 2022 20:38:20 -0400 CFP for the Modernist Studies Association’s Annual Conference

“Pacific-Rim Modernism”

Portland, Oregon | October 27-30, 2022

https://msa.press.jhu.edu/conferences/msa2022/cfp.html

Call for Individual Paper Proposals for MSA Panel Streams

  • Pacific-Rim Modernism examines not only how western modernists and modernist cultural productions imag…

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]]> 0 4f991a518f7528c8b1e80a684c9ca8ca Jina Kim started the topic CFP Korean Literature Association Conference 2022 in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cfp-korean-literature-association-conference-2022/ Wed, 16 Mar 2022 20:28:24 -0400 Korean Literature Association Annual Meeting

November 11-12, 2022, University of OregonEugene, OR, USA

The Korean Literature Association cordially invites proposals for its annual meeting on the theme of “Resonance” to be held at the University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. We invite individual papers and team projects that reflect on the way res…[Read more]

]]> 0 622a48911deb3d13b3154361f5c40546 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Deconstructing Compulsory Realpolitik in Cultural Studies: An Interview with Alexa Alice Joubin," American Journal of Chinese Studies 28.2 (October, 2021): 115-130. in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1756624/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 04:00:21 -0400 How might we de-colonize hegemonic knowledge production about East Asia and its relationship with the West? This interview with Alexa Alice Joubin draws on new perspectives on cultural exchange in her book, Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press, 2021), which promotes treatment of Asian performing arts as original epistemologies rather…[Read more]

]]> 0 4b851da1c7deb8c95b14d284ac4588a5 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Performing Reparative Transgender Identities from Stage Beauty to The King and the Clown," Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern, ed. Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, and Anna Klosowska (Cornell University Press, 2021), 322-349 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1756619/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 03:51:18 -0400 Analyzing trans narratives about the early moderns through the lenses of affective labor and social reparation, this chapter reclaims as trans the Shakespeare films that have been misinterpreted as homosexual. In doing so, this chapter builds a longer, more intersectional history of gendered embodiment. Reparative trans performances—works in w…[Read more]

]]> 0 05d14ae7f6d5b52dcc7c601d35331dcc Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: Inter-Asia Intermediality: A Two-Part International Workshop in the discussion LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian/forum/topic/cfp-inter-asia-intermediality-a-two-part-international-workshop-2/ Thu, 21 Oct 2021 01:26:08 -0400 Inter-Asia Intermediality: A Two-Part International Workshop
Conveners: Brian Bernards (USC) and Elmo Gonzaga (CUHK)
Part 1: University of Southern California (Los Angeles), May 20-21, 2022
Part 2: Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 10-11, 2022
Call for Papers
Over the past two decades, intermediality and inter-Asia (much like…[Read more]

]]> 0 e89167463344641d44526ba4c005cb7a Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Adapting Shakespeare: shattering stereotypes of Asian women onstage and onscreen." Oxford University Press blog, July 5, 2021 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1744966/ Wed, 07 Jul 2021 03:59:34 -0400 Gender roles in Shakespeare’s plays take on new meanings when they are embodied by Asian actors. Learning more about Asian approaches to performance not only enriches our worldview but also makes Asian cultures less abstract and Asian people more relatable as fellow human beings. Reflecting the idea that strength and empowerment can take many f…[Read more]

]]> 0 b3c81133492697d1098f1a3c8ab2d09a Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Five themes in Asian Shakespeare adaptations," Oxford University Press blog, February 16, 2021 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1744963/ Wed, 07 Jul 2021 03:53:15 -0400 Since the nineteenth century, stage and film directors have mounted hundreds of adaptations of Shakespeare drawn on East Asian motifs, and by the late twentieth century, Shakespeare had become one of the most frequently performed playwrights in East Asia. There are five striking themes surrounding cultural, racial, and gender dynamics. Gender…[Read more]

]]> 0 81a556fdf6c4a345cfe11ebd47a8fa1f Thomas Mazanec deposited Of Admonition and Address: Right-Hand Inscriptions (Zuoyouming) from Cui Yuan to Guanxiu in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1742500/ Sat, 19 Jun 2021 02:43:21 -0400 This essay traces the development of the right-hand inscription (zuoyouming 座右銘) from its birth in the second century CE through its culmination as a complex literary subgenre in the tenth. Over the course of these eight centuries, right-hand inscriptions were used by some of the most prominent poets of their respective eras, including Cui Yuan…[Read more]

]]> 0 1fe670c2235f5cfe9da1453c75b0992a Alexa Alice Joubin deposited University of Chicago East Asia by the Book! Author Talk: Shakespeare and East Asia, Tuesday May 25, 2021 at 5 pm CDT / 6 pm EDT in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1738119/ Thu, 13 May 2021 03:53:44 -0400 Register at https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jyEzkIZYQZ6bKzjjr3faZg :::: The University of Chicago East Asia by the Book! Author Talks is proud to present a book launch of Alexa Alice Joubin’s Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press). Chair: Haun Saussy (University of Chicago). Discussant: Michael Saenger (Southwestern…[Read more]

]]> 0 53535e4edd34da97630d8b7af5d0d170 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Fulbright Snapshot: Snapshot: Shakespeare & East Asia by Alexa Alice Joubin, March 24, 2021 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1732637/ Thu, 25 Mar 2021 04:07:22 -0400 Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford, 2021) explores distinctive themes in post-1950s Asian-themed performances and adaptations of Shakespeare. In this Snapshot, Alexa Alice Joubin discusses the book and the importance of wider research into Global Shakespeares.

]]> 0 e486487d21cb1a5ef928b478ef474679 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "The Roots of Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S." George Washington University Department of English Blog, March 23, 2021 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1732627/ Thu, 25 Mar 2021 03:50:51 -0400 COVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of a group of people based on their perceived social value—in the United States in the cultural and political life. This article that analyzes the language of racism and misogyny. It also offers strategies for inclusion during and after the pandemic. Racialized thinking is ins…[Read more]

]]> 0 5568f950275e7887f50be5e362624ab5 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Margaret Hillenbrand. Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China. Chinese Literature Today 9.2 (2020): 89-90 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1730988/ Thu, 11 Mar 2021 04:04:14 -0500 Western observers often attribute Chinese suppression of undesirable information to state crackdowns on dissidents, pervasive censorship apparatus, and even self-censorship. For contemporary Chinese citizens under a certain age, Tiananmen Square protests allegedly did not happen. The PRC leadership’s private lives are shrouded in secrecies, m…[Read more]

]]> 0 e0252e496556980e38c75f5a1c5a600d Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Five themes in Asian Shakespeare adaptations," Oxford University Press blog, February 16, 2021 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1727903/ Thu, 18 Feb 2021 03:53:16 -0500 Since the nineteenth century, stage and film directors have mounted hundreds of adaptations of Shakespeare drawn on East Asian motifs, and by the late twentieth century, Shakespeare had become one of the most frequently performed playwrights in East Asia. There are five striking themes surrounding cultural, racial, and gender dynamics. Gender…[Read more]

]]> 0 d81313444c6cfb69543a356af13919d8 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press, 2021) in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1727641/ Tue, 16 Feb 2021 02:38:22 -0500 Four themes distinguish post-1950s East Asian cinemas and theaters from works in other parts of the world: Japanese innovations in sound and spectacle; Sinophone uses of Shakespeare for social reparation; the reception of South Korean presentations of gender identities in film and touring productions; and multilingual, disability, and racial…[Read more]

]]> 0 5e2381145914a1af4c5ba954b833db8b Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "The Roots of Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.: The Pandemic and ‘Yellow Peril’." Global Social Security Review Vol. 15 (Winter 2020): 50-59 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1723384/ Sat, 16 Jan 2021 03:48:45 -0500 Scroll down to read the Korean, followed by English, versions :::::: COVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of a group of people based on their perceived social value—in the United States in the cultural and political life. Offering strategies for inclusion during and after the pandemic, this article analyzes the his…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ada3db42348867f0c9e3e19104afa94 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Screening Social Justice: Performing Reparative Shakespeare against Vocal Disability." Adaptation, October 2020: 1-19 in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1711510/ Fri, 09 Oct 2020 04:05:21 -0400 Many screen and stage adaptations of the classics are informed by a philosophical investment in literature’s reparative merit, a preconceived notion that performing the canon can make one a better person. Inspirational narratives, in particular, have instrumentalized the canon to serve socially reparative purposes. Social recuperation of disabled…[Read more]

]]> 0 e413daa51ed93feb33b8914f3f64aaae Thomas Mazanec deposited Review: The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian'an and the Three Kingdoms, by Xiaofei Tian in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1707441/ Sat, 05 Sep 2020 02:27:52 -0400 Review of The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms, by Xiaofei Tian (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018)

]]> 0 d4d94df5ce28c007c69d45440be5f44e Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Epilogue, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009, 2011, 2015). Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1700953/ Tue, 21 Jul 2020 04:06:49 -0400 The epilogue tackles the ramifications of these new modes of inscribing temporally and visually ambiguous articulations of Shakespeare and China into a global vernacular in theater (Lin Zhaohua’s Richard III) and cinema (Feng Xiaogang’s The Banquet). A paradox of infatuation with Asian visuality and rejection of ethnic authenticity emerged in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 b1a990bb9b1c2d95c89e64139386fd35 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Chapter 1, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009, 2011, 2015). Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in the group LLC East Asian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1700945/ Tue, 21 Jul 2020 04:00:34 -0400 This chapter, “Owning Chinese Shakespeares,” pursues the critical concept of localization and critiques the fidelity-derived discourse about cultural ownership. How were Chinese Shakespeares used as a kind of staged utopia of modernity?

Underlying this study are three related lines of inquiry united by what might be called locality criticism, t…[Read more]

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