Faculty

Education

• B.A. , University of Washington, 2002
• M.A. , Columbia University, 2005
• Ph.D. Asian Languages & Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles, 2011



Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Brian's research interests include modern Chinese and Southeast Asian literature and cinema, transnational Sinophone and Sinitic-language cultural studies, and postcolonial studies. His current manuscript project examines the colonial and postcolonial formation of Nanyang, the “South Seas,” as a transnational and translingual literary trope in the modern literatures of China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand.

Research Specialties

modern Chinese and Southeast Asian literature and cinema, Sinophone studies, postcolonial studies



Publications




Book

• Bernards, Brian, Shu-mei Shih, and Chien-hsin Tsai (Ed.). (2013). Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader. New York: Columbia University Press.



Book Chapter

• Bernards, B. (2013). "Plantation and Rainforest: Chang Kuei-hsing and a South Seas Discourse of Coloniality and Nature". Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader New York: Columbia University Press.



Journal Article

• Bernards, B. (2012). "Beyond Diaspora and Multiculturalism: Recuperating Creolization in Postcolonial Sinophone Malaysian Literature". Postcolonial Studies. Vol. 15 (3)



Advisement

Office Hours

Tuesdays : 10-12


New Courses Developed

• EALC 380: Transpacific Chinese Literatures, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Spring 2013   
• EALC 530: Race, Ethnicity, and Multiculturalism in East Asia, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Spring 2013   
• EALC 150g: Global Chinese Cinema and Cultural Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Fall 2012   
• ARLT 100g: Southeast Asian Literature and Film, Arts and Letters, 2011-2012  



Honors and Awards

• UCLA Asia Institute Graduate Fellowship, 2010-2011   
• Fulbright Award, Fulbright-Hays Research Grant, 2008-2009   
• University of California Pacific Rim Research Program Grant, 2008-2009   



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