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Brian Christopher BernardsAssistant Professor of East Asian Languages and CulturesContact Information E-mail: bernards@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-3706 Office: THH 356P Office Hours: Tuesdays : 10-12 LINKS Curriculum Vitae |
Education |
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 Ph.D. Asian Languages & Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles, 2011
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M.A. , Columbia University, 2005
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B.A. , University of Washington, 2002
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Description of Research |
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Summary Statement of Research Interests |
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| 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 |
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| modern Chinese and Southeast Asian literature and cinema, Sinophone studies, postcolonial studies | |
Publications |
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Book |
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Bernards, Brian, Shu-mei Shih, and Chien-hsin Tsai (Ed.).
(2013).
Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader. New York: Columbia University Press.
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Book Chapter |
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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.
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Journal Article |
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Bernards, B.
(2012).
"Beyond Diaspora and Multiculturalism: Recuperating Creolization in Postcolonial Sinophone Malaysian Literature". Postcolonial Studies.
Vol. 15 (3)
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Advisement |
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Office Hours |
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Tuesdays : 10-12 |
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New Courses Developed |
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EALC 380: Transpacific Chinese Literatures, East Asian Languages and Cultures,
Spring
2013
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EALC 530: Race, Ethnicity, and Multiculturalism in East Asia, East Asian Languages and Cultures,
Spring
2013
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EALC 150g: Global Chinese Cinema and Cultural Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures,
Fall
2012
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ARLT 100g: Southeast Asian Literature and Film, Arts and Letters, 2011-2012
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Honors and Awards |
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UCLA Asia Institute Graduate Fellowship, 2010-2011
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Fulbright Award, Fulbright-Hays Research Grant, 2008-2009
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University of California Pacific Rim Research Program Grant, 2008-2009
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