GÉRALDINE A. FISS, Ph.D. East Asian Languages and Cultures University of Southern California Trousdale Parkway, THH 356 F Los Angeles, CA 90089-0357 1429 Oneonta Knoll South Pasadena, CA 91030 (626) 500-6223 [email protected] EDUCATION Harvard University, PhD 2009 East Asian Languages and Civilizations Concentration Fields: Modern Chinese Literature, Intellectual History and Film; Late Imperial Chinese Literature and Thought; Tokugawa and Meiji Japanese History and Thought Dissertation: Textual Travels and Traveling Texts: Tracing Encounters with German Culture, Literature and Thought in Late Qing and Early Republican China. Smith College, BA 1997 cum laude with highest honors Major: East Asian Languages and Literatures Minor: German Literature and Culture Studies CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Southern California Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, 2010 - 2015. RESEARCH SPECIALIZATIONS Early Modern, Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, Poetry, Intellectual History and Film East-West and Intra-Asian Literary, Aesthetic and Cinematic Relations Chinese-German Comparative Literature and Culture Studies Translation and Modernization in China and East Asia Chinese and Transnational Modernisms The Dynamics of Classical East Asian Thought in Modern Literature and Culture Chinese and East Asian Women’s Literature and Film East Asian Ecocriticism, Ecoliterature and Ecocinema LANGUAGES Mandarin Chinese: advanced level of fluency Modern Japanese: intermediate level of fluency Classical Chinese and Latin: reading knowledge English, German, French and Swedish: native fluency BOOK MANUSCRIPT Fiss, Géraldine. Textual Travels and Traveling Texts: Encounters with German Culture and Ideas in Early Twentieth Century China. Book manuscript in process of revision and review for publication. Géraldine Fiss C.V., page 2 PUBLICATIONS Fiss, Géraldine. “Feminine and Masculine Dimensions of Feminist Thought and Transcultural Modernism in Republican China.” Frontiers of Literary Studies in China Special Issue Nation, Gender and Transcultural Modernism in Republican China, volume 8, issue 1, 101-125. Leiden: Brill, 2014. Fiss, Géraldine. “From Du Fu to Rilke and Back: Feng Zhi’s Modernist Aesthetics and Poetic Practice.” Modernism in Chinese Poetry. Leiden: Brill, in press 2015. Fiss, Géraldine. “Dismembering the New Woman: Expressionist Visuality and Literary Innovation in the Works of Mu Shiying.” Transnational Modernism and Urban Conflict in the Interwar Era. Routledge, in press 2015. Fiss, Géraldine. “Münchhausen Travels to China: Xu Nianci Transforms a German Tale into Chinese Science Fiction.” A New Literary History of Modern China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, in press 2015. PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS “Three Ways of Seeing: Expressions of Women’s Consciousness in the Cinematic Art of Li Yu, Huang Ji and Ji Dan.” in process of submission to Frontiers of Literary Studies in China Special Issue Women, Writing and Visuality in Contemporary China (forthcoming in 2016). “The Creative Tensions of Chinese Modernism: Teaching Lu Xun’s Short Stories and Prose Poetry.” in process of submission to Approaches to Teaching the Works of Lu Xun (MLA edited volume, forthcoming in 2016). “The Liberation of the Feminine in the Post-Mao Era: Zhang Kangkang, Zhang Xinxin and Zhang Jie.” in process of submission to Teaching Twentieth-Century Chinese Women’s Writing (MLA edited volume, forthcoming in 2016). “Engaging the Past to Address the Present: Hua Hai’s Ecopoetic Interventions.” in process of submission to Interlaced Agencies and Material Ecocriticism in China. (New York: Lexington Books, forthcoming in 2016). “Rilke in China Today: A Look at a Poetic Transference of Ideas.” in process of submission to Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC). “A Mirror of Insight through Aesthetic Description: Kang Youwei’s Diary of a Journey to Germany.” in process of submission to Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review. “Reconfiguring the wenyan Tale: Xu Nianci’s Aesthetic Innovations in a Late Qing Science Fiction Text.” in process of submission to Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. “Fulfilling an Exile’s Burden: Liao Yiwu’s Literary Life in German Translation.” in process of submission to Comparative Literature Studies. WORKING PAPERS “Trans-Cultural Connections in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literary Feminism.” “Femininity as Counter-Discourse in the Fiction of Zhang Ailing and Wang Anyi.” “Schnitzlerian Fin-de-Siècle Decadence and Expressionist Visuality in Modernist Fiction and Film of 1930’s Shanghai.” Géraldine Fiss C.V., page 3 “The Art of Contemporary Chinese Women Documentary Filmmakers.” “Images of China’s Youth in Post-Sixth Generation Independent Films.” TEACHING EXPERIENCE EALC 499 Writing Women in Modern China, Instructor, Fall 2013. University of Southern California Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. Designed, developed and taught new upper-level undergraduate literature and film course. Formal teaching rating: 4.83/5. EALC 499 The Fantastic in Modern East Asian Literature and Film, Instructor, Fall 2011. University of Southern California Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. Designed, developed and taught new upper-level undergraduate literature and film course. Formal teaching rating: 4.5/5. EAS 97ab Introduction to East Asian Civilizations (The Sophomore Tutorial in East Asian Studies), Head Teaching Fellow, Fall 2003 and Spring 2004. Harvard University Core Program. Oversaw teaching assistants, all aspects of course organization and taught two sophomore-level undergraduate sections in course by Professor Mikael Adolphson. HSTR 365 The Cultural Revolution in China, Teaching Fellow, Spring 2003. Harvard University Department of History, Spring 2003. Developed and taught two junior-level undergraduate sections in course by Professor Roderick MacFarquhar. Chinese Literature 224r Cultural China in Contemporary Perspectives, Head Teaching Fellow, Fall 2002. Harvard University Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Oversaw teaching assistants, all aspects of course organization and taught two junior-level undergraduate sections in course by Professor Leo Ou-fan Lee. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE Editor, Frontiers of Literary Studies in China Special Issue W omen, W riting and Visuality in Contemporary China. Work in progress; to be published in spring 2016. Coordinated all aspects of production of this special issue, such as solicitation and selection of contributors, oversight of the review process, and editing of manuscripts. Peer Reviewer of Manuscripts, ASIANetwork Exchange, 2015 – present. Peer Reviewer of Manuscripts, ISLE (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment), 2013 – present. Peer Reviewer of Manuscripts, The Rocky M ountain Review of Language and Literature, 2010 – present. RMMLA 2015, Santa Fe, New Mexico Chair and Presenter, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Conference, October 2015. Will chair panel entitled “Voice and Agency: Women and Children in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature and Film.” Will present paper entitled ““From the Margins to the Center: New Women’s Cinema in China.” Géraldine Fiss C.V., page 4 USC EALC 2015, University of Southern California, Los Angeles Chair and Discussant, Memory, Moment and Mobility in East Asia: USC East Asian Languages and Cultures Graduate Conference, April 2015. Chaired and served as discussant for panel entitled “Connections to the Past: Adaptations in the Modern Era.” AAS 2015, Chicago, IL Convener, Chair and Presenter, Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference, March 2015. Convened and chaired panel “Feminism and Beyond: Contemporary East Asian Women’s Literature and Film.” Will present paper entitled “Eulogizing the Marginalized: New Modes of Consciousness in Chinese Women’s Cinema.” RMMLA 2014, Boise, ID Convener, Chair and Presenter, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Conference, October 2014. Organized and co-chaired three panels in Asian and Comparative Literature and Film entitled “Ecology and Landscape in Asian Literature and Film.” Presented paper entitled “Engaging the Past to Address the Present: Hua Hai’s Ecopoetic Interventions.” RMMLA 2013, Vancouver, WA Convener and Chair, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Conference, October 2013. Coordinated and chaired two panels in Chinese Literature and Film Since 1900 entitled “Eco-Aesthetics in Modern Chinese Literature and Film.” AAS 2013, San Diego, CA Convener and Presenter, Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference, March 2013. Co-coordinated panel “Nation, Gender and Transcultural Modernism in Republican China” and presented paper entitled “ReExamining the Feminine and Masculine Dimensions of Feminist Consciousness in Republican China.” ACCL 2012, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Chair and Presenter, Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL) Conference at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, December 2012. Chaired panel “Globalization, Transnational Space and Temporal Interrogations” and presented paper entitled “Images of China’s Youth in Post-Sixth Generation Independent Films.” PAMLA 2012, Seattle University, Washington, WA Presiding Officer, Chair and Presenter, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference, October 2012. Coordinated and chaired two panels “Re-examining Modernism in East Asia: Readings from China and Vietnam” and “Re-examining Modernism in East Asia: Readings from Japan and Korea.” Presented paper entitled “Feng Zhi’s Creative Integration of Rilke’s Modernist Poetics.” PAMLA 2011, Scripps College, Claremont, CA Presiding Officer, Chair and Presenter, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference, November 2011. Chaired two panels “Asian Literature and Culture I and II: Transcultural Practice in Modern China” and “New Visions on the Silver Screen.” Presented paper entitled “Reconfiguring the wenyan Tale: Xu Nianci’s Aesthetic Innovations in a Late Qing Science Fiction Text.” RMMLA 2011, Scottsdale, Arizona Convener, Chair and Presenter, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Conference, October 2011. Co-organized four panels and chaired two panels in Asian Comparative Literature and Film. Presented paper entitled “From Du Fu to Rilke and Back: Feng Zhi’s Modernist Aesthetics and Poetic Practice” on panel “Gender, Language and Class: Border Crossings in Modern Chinese Poetry.” Géraldine Fiss C.V., page 5 ISSN 2011, St. Louis, Missouri Convener and Presenter, International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) Conference, April 2011. Organized panel “Narrative and Media in Transculturation.” Presented paper entitled “Visions of the Sublime: Emotional Aesthetics in Late Qing Fiction and Literary Thought. RMMLA 2007, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Convener and Chair, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Conference, October 2007. Coordinated and chaired panels “Innovation, Transformation and Emancipation in Late Qing Fiction,” “Historical Reflection in Chinese Film,” “Articulating Experiences of the Margins: Tibet, Taiwan and Hong Kong in Chinese-Language Literature,” and “Three Moments in Time: Texts from the Late Qing, Cultural Revolution and the Present.” AAS 2007, Boston, MA Convener and Presenter, Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference, March 2007. Co-coordinated panel “Late Qing Literary Transformations: Appropriating the Foreign and Reanimating the Tradition.” Presented paper entitled “Tracing Aesthetics of the Modern Fantastic in Late Qing Science Fiction.” HEAS 2002, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Convener and Presenter, Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Annual Conference, February 2002. Coorganized Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, covering all fields of study related to China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Presented paper entitled “Lifting the Veil of Reality: A Reading of Shi Zhecun’s texts.” BOOK REVIEWS Fiss, Géraldine. Review of Liang Luo. The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China: Tian Han and the Intersection of Performance and Politics. The University of Michigan, 2014. The Journal of Asian Studies, in press 2015. Fiss, Géraldine. Review of Heather Inwood. Verse Going Viral: China’s New Media Scenes. University of Washington Press, 2014. The China Quarterly, in press 2015. Fiss, Géraldine. Review of David Porter, ed. Comparative Early Modernities, 1100-1800. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Comparative Literature Studies, in press 2015. Fiss, Géraldine. Review of Sabina Knight. Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2012. China Review International, in press 2015. Fiss, Géraldine. Review of Annelise Finegan Wasmoen, transl. The Last Lover by Can Xue. Yale University Press, 2014. Chinese Literature Today, in press 2015. Fiss, Géraldine. Review of Xiaojue Wang. Modernity with a Cold War Face: Reimagining Nation in Chinese Literature across the 1949 Divide. Harvard University Press, 2013. Chinese Literature Today, in press 2015. Fiss, Géraldine. Review of John Balcom, transl. Stone Cell by Lo Fu. Zephyr Press, 2013. Chinese Literature Today, in press 2015. Fiss, Géraldine. Review of Howard Goldblatt, transl. Huang Chunming: Stories. Research Centre for Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013. Renditions, in press 2015. Fiss, Géraldine. Review of Alexa Huang. Weltliteratur und Welttheater: Ästhetischer Humanismus in der kulturellen Globalisierung. Transcript Verlag Bielefeld, 2012. Cahiers Élisabéthains, spring 2014, volume 85. 136-139. Géraldine Fiss C.V., page 6 Fiss, Géraldine. Review of Theodore Huters. Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China. University of Hawai’i Press, 2005. The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, fall 2006, volume 60, number 2. 71-74. Fiss, Géraldine. Review of Patrick Hanan. Chinese Fiction of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Columbia University Press, 2004. The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, fall 2006, volume 60, number 2. 74-76. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS “Three Ways of Seeing: Expressions of Women’s Consciousness in the Cinematic Art of Li Yu, Huang Ji and Ji Dan.” Will deliver on panel entitled “Voice and Agency: Women and Children in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature and Film” at Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 2015. “Rilke in China Today: A Look at a Poetic Transference of Ideas.” Will deliver on panel “Travel and Translation: Transcultural Encounters in Chinese Poetry and Fiction in the Long Twentieth Century” at the Association for Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL) Conference: Traveling Text/Image/Media, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, June 2015. “Eulogizing the Marginalized: New Modes of Consciousness in Li Yu’s Women’s Cinema.” Delivered on panel “Feminism and Beyond: Contemporary East Asian Women’s Literature and Film” at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference, Chicago, IL, March 2015. “Traditional Chinese Ecological Thought and Hua Hai’s Online Poetry.” Delivered on Ecocriticism panel at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Convention, University of California Riverside, October 2014. “Engaging the Past to Address the Present: Hua Hai’s Ecopoetic Interventions.” Delivered on Asian Comparative Literature and Film panel “Ecology and Landscape in Asian Literature and Film: Ecopoetics” at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Conference, Boise, Idaho, October 2014. “Intertextual Echos in Contemporary Chinese Poetry.” Delivered at the Symposium of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP), Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, June 2014. “Dismembering the New Woman: Expressionist Visuality and Literary Innovation in the Works of Mu Shiying.” Delivered in seminar “Cultural Capital in an Era of Paradigm Shift: East Asian Literature in the Early Twentieth Century” at the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference, New York City, NY, March 2014. “Transcultural Connections in Early Twentieth Century Chinese Literary Feminism.” Delivered at The Conference on Translation and Modernization in Late 19th and early 20th Century East Asia, The Research Centre for Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, May 2013. “Fulfilling an Exile’s Burden: Liao Yiwu’s Literary Life in German Translation.” Delivered in seminar “Traveling Texts: Western Translations of Chinese Literature” at the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference, Toronto, Canada, April 2013. “Re-Examining the Feminine and Masculine Dimensions of Feminist Consciousness in Republican China.” Delivered on panel “Nation, Gender and Transcultural Modernism in Republican China” at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference, San Diego, CA, March 2013. Géraldine Fiss C.V., page 7 “Mo Yan and Márquez: A Resonance of Form, Technique and Aesthetic Purpose.” Delivered on panel “Culture and Society” at USC and UCLA Joint East Asian Studies Center (JEASC) Colloquium on Asia and the Global South, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, February 2013. “Images of China’s Youth in Post-Sixth Generation Independent Films.” Delivered on panel “Revisions of Contemporary Cinema and Culture” at the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL) Conference at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, December 2012. “The Periphery of Feminine Reality in the City: Modernist Techniques in the Fiction of Zhang Ailing and Wang Anyi.” Delivered in seminar “The Feminine as a Counter-Discourse to Chinese Modernity” at the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting at Brown University, Providence, RI, March 2012. “The Formation of an Early Modern Transcultural Narrative Aesthetic in China.” Delivered on panel “Translation and World Literature” at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, Seattle, WA, January 2012. “Feng Zhi’s Creative Integration of Rilke’s Modernist Poetics.” Delivered on panel “East Asian Literature and World Literature” at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, Seattle, WA, January 2012. “Reconfiguring the wenyan Tale: Xu Nianci’s Aesthetic Innovations in a Late Qing Science Fiction Text.” Delivered on panel “Asian Literature and Culture I: Transcultural Practice in Modern China” at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Convention, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, November 2011. “From Du Fu to Rilke and Back: Feng Zhi’s Modernist Aesthetics and Poetic Practice.” Delivered on panel “Gender, Language, and Class: Border Crossings in Modern Chinese Poetry” at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Conference, Scottsdale, AZ, October 2011. Invited Talk entitled “Akutagawa and Kurosawa: Themes, Issues and Dramatic Strategies.” Delivered at Rashōmon Colloquium, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, August 2011. “A Mirror of Insight through Aesthetic Description: Kang Youwei’s Reflections on German Culture in his Travelogue Bu Deguo youji.” Delivered on panel “Memory and Myth” at the 2011 Forum “CrossCurrents: Movement, Migration and Mobility in East Asia,” UC-Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies and Korea University (IEAS-RIKS), Berkeley, CA, June 2011. “Cai Yuanpei’s Ethical Ideals and Vision of Aesthetic Education.” Delivered on panel “Intellectual Currents in China” at the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) and Western Conference of the Association of Asian Studies (WCAAS) Joint Annual Conference, Pomona College, Pomona, CA, June 2011. “Visions of the Sublime: Emotional Aesthetics in Late Qing Fiction and Literary Thought.” Delivered on panel “Narrative and Media in Transculturation” at the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) Conference, St. Louis, WA, April 2011. “Music and Poetic Space in Feng Zhi and Rilke.” Delivered on panel “Modernism in Chinese Poetry” at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference, Honolulu, Hawai’i, March 2011. Géraldine Fiss C.V., page 8 “Transformation of Consciousness in a Late Qing Tale of Wonder: Zhang Deyi’s Pioneering Reform Proposals in his Travelogue W ushuqi.” Delivered on panel “Chinese Literature Before 1900” at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Conference, Albuquerque, NM, October 2010. “Aesthetics of the Modern Fantastic in Late Qing Science Fiction.” Delivered on panel “Late Qing Literary Transformations: Appropriating the Foreign and Reanimating the Tradition” at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference, Boston, MA, March 2007. “The Relationship between Xu Nianci’s Theoretical and Fictional Texts.” Delivered at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Conference, Tucson, AZ, October 2006. “Tales Told Twice: Imitation and Transgression in the Works of Meiji and Late Qing TranslatorReformers.” Delivered at the University of Toronto East Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 2006. “Tracing the Consciousness of Self in Zhang Ailing’s Love in a Fallen City and Wang Anyi’s Brothers and Love on a Barren M ountain.” Delivered at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Conference, Coeur d’Alene, ID, October 2005. “Fatal Attraction: The Trauma of the Erotic Gaze in the Works of Shi Zhecun and Mu Shiying.” Delivered at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Conference, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, October 2003. “Lifting the Veil of Reality: A Reading of Shi Zhecun’s Exemplary Conduct of V irtuous W omen.” Delivered at the Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, February 2002. FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS USC Postdoctoral Research Associate Fellowship USC Postdoctoral Scholar Travel and Training Award Harvard Graduate Society Dissertation Completion Fellowship Harvard Graduate Society Pre-Dissertation Fellowship Harvard University Research Grant Harvard Reischauer Institute Summer Study Grant Harvard University Research Fellowship Smith College East Asian Languages and Literatures Prize Smith College Outstanding English Award Smith College Outstanding Service Award PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Modern Language Association of America (MLA) American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL) Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) 2010-2015 2014 2006-2008 2004-2006 2003 2002 2001 1997 1996 1995 Géraldine Fiss C.V., page 9 British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS) German Association for Asian Studies (DGA) Association Française d’Études Chinoises (AFEC) REFERENCES Professor David Wang Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Harvard University 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 496-0925 [email protected] Professor Dominic Cheung Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature University of Southern California 3501 Trousdale Parkway, THH 356 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0357 (213) 740-3708 [email protected] Professor Wilt Idema Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Harvard University 2 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 (31) 71-527-2171 [email protected] [email protected] Professor Christopher Lupke Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures Washington State University Thompson 101 C Pullman, WA 91164-2610 (509) 335-2755 [email protected]
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