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Bernards, Brian
East Asian Languages and Cultures, USC
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
Modern Chinese and Southeast Asian literature and cinema, Sinophone studies, and postcolonial studies. Forthcoming book, Writing the South Seas, examines the colonial and postcolonial formation of the Nanyang, the “South Seas,” as a transnational and translingual literary trope in the modern literatures of China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand.
Publications
Book
- Bernards, B. (2015). Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.
- 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 pp. 325-338. New York: Columbia University Press.
Journal Article
- Bernards, B. (2014). From Diasporic Nationalism to Transcolonial Consciousness: Lao She's Singaporean Satire, Little Po's Birthday. Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. Vol. 26 (1), pp. 1-40.
- Bernards, B. (2013). "Shuangxiang de hunzaxing: lun lengzhan shiqi Tai Hua xiaoshuo zhong de 'Taihua'" [Bidirectional Hybridity: "Thaification" in Cold War-Era Sinophone Thai Fiction]. Zhongshan renwen xuebao [Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities]. Vol. 35, pp. 127-141.
- Bernards, B. (2013). "Beyond Diaspora and Multiculturalism: Recuperating Creolization in Postcolonial Sinophone Malaysian Literature". Postcolonial Studies. Vol. 15 (3), pp. 311-329.
New Courses Developed
- ARLT 100g, 105g: Southeast Asian Literature and Film, Arts and Letters, 2011-
- EALC 380: Transnational 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
Honors and Awards
- USC or School/Dept Award for Teaching, USC Dornsife General Education Teaching Award, Fall 2014
- 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
Featured Articles
September 23, 2020
As the dance over control of TikTok gets more complicated, last week it came out that the U.S. government has asked American-based video gaming companies where China’s Tencent is an owner or investor to detail how they handle the data of American players.
Events
October 15, 2020 - 4:00pm
Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for a book talk with author David Lampton. His new book examines China’s effort to create an intercountry railway system connecting China and its seven Southeast Asian neighbors.