Shu-mei Shih

Professor

shih@humnet.ucla.edu

(310) 794-8944

Royce 241B

Shu-mei Shih (Professor, with a joint appointment in Asian Languages and Cultures and Asian American Studies) teaches in the areas of modern and contemporary Chinese literature, sinophone literature, Asian American literature, literary theory, feminism, Marxism, and transnational studies. She has published articles in numerous journals such as PMLA, Journal of Asian Studies, differences, positions, Signs, and New Formations, and is the author of The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937 (University of California Press, 2001). A second book entitled Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific is forthcoming from the University of California Press in early 2007. She recently edited a special issue of the journal Postcolonial Studies (2003) with the title "Globalization and Taiwan's (In)significance," co-edited a special issue of Chung-Wai Literary Monthly (2004) with the title, "Third World and Transnational Feminism," and co-edited, with Françoise Lionnet, Minor Transnationalism (Duke University Press, 2005).

She is working on several new projects, including editing a special issue of PMLA entitled "Comparative Racialization" (2008), a co-edited book, Creolization of Theory, and a couple of monographs, tentatively entitled Trialectics: A book of Cross-cultural Questions and The Cultures of Postsocialism in China. Having co-directed the University of California Multicampus Research Group on Transnational and Transcolonial Studies for seven years (1999-2006), she currently co-directs UCLA's Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in the Humanities with her collaborator Françoise Lionnet. The Mellon project examines minor and minority cultures from comparative perspectives and its project title is "Cultures in Transnational Perspective."