Shu-mei Shih

Professor

shih@humnet.ucla.edu

(310) 794-8944

Royce 241B

Professor Shu-mei Shih has a split appointment in the Department of Comparative Literature, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian American Studies.  She currently co-directs the “Cultures in Transnational Perspective”  Mellon Postdoctoral Program in the Humanities. (http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/mellon).  Her publications include:

Books:

• Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader (co-editor with Chien-hsin Tsai and Brian Bernards).  Columbia University Pres, forthcoming.
  

• Creolization of Theory (co-editor with Françoise Lionnet).  Duke University Press, 2011.
• http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=19648
  

• Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific
  

• Minor Transnationalism (co-editor with Françoise Lionnet). Duke University Press, 2005.  Second printing, 2009.
  

• The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937  (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001).   
• http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520220645
  

• Editor with an Introduction, special issue entitled “Comparative Racialization,” PMLA 123:5 (November 2008). (430pp.)
  

• Editor, special issue entitled “Minor Transnationalism” featuring selected translations from the book Minor Transnationalism (above) into Mandarin with a new introduction, Chung Wai Literary Monthly 36: 2 (June 2007), 13-120.
  

• Co-Editor with Ying-ying Chien and with an Introduction, “Third World/Transnational Feminist Practice,” special issue of Chung Wai Literary Monthly 中外文學, 33: 2 (July 2004).
  

• Editor with an Introduction, "Globalization: Taiwan’s (In)significance," special issue of Postcolonial Studies 6: 2 (July 2003).
  

• “The Concept of the Sinophone” PMLA (May 2011).
  

• “Translating Feminism: Taiwan, Spivak, A-Wu,” lectora: revista de dones I textualitat 16 (Fall, 2010), 35-57.  (Translated into Spanish)
  

• “Against Diaspora: The Sinophone as Places of Cultural Production,” appearing in:
  

• “Racializing Area Studies, Defetishizing China,” for special issue “Area and Civilizational Difference: Biopolitics, Geopolitics, History,” in positions: east asia cultures critique, forthcoming.
  

• “Is the Post in Postsocialism the Post in Posthumanism?,” special issue on “China and the Human,” Social Text (Winter 2012), forthcoming.
  

• “Theory, Asia, and the Sinophone,” Postcolonial Studies 13:4 (Fall 2010) 465-484.
  

• “Comparative Racialization: An Introduction,” PMLA 123:5 (October 2008), 1347-1362.  
  

• “Hong Kong Literature as Sinophone Literature,” Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese. Vols. 8.2-9.1 (2008), 12-18.  (lead essay)
  

• “Global Literature and the Technologies of Recognition,” PMLA 119: 1 (January 2004), 16-30.  (lead essay).  “Reply” to the forum on my essay, PMLA 119: 3 (May 2004), 555-556. (Translated into Mandarin in China and Taiwan)
  

• “Globalization and the (In)significance of Taiwan,” Postcolonial Studies 6:2 (Summer 2003), 1-12.
  

• "Towards an Ethics of Transnational Encounter, or 'When' Does a 'Chinese' Woman Become a 'Feminist'?" differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies 13:2 (Summer 2002), 90-126. (Translated into Mandarin, Turkish, and Spanish)
  

• "Globalization and Minoritization: Ang Lee and the Politics of Flexibility," New  Formations: A Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics, 40 (Spring 2000), 86-101.