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                                                            Selected Publications

Books

Chinese Shakespeares: A Century of Cultural Exchange

Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009), paperback and cloth editions. 350 pp.
         MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literature
         Honorable Mention, Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book in Drama and Theatre
         International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS) Colleagues' Choice Award [PDF]
          Reviews, sample pages, open-access online video archives, and more

Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia and Cyberspace, co-edited with Charles Ross (Purdue University Press, 2009). 306 pp.
          Introduction (PDF)
Class, Boundary, and Social Discourse in the Renaissance, co-edited with I-chun Wang and Mary Theis (Kaohsiung, Taiwan: Center for Humanities and Social Sciences and the College of Liberal Arts, National Sun Yat-sen University, 2007). 184 pp.

 

Editorial Projects

Asian Theatre Journal Special Issue Editor, Asian Theatre Journal, 28.1 (Spring 2011)

Special Issue Editor, Shakespeare (Journal of the British Shakespeare Association), 2013

The Shakespearean International Yearbook, general editor

Special issue "Asian Shakespeares on Screen: Two Films in Perspective," Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 4.2 (2009)


Refereed Journal Articles

"Global Shakespeare 2.0 and the Task of the Performance Archive." Shakespeare Survey 64 (2011), 38-51.
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"The Theatricality of Religious Rhetoric: Gao Xingjian and the Meaning of Exile." Theatre Journal 63.3 (2011): 365-379.
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"Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents: The Dialectics between the Global and the Local in Lao She's Fiction." MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly, 69. 1 (March 2008): 97-118.
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"Asian Shakespeares in Europe: From the Unfamiliar to the Defamiliarised." Shakespearean International Yearbook 8 (2008): 51-70
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"Shakespearean Localities and the Localities of Shakespeare Studies." Shakespeare Studies 35 (2007): 186-204
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"Shakespeare, Performance, and Autobiographical Interventions." Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism and Scholarship 24. 2 (Summer 2006): 31-47
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"Impersonation, Autobiography, and Cross-Cultural Adaptation: Lee Kuo-Hsiu's Shamlet." Asian Theatre Journal 22.1 (Spring 2005): 122-137
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Refereed Book Chapters

"Shakespeare and Translation." The Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts, ed. Mark Thornton Burnett, Adrian Streete, and Ramona Wray. Edinburgh University Press, 2011. pp. 68-87.
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"The Paradox of Female Agency." The Afterlife of Ophelia, ed. Kaara Peterson and Deanne Williams. New York: Palgrave, 2012. pp. 79-100
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"Asian American Theatre Re-imagined: Shogun Macbeth in New York." Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance, ed. Scott Newstok and Ayanna Thompson. New York: Palgrave, 2009. pp. 121-125.
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Reviewed in Theatre Journal 63.4 (2011): 671-672: "Alexander C. Y. Huang's 'Asian-American Theatre Reimagined: Shogun Macbeth in New York' is most successful at critically framing the constraints and possibilities of intercultural Shakespeare performance. Citing the Pan Asian Repertory Theatre's 2008 production, which used Japanese elements such as kabukimakeup and kyogen comic characters to generate new meanings from the play, Huang argues that Shogun Macbeth fell short of intercultural hybridity, yet 'successfully constructed a contact zone that remains open for future inscription' (125)." Review [PDF]

"Pastiche and Identity in Taiwan's Postmodern Theatre: Stan Lai and Buddhism." Taiwan Literature and History.  Ed. Kuo-Ch'ing Tu.  University of California, Santa Barbara, Center for Taiwan Studies, 2007.  213-222.
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"'No World without Verona Walls'? Shakespeare in the Provincial Cultural Marketplace." Re-Playing Shakespeare in Asia. Ed. Poonam Trivedi and Minami Ryutan. London: Routledge, 2009. pp. 251-268.
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Review Essays

"The Politics of Recognition and Comparative Literature." CLC Web: Journal of Comparative Literature and Culture 8.4 (December, 2006).
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Performance Reviews

Rev. of King Lear, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. Shakespeare: The Journal of the British Shakespeare Association 3. 2 (August 2007): 239-242
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Rev. of King Lear, Yellow Earth and Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre. Theatre Journal 59.3 (2007): 494-495.

 

Articles in Reference Works

The Oxford Companion to Theatre & Performance. Ed. Dennis Kennedy. Oxford University Press, 2010, p. 650; revised edition due out in 2012.
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The Encyclopedia of Modern China. 4 vols. Ed. David Pong, Julia Andrews, et al. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2009; two essays, approx. 2,000 words.

Illustrations Editor, The Shakespeare Encyclopedia. 5 vols. Ed. Patricia Parker. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, forthcoming in late 2009; also contributed 11 articles. Approx. 6,000 words.

Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre. 2 vols. Ed. Samuel Leiter (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007). 15 entries, approx. 7100 words.

 

Book Reviews

Rev. of Narrating China: Jia Pingwa and His Fictional World, by Yiyan Wang. Journal of Asian Studies 68.4 (2009): 1272-1274.
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Rev. of Shakespeare, Memory and Performance, ed. Peter Holland. Shakespeare Quarterly 59.4 (Winter 2008): 500-503.
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Rev. of Hitchcock with a Chinese Face: Cinematic Doubles, Oedipal Triangles, and China’s Moral Voice, by Jerome Silbergeld. China Review International 14.1 (2007): 266-269.
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Rev. of Shakespeare and the American Popular Stage, by Frances Teague. Theatre Journal 60.4 (2008): 680-681.
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Modern Language QuarterlyShakespeare BulletinWartime ShakespeareShakespeare and GenreArchiv fuer das Studium neueren Sprachen und LiteraturenShakespeareShakespeare Studies
China Review InternationalEncyclopedia of Asian Theatre

 

Digital Humanities Projects and Exhibitions

Global Shakespeares, open-access digital video archive co-founded by Alexander C. Y. Huang and Peter Donaldson (launched in 2010)

The Tempest for iPad. Collaborator (launched in 2012). Much more than a digital book, the Luminary edition of The Tempest (co-founded by Elliott Visconsi and Katehrine Rowe) is designed for social reading, authoring, and sharing, for all readers from students to professional scholars.

Shakespeare Performance in Asia, open-access digital video archive co-founded by Alexander C. Y. Huang and Peter Donaldson (launched in 2009)

GloPAD, Global Performing Arts Database at Cornell (Collaborator)

Video Curator, Imagining China: The View from Europe, 1550-1700 (curator: Timothy Billings), Folger Library, Washington, D.C., Sept. 2009-Jan. 2010.

Curator, Video Installation for the "Shakespeare Encyclopedia" Open House at the Shakespeare Association of America annual conference, Chicago, April 1-4, 2010.


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Selected Grants & Awards:

2012, Folger Institute (Washington, D.C.) short-term fellowship

2010, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) research fellowship

2009, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, publication subsidy award for monograph Chinese Shakespeares (grant to Columbia University Press)

2009, Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Comparative Literature, Penn State University

2008, Folger Institute Grant for participation in semester-long research semina

2008, Best Paper Award, Inaugural Conference of Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

2006, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Faculty Travel Grant

2006, International Shakespeare Association Travel Grant

2005, Penn State University Institute for Arts and Humanities Faculty Research Grant

2004, Association of Asian Performance Emerging Scholar Award

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Invited Lectures (selected)

        International

Edinburgh International Festival, Aug., 2011; Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III, Oct., 2011; UCLA, Feb., 2011; Cambridge Univ., Sept., 2009; Univ. Western Australia, Perth, June 2012; City Univ. of Hong Kong, May 2012; Lingnan Univ., Hong Kong, May 2012; Academia Sinica, Taipei, June 2012; Shakespeare Society of Japan (Tokyo), Oct., 2007; Seoul National Univ., June-July 2010; Singapore, Aug., 2006; Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft and European Shakespeare Research Association, Weimar, May, 2011; Universität Heidelberg, June, 2008; Univ. London SOAS, Mar., 2008; Goethe-Univ. Frankfurt am Main, Nov., 2008; Tsinghua University (Beijing), June 2005; Nanjing University Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, 2010, and more...

        U.S. and Canada

Harvard, May, 2011; Princeton, May, 2010; Columbia, Nov., 2011; New York University, Mar., 2011; Northwestern, Oct., 2010; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Dec., 2010; Univ. Victoria (Canada), Feb. 2010; Folger Shakespeare Library, Sept., 2009; Cornell, Feb., 2006; SUNY Binghamton, Nov., 2009; UC Santa Barbara, Feb., 2010; UT Austin, Oct,. 2011; Rutgers, 2005, 2007, and 2009; Boston Univ., 2010; MIT, 2010, and more...

 

TV, Radio and Media

BBC World Service "The Strand Shakespeare Special: Alexander Huang on Shakespeare" on April 23, 2012

BBC World Service "The Strand: Shakespeare in China" on April 17, 2012

Guest appearance on BBC 2's "Review Show" (Television) on 19 August 2011

Guest appearance on BBC Radio's "Classics Unwrapped," 14 August 2011

Edinburgh International Festival: “All the World’s a Stage,” The Hub, Castelhill, co-sponsored by the British Council and the Royal Society of Edinburgh; Aug. 15, 2011. [online]

"The Global Influence of Shakespeare." GW Today, November 28, 2011 [PDF]

"Bringing Shakespeare to Life,"GW Hatchet, 25 August, 2011.

"All the World's a Stage: Alex Huang at GW," 9 September, 2011.

Interviews and stories in the World Journal, Dec. 29; 2010; Jan. 8, 2011; Mar. 26, 2011.

WPSU-TV: "Reinventing Shakespeare: Lobby Talks with Actors from the London Stage, Penn State, Nov. 15 and 18, 2007.

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Conference Participation

“What Makes Language Literary?" MLA Presidential Forum, Seattle, January 6-9, 2012.

"Global Shakespeares." DHCommons Digital Humanities projects mixer, MLA, Seattle, Jan. 6-9, 2012.

Chair, “The Far East as Utopia in Early Modern English Imaginations,” Renaissance Society of America (RSA), Washington, D.C., upcoming March 22-24, 2012.

"'China' on the Diasporic Stage and Life Narrative," Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Toronto, upcoming March 15-18, 2012.

"Of Samurais and Knights-Errant: Unthinking Visuality in East Asian Shakespeare Films." World Shakespeare Congress (WSC), Prague, July 17-22, 2011.

“The Paradox of Female Agency and the Afterlife of Ophelia,” MLA, Los Angeles, Jan. 6-9, 2011.

Roundtable on “China, World Literature, and the Shape of the Humanities.” MLA, Los Angeles, Jan. 6-9, 2011.

Discussant for seminar on "Shakespeare and World Cinema," Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), Chicago, April 1-3, 2010.

"Intermediality and Performative Paratext: Shakespeare in the Archive." British Shakespeare Association (BSA). Shakespeare's Globe and King's College London, Sept. 11-13, 2009.

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     Panels and conferences organized:

Cultural Translations: Medieval / Early Modern / Postmodern, a symposium at GW, Washington, D.C., March 25, 2012

Annual Conference, Association for Asian Performance, Washington, D.C., Aug. 1-2, 2012 (keynote: Richard Nichols). Conference organizer.

The 19th Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., Nov. 4-5, 2011. Co-organizer.
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Annual Conference, Association for Asian Performance in conjunction with the ATHE, Chicago, Aug. 10-11, 2011 (100+ participants; keynote: James Brandon). Conference organizer.
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9th World Shakespeare Congress: “Workshop: Global Shakespeares in the Digital Archive.” Co-organized with Peter Donaldson. Prague, July 17-22, 2011.

Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft and European Shakespeare Research Association joint conference in Weimar: April 28–May 1, 2011. Seminar co-organized with Isabelle Schwartz-Gastine.

MAR-AAS annual conference, October 22-23, 2010
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MAR-AAS "Teaching Asia Workshop: Asia and Global Digital Media," Penn State University, Oct. 22, 2010
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"Humor, Trauma, and Histories of East Asia." Roundtable. Modern Language Association (MLA), Philadelphia, Dec. 27-30, 2009.

"Tears and Laughter in Asian Comedy." Association of Asian Performance (AAP), New York, August 7, 2009.

"Shakespeare, Appropriation, and the Ethical." Research Seminar. Shakespeare Association of America (SAA), San Diego, Apr. 5-7, 2007.

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Service to the Profession:

General Editor of the Shakespearean International Yearbook; book review editor of Chinese Literature Today; member of the MLA Committee on the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare and executive committee on East Asian languages and literatures after 1900; performance editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions; Vice President, Association of Asian Performance (AAP); Vice President, Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies (MAR/AAS); editorial board member, E.J. Brill’s series on “East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture."

Reviewer of manuscripts for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Yale University Press, Columbia University Press, Palgrave-Macmillan, Ashgate, PMLA, Shakespeare Bulletin, College Literature, positions: east asia cultures critique; MCLC: Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, MLQ, CLEAR: Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, Shakespeare: Journal of the British Shakespeare Association, Comparative Literature Studies, Comparative Drama, and other presses, journals, and funding agencies.

Member of the GW Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute (MEMSI) and Sigur Center for Asian Studies; co-editor of GW Sigur Center Papers in the Asian Humanities series; external evaluator for tenure review cases for universities in the U.S.

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Professional Affiliations:

Modern Language Association(MLA)
Association of Asian Studies (AAS)
Shakespeare Association of America (SAA)
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)

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