Dr. Robert Chi

Dr. Robert Chi

Department of Comparative Studies
SUNY at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3355
Tel (631) 632-7457
Fax (631) 632-5707
rchi@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

EDUCATION

Harvard University, Department of Comparative Literature (AM 1997, PhD 2001).

Yale University, Philosophy (BA 1990).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

State University of New York at Stony Brook. Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Studies, 2002-present.

Tunghai University (Taichung, Taiwan). Instructor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, 1990-93.

SELECTED RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

“The New Taiwanese Documentary”, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 15.1 (Spring 2003).

“The Red Detachment of Women: Resenting, Regendering, Remembering”, Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes, ed. Chris Berry (London: BFI, 2003).

“A World of Sadness?”, Trauma and Cinema: Cross-Cultural Explorations, ed. E. Ann Kaplan and Ban Wang (Hong Kong: Hong Kong UP, 2003).

“Getting It On Film: Representing and Understanding History in A City of Sadness”, Tamkang Review 29.4 (Summer 1999): 47-84.

SELECTED MAGAZINE ARTICLES

“Li Zhenfan zhi mu” [Bruce Lee’s grave], Shu cheng (Shanghai, China) (July 2003): 7.

“Bide Sailesi yu xiandai Mudan ting” [Peter Sellars and a modern Peony Pavilion], Wanxiang (Shanghai, China) 1.5 (July 1999): 124-135.

INVITED LECTURES

“The New Martial Arts Century”. East Asian Cinema and the Globalization of Culture. Joint Center for East Asian Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis and Washington University in St. Louis. October 2003.

“The Mediascape in Taiwan: Contemporary Documentary Film and Video”. Interdepartmental Literature Colloquium, SUNY at Stony Brook. February 2003.

“Cinema and Public Memory”. Film Studies Center, Department of English, National Central University, Taiwan. January 2003.

"Peking Opera Blues." Intercultural Film Club, Asian American Cultural Center, Rutgers University. November 2002.

"Dust in the Wind." Department of Film Studies, Tisch School, New York University. November 2002.

“Screen Memories of 2-28”. Taiwan Focus, Asia Pacific Affairs Council, East Asian Institute, Columbia University. March 2002.

“Cinema and Public Memory in the People’s Republic of China”. Asian Cultural Studies Workshop, Humanities Center, Harvard University. December 2001.

CONFERENCES

“High Maoism: Cinema in China, 1949-1979 (Meeting at the Movies)”. Workshop on Visual Culture in Modern China. University of Washington (Seattle). May 2003.

“The Nanjing Massacre: Photographic Memories, Photographic Justice”. Memory and Violence: IV International Seminar on Ethnic Constructions and Political Violence. Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. Cortona, Italy, June 2002.

“On the Margins of the Margins: Contemporary Taiwanese Documentary Films”. Association for Asian Studies. Washington, D.C., April 2002. Also organized this panel, “Media and Performance in Contemporary Taiwan”.

“Screen Memories”. Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945: History, Culture, Memory. Columbia University. March 2002.

“What’s Special About Special Effects?” Cinema Explained to Children. Center for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University. November 2001.

“Remembering—Or Is It Forgetting?—Xianglin Sao”. Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature. Shanghai, June 2001.

“The Nanjing Massacre: Photographic Justice and Photographic Memories”. Memory and Media in and of Contemporary China. Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley. March 2001.

“Getting It On Film: Historical Trauma in Hou Hsiao-hsien and Zhang Yimou”. Modern Language Association. San Francisco, December 1998.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Columbia University, Center for Comparative Literature and Society, Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship 2001-02

U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, 1999-2000

Harvard University Asia Center, Taiwan Studies Grant, 1999-2000

Harvard University, Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, 1997-98

Harvard University, Susan Anthony Potter Prize in Comparative Literature, 1996 and 1997

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