Eric Hayot

                                             
Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
The Pennsylvania State University

Positions Held

2007-present Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Penn State
2005-2007 Associate Professor of English, U of Arizona
2005-2007 Global Fellow, UCLA International Institute
2001-2005 Assistant Professor of English, U of Arizona
2000-2001 Assistant Professor of French and Humanities, U of Northern Iowa
1998 (spring) Visiting lecturer, Beijing Foreign Studies University (Beijing Waiguoyu Xueyuan)

Education

1999 Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature. U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
1994 M.A., English. Georgetown University.
1993 B.A., English. Georgetown University.

Languages: French, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, German (reading).

Publications

Books

In press
Sinographies: Writing China. A collection of essays edited with Haun Saussy and Steve Yao. Forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press in fall 2007.
The EverQuest Reader. A collection of essays edited with Edward Wesp. Forthcoming from Wallflower Press (UK) in fall 2007.

2004
Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel quel. (U of Michigan Press).

Articles and book chapters

In press
"Chineseness: A Prehistory of its Future." In Sinographies: Writing China.
"Introduction." With Haun Saussy and Steve Yao. In Sinographies: Writing China.
"Geography, Representation, Anthropology: Reflections on Norrathian Space." With Edward Wesp. In The EverQuest Reader.
"Introduction: Between the Virtual and the Real." With Edward Wesp. In The EverQuest Reader.

Forthcoming
"Photograface: The Image as Sign-Thing." Traces 5.

Published
2007 "Chinese Bodies, Chinese Futures." Representations 99 (Summer 2007).
2006 "Immigrating Fictions: Unfailing Mediation in Dictee and Becoming Madame Mao." Contemporary Literature 47.4 (Winter 2006): 601-635. Will be reprinted in Immigrant Fictions: Contemporary Literature in an Age of Globalization, ed. Rebecca L. Walkowitz (U of Wisconsin Press, 2007).
2006 "Bertrand Russell's Chinese Eyes." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 18.1 (2006): 120-154. A version of this essay will appear in Pacific Rim Modernisms, eds. Helen Sword and Steven G. Yao. (U of Toronto Press), and in Chinese translation in Chongxie xiandai zhuyi (Rewriting Modernism), ed. Lydia Liu. (Renmin Wenxue Press).
2005 "I/O: A Comparative Literature for a Digital Age." Comparative Literature 57.3: 219-226.
2005 "The Strange Case of Araki Yasusada: Author, Object:" PMLA 120.1 (January 2005): 66-81.
2004 "Style: Strategy and Mimesis in Ergodic Literature." With Edward Wesp. Comparative Literature Studies 41.3: 404-423.
2004 "Reading Game/Text: EverQuest, Alienation, and Digital Communities." With Edward Wesp. Postmodern Culture, April 2004.
1999 "Critical Dreams: Orientalism, Modernism, and the Meaning of Pound's China." Twentieth Century Literature 45:4 (Winter 1999): 511-33.
1995 "Imagine That: Rodney King and the L.A. Riots." Mediations (May 1995): 5-17.

Short pieces, interviews, and reviews

2007 Review of Zhang Longxi, Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature Between East and West. Forthcoming in Comparative Literature Studies.
2007 Review of Douglas Mao and Rebecca Walkowitz, eds., Bad Modernisms. Modernism/Modernity 14.2 (April 2007).
2006 "Modernism's Chinas: Introduction." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 18.1 (Spring 2006): 1-7.
2005 "'The Slightness of My Endeavor': An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak" Comparative Literature 57.3: 256-72.
2005 "Responding to Death of a Discipline: An ACLA Forum." With Christopher Bush. Comparative Literature 57.3: 199-200.
2005 Review of Alex Woloch's The One vs. the Many. Modernism/Modernity 12.2 (April 2005): 349-51.
2004 Review essay on Yunte Huang's Transpacific Displacement and Steven G. Yao's Translation and the Languages of Modernism. Yearbook of General and Comparative Literature. 51 (2003-04): 185-92.
2004 Review of Rey Chow's The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism. CLEAR 26 (2004): 184-187.
2003 Review of Marie-Paule Ha's Figuring the East. Yearbook of General and Comparative Literature vol. 50 (2002-03): 198-201.
2001 "Imagism" and "Cathay". Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century. Ed. Eric Haralson. Chicago: Fiztroy Dearborn, 2001. 321-324; 573-574.
2001 "Response" (to Jane Gallop's "Resisting Reasonableness"). With Jeffrey King. Conflict of Interest and the Professions. Eds. Michael Davis and Andrew Stark. Oxford UP, 2001. 192-94.
1999 Review of Rey Chow's Ethics after Idealism. Modern Chinese Literature. Spring 1999: 219-25.
1997 Review of Robert Young's Colonial Desire. Discourse 19.2. February 1997: 194-97.

Work in progress

The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy, China, and the Fate of the Modern Human (book manuscript).

Invited talks

"To Heal a Chinese Mandarin: The Moral Implications of Distance." UC-Berkeley, April 2006.
"Ideologies of the Anesthetic." Arizona Quarterly Symposium, March 2006.
"The Compassion Trade." Transpacific Modernisms. Princeton University, November 2005. Also UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, February 2006.
"The Ideograph's Face: On the History of Western Reactions to Chinese Torture." Peter Straub Symposium. University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 2005.
"Bertrand Russell's Chinese Eyes." Comparative Modernisms. Tsinghua University, Beijing, June 2005.
"Photograface: The Image as Sign-Thing." UC-Irvine Graduate Colloquium in Comparative Literature. May 2005.
"The (Chinese) Body in Pain." Orientalism and Modernism. King's College, Cambridge, July 2004.
"Author, Object: The Strange Case of Araki Yasusada." Arizona Quarterly Symposium, March 2003.
"The Quality of Dreams: A Brief History of Western Representations of China, 1300-1937." Beijing Foreign Studies University, 1997.
"What to Say about China When You Get Home." Capital Normal University, Beijing, 1997.

Selected conferences

"The Hypothetical Mandarin." American Comparative Literature Association, 2007.
"What We Don't Know." Modern Language Association, 2006.
"Modernism: The Long View." Modernist Studies Association, 2006.
"The Human Difference." ACLA, 2006.
"What Video Games Can Teach Us About Literature." MLA, 2005.
"Thirty Years of Minor Literature." Seminar Leader. MSA, 2005.
"An Empire of Pain." ACLA, 2005.
"The Author as the Letter A." MLA, 2004.
"Ecstatic Transport and the Chinese Body in Pain." MSA, 2004.
"On Death of a Discipline." ACLA, 2004.
"More on Race and Style in Ergodic Literature," and "Re-presenting Simulation." With Edward Wesp. Form, Culture and Video Game Criticism, Princeton, 2004.
"Objects and Things: A Presuicidal Generosity." MLA, 2003
''Freud and the Scene of Writing,' and the Scene of Writing." MSA, 2003
"Teaching With and Against Translation." Roundtable Organizer. ACLA, 2003.
"Objects, and How to Develop a Relation to Them." ACLA, 2003.
"Toward a Theory of Computer Games." With Edward Wesp. ACLA, 2003.
"Modernist Objects." Panel Organizer. MSA, 2002.
"Translation With No Original: Yasusada's Doubled Flowering." ACLA, 2002.
"Intimations of War." ACLA, 2001.
"Beyond Orientalism: Strangeness and Estrangement in Bertolt Brecht." MSA, 2000.
"Traveling Without Moving, War Games Without Tears." Appropriations: Between Scholarship and Literature, Among Nations. Stanford University, 2000.
"Listening to Culture: An Experiment in Composition, Collaborative Teaching, and the World Wide Web." Auburn University, 2000.
'''An aukward figure in ridiculous habit': The European Abroad in Qing China." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2000.
"Is China Logocentric? And Other Comparative Questions." ACLA, 2000.
"In the Name of Rey Chow: Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature." MLA, 1999.
"Tales From the Scene of Interlocution." ACLA, 1999.
"Travails of the Mind's Eye: Pound, Brecht, Waley." ACLA, 1998.
"Ezra Pound and Chinese Writing." ACLA, 1997.
"Tales Twice Told: Apollo 13 and 'Prayer of Columbus." Institute on Culture and Society. George Mason, 1996.
"Translations of Pound: Poetic Text and Visual Culture." M/MLA, 1996.
"Family Matters: Katie Roiphe Repeats Herself." Feminist Generations. Bowling Green, 1996.
"Body Limits: Eating the Racial Other in Frantz Fanon." Questions of Space. SUNY-Buffalo, 1995.
"Inside/Outside: Tagore's The Home and the World." Colonial and Postcolonial Literature. Georgetown University, 1994.
'The Journalistic Hypertext: the L.A. Times and the Rodney King Riots." Institute on Culture and Society. Carnegie Mellon, 1994.

Courses planned and taught

Anglo-American modernism
Backgrounds to Modernism (graduate)
Modernism: Where to Begin (graduate)
Modernism and Translation
Virginia Woolf
Women Inside/Outside Modernism
critical theory and literary analysis
Legacies: Derrida and Foucault (graduate)
Prose, in Theory (graduate)
Literary Analysis
Introduction to Literary Theory
Narratives and Narratology
What's New in Theory
comparative literature
France/Germany, 1945-1975 (graduate, co-taught)
Asian Poetry in the World Picture
Modernism and Translation
visual culture
Theories of the Photographic

Grants, Honors and Awards

2005 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, The Huntington Library
2005, 2004 Foreign Travel Grant, U of Arizona
2004, 2003 Student-Faculty Interaction Grant, U of Arizona
2004 Summer Institute in Literary Studies, National Humanities Center
2004 Provost Author Support Fund Grant, U of Arizona
2004 Career Development Grant, U of Arizona
2003 College of Humanities, Dean's Distinguished Teaching Award, U of Arizona
2003 Faculty Small Grant, Office of the Vice President for Research, U of Arizona
1998-99 Dissertation Fellowship. U Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1997-98 Boren Fellowship. Peking University, Beijing, China
1996-97 Graduate School Fellowship. UWM.
1996 Frederick J. Hoffman Award (with Edward Wesp). UWM
1993-94 Writing Center Fellowship. Georgetown

Professional Service

Current Advisory board, Arizona Quarterly
2005 Site committee co-chair, 3rd Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association
2005, 2003 National review committee, Humanities/Education panel, Boren Fellowships of the Academy for Educational Development
2003, 2002 Co-organizer, Works in Progress. Graduate conference, U of Arizona.
2001 Organizer, International Film Festival. U. of Northern Iowa
2000 Conference co-organizer. Appropriations: Between Scholarship and Literature, Among Nations. Stanford University
1996 Conference co-organizer. Discerning the Right. U Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Contact

311 Burrowes Building University Park, PA 16802
Tel. 814-865-1188 Fax 814-863-8882 Email: ehayot@psu.edu