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Christopher Fan

cfan@berkeley.edu


Specialties

Selected Publications and Papers Delivered

Publications:
  • “Naturalism with Chinese Characteristics,” in Techno-Orientalism: Science Fiction History, Literature and Media, eds. Betsy Huang, Greta Niu and David Roh. Forthcoming, 2013.
Conference Presentations:
  • Nov., 2013 
    • “Techno-Orientalism as Critical Realism: China Mountain Zhang, Science Fiction and the Naturalistic Turn in American Realism”
      • “Techno-Orientalism and Digital Diasporas: Neoliberal Vulnerability and Viral Legacies of Imperial Debt.” Panel organized by Profs. Mariam Lam and Konrad Ng. American Studies Association. Washington, D.C.
  • June, 2013
    • “The Immaterial Labor of Sinological Realism: Mike Daisey's The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs"
      • Dartmouth Future of American Studies Institute, Hanover, NH.
  • March, 2013
    • “Post-1965 Asian American Science Fiction as Critical Realism”
      • “Speculative Visions” Conference, Center for Race and Gender, U.C. Berkeley. Berkeley, CA.
  • Nov., 2011    
    • “Avatar Beta: Lord Jim as Critical Immersion”
      • Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Claremont, CA.
  • May, 2008  
    • “Sarajevo, New Orleans: Waiting for Godot and the Uncanny” (invited)
      • “Inaction.” Panel organized by Prof. Rebecca Rainof. International Conference on Narrative. Austin, TX.
  • April, 2008
    • Absalom, Absalom! and the Indeterminacy of History”
      • Guest lecture for English 45C, Prof. Colleen Lye, U.C. Berkeley. Berkeley, CA.
  • May, 2007
    • “Disruptions: Race, Gender and Human Being in Battlestar Galactica” (invited)
      • “Alien/Asian: Enfiguring a Racialized Future.” Panel organized by erin Khuê Ninh and the Circle of Asian American Literary Studies, chaired by Prof. Betsy Huang. American Literature Association. Boston, MA.
  • April, 2006
    • “Traumatic Form in Heart of Darkness
      • Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Conference. Berkeley, CA.
  • June, 2004
    • “Teach the Conflicts: Heart of Darkness after Achebe”
      • Joseph Conrad Society (UK) Annual Conference. London, UK.


Current Research

  • Post-'45 American literature, performance and film
  • Science fiction
  • US-China neoliberalism
  • Racial form and formation
  • Digital humanities


Recent English Courses Taught