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Sheldon Lu
Professor of Comparative Literature
Affiliated Faculty of Film Studies
Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington
Email: shlu@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 530.754.8324
Office: 805 Sproul Hall
Office Hours
Introduction
Sheldon Lu taught at the University of Pittsburgh for ten years before joining the University of California at Davis in 2002 as Professor of Comparative Literature. He was founding co-director of the Film
Studies Program at UC Davis (2002-2004), and a Fulbright scholar in Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine (2004-2005). He is the author and editor of many books. See the publication list below.
Research and Teaching Interests
- World cinema
- Postsocialist cinema
- Transnational Chinese cinemas
- Modern Chinese literature and visual culture
- Traditional Chinese narrative
- Cultural theory
- Globalization studies
- East-West comparative poetics
Education:
- Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington (1990)
- B.A., University of Wisconsin at Madison (1984)
Courses Taught at UCD
- Forms of Asian Literature
- Chinese Cinema
- Hong Kong Cinema
- Introduction to Film
- World Cinema
- Globalization and National Culture
- Transnationalism
- Introduction to Critical Theory
Selected Publications
- From Historicity to Fictionality: The Chinese Poetics of Narrative (Stanford, 1994; Korean edition 2001)
- China, Transnational Visuality, Global Postmodernity (Stanford, 2001)
- Culture, Mirror-Image, Poetics (Wenhua, jingxiang, shixue, in Chinese, 2002)
- Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics: Studies in Literature and Visual Culture (University of Hawaii Press, 2007)
- Editor of Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender (Hawaii, 1997). A University of Hawaii Press bestselling text.
- Co-editor of Chinese-Language Film: Historiography, Poetics, Politics (Hawaii, 2005). Choice's award of "Outstanding Academic Title of 2005."
- Co-editor of Chinese Ecocinema in the Age of Environmental Challenge (University of Hong Kong Press, 2009)
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Sheldon LuProfessor of Comparative Literature Email: shlu@ucdavis.edu |
Introduction
Sheldon Lu taught at the University of Pittsburgh for ten years before joining the University of California at Davis in 2002 as Professor of Comparative Literature. He was founding co-director of the Film
Studies Program at UC Davis (2002-2004), and a Fulbright scholar in Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine (2004-2005). He is the author and editor of many books. See the publication list below.
Research and Teaching Interests
- World cinema
- Postsocialist cinema
- Transnational Chinese cinemas
- Modern Chinese literature and visual culture
- Traditional Chinese narrative
- Cultural theory
- Globalization studies
- East-West comparative poetics
Education:
- Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington (1990)
- B.A., University of Wisconsin at Madison (1984)
Courses Taught at UCD
- Forms of Asian Literature
- Chinese Cinema
- Hong Kong Cinema
- Introduction to Film
- World Cinema
- Globalization and National Culture
- Transnationalism
- Introduction to Critical Theory
Selected Publications
- From Historicity to Fictionality: The Chinese Poetics of Narrative (Stanford, 1994; Korean edition 2001)
- China, Transnational Visuality, Global Postmodernity (Stanford, 2001)
- Culture, Mirror-Image, Poetics (Wenhua, jingxiang, shixue, in Chinese, 2002)
- Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics: Studies in Literature and Visual Culture (University of Hawaii Press, 2007)
- Editor of Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender (Hawaii, 1997). A University of Hawaii Press bestselling text.
- Co-editor of Chinese-Language Film: Historiography, Poetics, Politics (Hawaii, 2005). Choice's award of "Outstanding Academic Title of 2005."
- Co-editor of Chinese Ecocinema in the Age of Environmental Challenge (University of Hong Kong Press, 2009)