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Shirley Geok-Lin Lim |
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Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
Professor
English Department
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
Tel: Please E-mail
Fax: (805) 893-4622
Email: slim@english.ucsb.edu
Curriculum Vitae: [pdf]
Office: SH 2719
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| Shirley Geok-Lin Lim is a Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1973, and has also taught at internationally, at the National University of Singapore, NIE of Nanyang Technological University, and most recently as Chair Professor at the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include Asian-American and post-colonial cultural productions and ethnic and feminist writing. She is the author of five books of poems; three books of short stories; two books of criticism: Nationalism and Literature (1993) and Writing South/East Asia in English: Against the Grain (1994); a book of memoirs, Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands (1996), and a novel, Joss and Gold (2001). She has served as editor/co-editor of numerous scholarly works, including The Forbidden Stich (1989), Approaches to Teaching Kingston’s The Woman Warror (1991), and Transnational Asia Pacific (1999). Professor Lim is currently at work on a study of gender and nation in Asian American representations. |
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Areas of Interest |
- Asian American cultural productions
- Post-colonial literature
- Ethnic and feminist writing
- Creative writing
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Books and Recent Articles |
- Memoir: Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian American Memoir of Homelands (1996) (Chinese translation, 2001)
- Fiction: Joss and Gold (Feminist Press and Times Books International, 2001)
- Critical Books: Writing South/East Asia in English (1994); Nationalism and Literature: English-language Writing from the Philippines and Singapore (1993)
- Books of Poetry and Short Stories: What the Fortune Teller Didn't Say (1998), Two Dreams: New and Selected Stories (1997), Monsoon History (1994), Modern Secrets: New and Selected Poems (1989), Life's Mysteries (1985), No Man's Grove and Other Poems (1985), Another Country (1982), Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems (1980)
- Editor or Co-editor of the following: Power, Race, and Gender in Academe: Strangers in the Tower? (MLA Press, 2000), Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing (2000), Transnational Asia Pacific: Gender, Culture, and the Public Sphere (1999), Reading the Literatures of Asian America (1992), One World of Literature (1992), Approaches to Teaching Kingston's The Woman Warrior (1991), The Forbidden Stitch (1989)
- “Foreword,’ Asian American Autobiographers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook (Greenwood Press, 2001)
- "English-Language Creative Writing in Hong Kong: Colonial Stereotype and Process," in Pedagogy 1(1) (Duke U P, Winter 2000)
- "The Center Can(not) Hold: U.S. Women's Studies and Global Feminism," American Studies International 38(3) (October, 2000)
- "The Futures for Hong Kong English," co-authored with Kingsley Bolton, World Englishes 19(3) Special Issue, Hong Kong English: Autonomy and Creativity (November, 2000)
- “Transnational Americans: Asian Pacific American Literature of Anamnesia.” Journal of American Studies 32(2) (Winter, 2000)
- "'Global Asia' as Post-Legitimation: A Response to Ambroise Kom's 'Knowledge and Legitimation'." Mots Pluriels, (June, 2000)
- “Old Paradigms, New Differences: Comparative American Studies,” in Cultural Encounters (Stauffenburg Verlag, Spring 2000)
- "David Wong Louie," The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story (Columbia U P, 2001)
- "Complications of Feminist and Ethnic Literary Theories in Asian American Literature," in Challenging Boundaries: Gender and Periodization (U of Georgia P, 2000)
- "Asian American Literature: Leavening the Mosaic," in Contemporary U. S. Literature: Multicultural Perspectives (U.S. Society & Values, Electronic Journals of the U.S. Department of State (5)1, 2000)
- "Writing Out of Turn," Profession 1999
- “Before Its Time, Of Its Time: The Transnational Female Bildungsroman and Kartini’s Letters of A Javanese Princess,” Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 9(1&2), 1999
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Current Projects |
- A study of gender and nation in Asian American representations
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Recent Course Offerings |
- Native American and Asian American Women Writers
- Writing Globalized Cultures: Transnational Asia Pacific
- Re-Theorizing Asian American Literature
- Asian American Literature
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Courses
| Quarter |
Course |
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| Spring 2010 |
ENGL 187AA |
Studies in Modern Literature |
| Winter 2010 |
ENGL 50 |
Introduction to U.S. Minority Literature
: Asian-American Literature |
| Winter 2010 |
ENGL 50S |
Seminar for U.S. Minority Literature |
| Fall 2009 |
ENGL 109 |
Writing of Verse |
| Winter 2009 |
ENGL 50 |
Introduction to U.S. Minority Literature
: Asian American |
| Winter 2009 |
ENGL 50S |
Seminar for U.S. Minority Literature
: Asian American - Honors Seminar |
| Winter 2008 |
ENGL 235 |
Studies in American Literature
: Comparative Race Readings US Indigenous and Asian Pacific Islander Literatures: Space, Memory |
| Fall 2007 |
ENGL 50 |
Introduction to U.S. Minority Literature
: Asian American |
| Fall 2007 |
ENGL 50S |
Seminar for U.S. Minority Literature |
| Fall 2007 |
ENGL 109 |
Writing of Verse |
| Summer (A) 2007 |
ENGL 50 |
Introduction to U.S. Minority Literature |
| Spring 2007 |
ENGL 50 |
Introduction to U.S. Minority Literature |
| Spring 2007 |
ENGL 50S |
Seminar for U.S. Minority Literature |
| Spring 2007 |
ENGL 235 |
Studies in American Literature
: Transnational Identities and Asia Pacific |
| Spring 2006 |
ENGL 50 |
Introduction to U.S. Minority Literature |
| Spring 2006 |
ENGL 50S |
Seminar for U.S. Minority Literature |
| Summer (A) 2005 |
ENGL 50 |
Introduction to U.S. Minority Literature |
| Spring 2005 |
ENGL 109 |
Writing of Verse |
| Spring 2005 |
ENGL 235 |
Studies in American Literature
: Comparative Race Readings in American Indian and Asian Pacific Islander Literatures: Subject, Territory, Memory |
| Winter 2005 |
ENGL 50 |
Introduction to U.S. Minority Literature |
| Winter 2005 |
ENGL 50S |
Seminar for U.S. Minority Literature |
| Winter 2005 |
CCS 102Section 3 |
Writing: Narrative Prose
: Writing the Very Short Story: From Poetry to Fiction |
| Spring 2004 |
ENGL 109 |
Writing of Verse |
| Spring 2004 |
ENGL 225 |
Arts of Writing: Theory, Pedagogy and Practice of Creative Writing |
| Winter 2004 |
ENGL 50 |
Introduction to U.S. Minority Literature |
| Winter 2004 |
ENGL 50S |
Seminar for U.S. Minority Literature |
| Summer (A) 2003 |
ENGL 106 |
Creative Writing |
| Winter 2003 |
ENGL 50 |
Introduction to U.S. Minority Literature
: Asian-American Literature |
| Winter 2003 |
ENGL 50S |
Seminar for U.S. Minority Literature |
| Fall 2002 |
ENGL 234 |
Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
: Writing Globalized Cultures: Transnational Asia Pacific |
| Summer (A) 2002 |
ENGL 50 |
Introduction to U.S. Minority Literature |
| Spring 2002 |
ENGL 106 |
Creative Writing |
| Winter 2002 |
ENGL 234 |
Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
: Telling the Nation: Comparative Asian Pacific American Autobiographies and Memoirs |
| Fall 2001 |
ENGL 50 |
Introduction to U.S. Minority Literature
: Asian-American Literature |
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