Daphne Pi-Wei LeiAssistant Professor, Drama |
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Research Interests |
Asian, Asian American, Intercultural and Postcolonial Theatre, Ethnic, Gender and Diasporic Studies. Ethnic, Gender and Diasporic Studies. | |
| Appointments | Mellow Postdoctoral Fellow in Humanities, Drama Department, Stanford University (2000-2001) | |
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Research Abstract |
B.A. Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan (English); M.A. California State University, Los Angeles (Theatre Arts); Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Humanities, Stanford University (Drama). Interests and expertise include Asian, Asian American and Intercultural Theatre, Chinese Theatre and Film, Postcolonial and Diasporic Theatre, Gender, Race and Ethnicity. Published articles on the subjects of premodern Chinese theatre, gender and ethnicity, Chinese immigrant theatre, and Asian American theatre; taught at the Chinese Culture University (Taiwan), Tufts, and Stanford University; directed plays with Asian American casts at Harvard and Stanford; conducted playwriting workshop and mentored dance and theatre projects for Asian American students at Stanford and UCI. Currently on the advisory board of AATC (Asian American Theatre Company, San Francisco).? | |
| Publications |
I. Journal Articles and Book Chapters: The Virtual Chinatown and New Racial Formation: Cantonese Opera Performance in the Bay Area." Critical Theory and Performance II, eds. Joseph Roach and Janelle Reinelt (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005). "Staging the Asian American Binary." Blackwell Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama, ed. David Krasner (Oxford, UK; Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2004), 301-17 . "The Production and Consumption of Chinese Theatre in Nineteenth-Century California." Theatre Research International (Vol 28, No 3, October 2003), 289-302. "Can You Hear Me? Female Voice and Cantonese Opera in the San Francisco Bay Area," The Scholar & Feminist Online (Barnard Center for Research on Women, http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/ps/lei.htm) "Envisioning New Borders for the Old China in Late Qing Fiction and Local Drama." Political Frontiers, Ethnic Boundaries, and Human Geographies in Chinese History, ed. Nicola Di Cosmo and Don Wyatt (RoutledgeCurzon, an imprint of the Taylor and Francis Group, 2003), 373-97. "Biography of Sung J. Rno." Asian American Playwrights: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, ed. Miles X. Liu (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press), 292-7. "Wang Zhaojun on the Border: Gender and Intercultural Conflict in Premodern Chinese Drama." Asian Theatre Journal 13, no. 2 (Fall 1996), 229-37. II. Dissertation "Performing the Borders: Gender and Intercultural Conflicts in Premodern Chinese Drama (Ph.D Dissertation. Tufts University, 1999). |
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| Last updated | 10/14/2004 | |