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This is not a CV. For a detailed academic resumé of Victor Fan, please contact him for further details.

Areas of Specialisation

1. Film and media theory and philosophy;

2. classical Chinese philosophy, literature, and vernacular discourses;

3. modern Chinese literature;

4. Chinese cinema and media (the 1930s; the martial arts film);

5. classical and modern European literature and philosophy (esp. Victorian literature, American literature, contemporary British literature)

6. postcolonial theory;

7. queer theory

Languages Other Than English

Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese): Native

French

Degrees and Certificates

In progress: PhD Candidate, Yale University, Comparative Literature and Film Studies

MFA, USC, School of Cinematic Arts, Film and Television Production

BM, University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music, Composition

A-Levels, Oxford and Cambridge Examination Board, History, Music, Religious Studies (Theology and Philosophy)

Fellowships and Scholarships

Samuel K. Bushnell Fellowship 9/2008-8/2009

Eastman School of Music Scholarship 9/1992-6/1996

Academic Publications

“New York Chinatown Theatres under the Hongkong Circuit System,” in Film History (pending: 2010).

“ (In)Authenticating the Queer Body and the Authorial Gesture,'” in A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder, ed. Briggitte Peucker (pending: Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).

“The Unanswered Question of Forrest Gump ,” in Screen 49.4 (Winter 2008), 450-61.

“English Football and Its Hong Kong Television Audience,” in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal 8.1 (2006), http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol8/iss1/3/ .

Book Review

Pak Tong Cheuck, Hong Kong New Wave Cinema (1978-2000). Bristol: Intellectual Books, 2008. In Screening the Past, 26 (2010), http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/26/hong-kong-new-wave-cinema.html.

Articles in Progress

Chinese Film Theory Translation Project

"The Cinema of Sun Yu and the Curse on the Female Body."

“What Does Hero Tell Us about Political Violence and Media Archaeology?”

“To What the Law Turns Blind?: Homosexuality and Hitchcock's Cinema as a Collective Symptom.”

“The Re-Emergence of Football Hooliganism as Cinema.”

Articles in Printculture ( http://www.printculuture.com )

Printculture is a communal blog (fellow contributors including Haun Saussy and Eric Hayot). These articles were written in both journalistic and academic formats, depending on the subject matters and research backgrounds. Some of these articles are under revisions for the purpose of being published in academic journals. I hereby provide a list of their titles, for some of them may give you an idea on the areas of research that I am undertaking.

“The Genius and the Aura” [On Gustavo Dudamel] (15 October 2009); "Whose Trauma is It?: Reading Inglourious Basterds " (28 September 2009); “From The Paradine Case to Prop 8” (19 August 2009); “Cat and Mouse” [On Animal Consciousness] (17 July 2009); “The Grand Finale” [On Mahler's Symphony No. 8 ] (27 June 2009); “Re-Reading This Sporting Life ” (23 June 2009); “Is Hero a Sellout?” (13 June 2009); “On ‘Lust, Caution' (The Novella)” (18 May 2009); “The Nocturne” [On Chopin] (1 May 2009); “The Christ that Remains” [On Nicholas Ray's King of Kings ] (26 April 2009); “Rethinking Broken Blossoms through Canhua lei ” (12 April 2009); “The Cinema of Sun Yu” (6 April 2009); “Logan's Doubt (In Kang Youwei's Parallel Universe)” [On Logan's Run and Kang Yougwei] (30 March 2009); “On Tom Brown's School-Days ” (23 March 2009); “Hawks and Sparrows” [On the Cinema of Pasolini] (16 March 2009); “Whose Funny Valentine? Part 2” (On Slumdog Millionaire ) (24 February 2009); “The Post-Mortem Life of Music” (14 December 2008); “What is Truly Absent from the Beijing Olympics?” (12 August 2008); “Football and ‘Modern Slavery'” (18 July 2008); “Euro 2008” (5 July 2008).

Journalistic Publications

In Film Festival Reporter (later known as Film Festival Today): 2000-2004

Specialist coverages of:
African-Diaspora Film Festival
New York Underground Film Festival
MIX New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival
Gen Art
MOXIE Film

“Wu fei lin dianyin” (Cinema without Film), in Tupo shaonian (Hong Kong, 1995).

Campus Visits (2009)
University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies and East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Chinese Cinema)
University of Rochester, Modern Languages and Cultures (Modern Chinese Literature and Cinema)

Previous Negotiations

New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Productions Division, History and Analysis: “History of Narrative Styles” (offer made in August 2008)
Sarah Lawrence College, Film Studies: “Action Cinema: From Hollywood to East Asia and Back Again” (offer made in October 2008)

Teaching Experiences

Full Instructor
Yale University, Summer Film Institute (2007): “Action Cinema: From Hollywood to East Asia and Back Again” (2007)

Guest Lecturer
Georgia Institute of Technology, Humanities: “Japanese Bunraku and the Japanese New Wave” (2008)
Smith College, Film Studies: “Women in Japanese Horror Films” (2007)
Yale University, Summer Film Institute: “History of Hong Kong Cinema and Negotiations of Modernity” (2005 and 2006)

Teaching Fellow

Yale University, Film Studies
Modes of Filmmaking (Ron Gregg, Lisa Molomot), History and Productions (2008)
Introduction to Film Studies (Aaron Gerow, 2008)
Contemporary Film Theory (Thomas Elsaesser, 2007)

Yale University, Theatre Studies
Survey of Theater and Drama (Specialist in the bunraku, history and co-ordinator of performance; Joseph Roach, 2006)
(Also Recommended for the World Theater Project as Teaching Fellow and Guest Performer under Joseph Roach, 2007)

Experienced Teaching in High School and Junior High School Classes

Events & Administrative Works at Yale
Funding and Acquisition for the ACT-UP Oral Project (2006).
Films of Fury (Festivals of Hong Kong & Chinese Martial Arts Films, 2007-09; invitation for David Desser).
First Annual Graduate Conference on Super-Heroes in Action Cinema (2009; invitation for David Bordwell).
Invitation for Jim Hubbard for Ron Gregg’s Queer Cinema

Conferences

Asia in Motion (Yale University, 2009)
“Sports, ‘Cinema,’ and the Myth of a Haunting Dream”

American Comparative Literature Association
“Too Close to Touch, Too Painful to Remember: Donnie Darko” (2008)
“Agamben and Photogénie” (2006)
“Football and Hong Kong Television Audience” (2005)

North American Society of Sociology of Sports
“Opium and Football” (2005)

Princeton University, Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference
“Homosexuality and Early Hitchcock Cinema” (2007)

Chicago University, Sociology Student Conference
“Racism in English Football” (2005)

Indiana, Bloomington, French and Italian Literature
“English Hooliganism and Italian Ultra” (2005)

CUNY, Graduate Center, Comparative Literature
“Kenneth Anger and Ambiguity” (2005)