Selected Talks


“Conversation on a Willow Pattern Plate: Virginia Woolf and Ling Shuhua”

University College Cork, School of Asian Studies, Cork, Ireland. May 2011.


“China’s ‘Yes’ to Molly Bloom: Translations of James Joyce’s Ulysses”

University College Cork, School of English, Cork, Ireland. May 2011.


The Death of the Heart: Wartime Emptiness

in Elizabeth Bowen and Virginia Woolf,
Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, Pa., December 2009.

The City of the Mind in a Time of War: Virginia Woolf & Elizabeth Bowen

Virginia Woolf Annual Conference,
Fordham University,
New York, June 2009.

Place as Palimpsest: Eudora Welty and Elizabeth Bowen in Conversation

American Literature Association Conference,
Welty at 100,
Boston, May 2009

Modernism’s Quarrel with the Lyric Voice: East-West Views

Modern Language Association
Chicago, December 2008

Is Biography Modernist?

Organizer, Moderator,
Modern Language Association,
San Francisco, December 2008.

The Narrow Bridge of Art: Bloomsbury, Modernism and China

China Book Tour
Fudan University, Shanghai
East China Normal University, Shanghai
Beijing Bookworm, Beijing.

Waking the Sleeping Books of the Republican Era: Virginia Woolf and Ling Shuhua, Julian Bell and Ye Junjian

Modernist Studies Associatiion Conference
Long Beach, Ca.,Nov.2, 2007

Hours in a Chinese Library: Re-Reading Virginia Woolf, Bloomsbury and Modernism

Invited Plenary Speaker
Annual Virginia Woolf Conference
Miami University, Ohio, June 8, 2007

Virginia Woolf and International Women Writers

Moderator
MLA, Washington, D.C., December, 2005

Recording Family History: An Oral History Workshop

Family History Fair
Graduate Center, CUNY, October 24, 2004.

Julian Bell’s China Album

Annual Virginia Woolf Conference Institute of English Studies
London, June 27, 2004

A King’s Quartet: G.L. Dickinson, Xu Zhimo, Julian Bell, Xiao Qian

Modernism and Orientalism Conference
King’s College, Cambridge University
Cambridge, England, June 14, 2004

Literature, History and Social Responsibility

CUNY-Taiyuan Educational Exchange Conference
Brooklyn College, CUNY, June 6, 2004.