David Li
Professor, English; Collins Professor of the Humanities
Phone: (541) 346-3940
Email: davidlli@uoregon.edu
David Li’s research and teaching topics concentrate on American literature, ethnic literature, global fiction, Chinese film, theory of globalization, and literary and cultural history. Professor Li has authored two books, Imagining the Nation: Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent, (Stanford UP, 1998) which was nominated for the Asian American Studies Association Book Award in 2001, and Globalization and the Humanities (Hong Kong UP, 2003). In 2002, Professor Li received a Freeman Foundation Travel Grant from University of Oregon’s Center for Asian Pacific Studies. He received a Small Professional Grant from the Center for Asian Pacific Studies the previous summer and in the summer of 1998 the University of Southern California awarded him with the East Asian Research Grant. Professor Li has two projects in progress. The first one, under contract with Stanford UP, is entitled Globalization on Speed: Capital, Culture, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema, and the second, Major Works: Asian American Literature (a projected 4 volume 1,600pp collection of criticism), is under contract with Routledge (UK).
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