A comparative introduction to the nature and history of video games as cultural artifacts, from Pong to online role-playing. Continue reading
I gave two talks this summer at Nanjing University, both on chapters of On Literary Worlds (the first and the third chapters, respectively). First time giving talks in Chinese, which worked so-so for the first talk (about 90 percent Chinese, the rest English) … Continue reading
A graduate short course on Marx’s Capital vol. 1. Continue reading
What could or would it mean to think science fiction globally? Continue reading
Part of another great conference organized by David Wang.
I spoke in the universe’s longest-running comparative literature talk series here at Penn State to present part of what became “Against Periodization” (and of course the third part of On Literary Worlds). I start out nervous, but at some point things … Continue reading
On the history of prose fiction from the eleventh century to 1880; aimed at destabilizing the category of “the novel.” Continue reading
A short course for graduate students on the method and its history. Continue reading
A graduate short course on the history and concept of modernity from Kant to Dussel, Wallerstein, and beyond.
A basic introduction to the history and culture of Asian Americans, and to the field of Asian American Studies.
I did an interview with Penn State’s Jamie Oberdick on the state of video game teaching in the university and on the sociocultural approach to video games more generally.
On the history of sympathy. Winner of the 20120 Modernist Studies Association Book Price. Continue reading
So a few years ago my friend Sarah Koenig did a piece on how I met Yuanyuan for This American Life. You can listen to the show.
A course on the history and concept of worldedness from medieval cosmology to World of Warcraft. Continue reading
The Penn State version of the literary analysis course I taught at Arizona. Continue reading
