Timothy Pan Yu
Department of English
University of Toronto
Jackman Humanities Building 912
170 St. George St.
Toronto, ON M5R 2M8, Canada
(416) 946-0827
Education
Ph.D., English and American Literature, Stanford University, January 2005.
AB summa cum laude, Social Studies and English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University, June 1996.
Academic Positions
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Toronto, 2004-present.
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto, 2005-present.
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for the Study of the United States, University of Toronto, 2008-present.
Publications
Book
Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry Since 1965. Stanford University Press, 2009.
Journal Articles
“Oriental Cities, Postmodern Futures: Naked Lunch, Blade Runner, and Neuromancer.” MELUS 33.4 (Winter 2008): 45-73.
“Traveling Genres and the Failure of Asian American Short Fiction.” Genre 39.4: 23-41.
“‘The Hand of a Chinese Master’: José Garcia Villa and Modernist Orientalism.” MELUS 29.1 (Spring 2004): 41-59.
“Form and Identity in Language Poetry and Asian American Poetry.” Contemporary Literature 41.3 (Fall 2000): 422-61.
Book Articles
“Asian/American Modernisms: José Garcia Villa’s Transnational Poetics.” Pinoy Poetics. Ed. Nick Carbó. San Francisco: Meritage Press, 2004. 343-67.
Edited Books
Anthology of Asian American Literature. Co-edited with Dorothy Wang. In development with Longman.
Essays and Reviews
Review of Yunte Huang, Transpacific Imaginations: History, Literature, Counterpoetics. CLIO 38.2, forthcoming.
Review of Josephine Nock-Hee Park, Apparitions of Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics. MELUS 33.4 (Winter 2008): 219-23.
Review of Edward Marx, The Idea of a Colony: Cross-Culturalism in Modern Poetry. Modern Philology 105.4 (May 2008): 749-52.
Review of Reading Chinese Transnationalisms: Society, Literature, Film, ed. Maria N. Ng and Philip Holden. University of Toronto Quarterly 77.1 (Winter 2008): 430-1.
Review of Culture, Identity, Commodity: Disaporic Chinese Literatures in English, ed. Tseen Khoo and Kam Louie. University of Toronto Quarterly 76.1 (Winter 2007): 621-2.
Review of Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy, Writing in Our Time: Canada’s Radical Poetries in English (1957-2003). University of Toronto Quarterly 76.1 (Winter 2007): 605-7.
Review of Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, ed. Victoria Chang. Chicago Review 51.4-52.1 (Spring 2006): 222-230.
“How to Write a Chinese Poem.” Meanjin 63.2 (2004): 73-9.
“Poet in the House of Frankenstein.” Review of John Yau, Borrowed Love Poems. Free Verse 3 (Winter 2003).
“Inside Out.” Cordite 11 (September 2002). http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/14234/20021128/cordite.org.au/11/yu,review.html
Fellowships and Awards
Vincent Chin Memorial Chapbook Prize, 2006.
Connaught New Staff Matching Grant, University of Toronto, 2006.
Connaught Start-Up Grant, University of Toronto, 2005.
Tom Killefer Dissertation Fellowship, English Department, Stanford University, 2003-2004.
Geballe Dissertation Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center, 2002-2003.
Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association Graduate Scholarship, 2002.
Graduate Research Opportunity Grant, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University, Summer 2002.
Boothe Prize Writing Instructor, Writing and Critical Thinking Program, Stanford University, Spring 2000.
Thomas T. Hoopes Thesis Prize, Harvard University, June 1996.
Alexis de Tocqueville Thesis Prize, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University, June 1996.
Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard University, 1995.
Conference Presentations, Talks, and Interviews
“Marketing Asian American Literature” (roundtable participant). American Literature Association, May 22-25, San Francisco.
“Asian American Poetry in the Midwest: Past, Present, Future.” Association for Asian American Studies Conference, April 16-19, 2008, Chicago.
“Blogs, Boutiques, and the Public Square.” Markets: From the Bazaar to eBay, Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto, March 6-9, 2008.
“Who Killed Asian American Poetry?” Modern Language Association Convention, December 27-30, 2007, Chicago.
“The New Prairie School.” Modern Language Association Convention, December 27-30, 2007, Chicago.
“Portrait of Dr. Funkenstein: Building the Racial Monster in the Poetry of Thomas Sayers Ellis.” American Literature Association Conference, May 24-27, 2007, Boston.
“The Future of Asian American Poetry” (roundtable organizer and moderator). American Literature Association Conference, May 24-27, 2007, Boston.
Interview with Annette Mangaard. Heart of a Poet: Ray Hsu. BookTelevision (Canada).
14 February 2007.
14 February 2007.
“The Future of Asian American Poetry.” Invited talk, Asian American Studies Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, February 5, 2007.
“Asian American Poetry since 1970: A Brief History.” Invited lecture, Asian American Studies 286: Asian American Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, February 5, 2007.
“At Sixes and Sevens: Abstraction and Reference in Robert Creeley’s ‘Numbers.’” Modern Language Association Convention, December 27-30, 2006, Philadelphia.
“Reconsidering Robert Creeley (1926-2005)” (panel organizer and chair). Modern Language Association Convention, December 27-30, 2006, Philadelphia.
“A New Prairie School?” Midwest Modern Language Association, Nov. 9-12, 2006, Chicago.
“Urban Poetry” (invited panelist). Drawing the Lines: International Perspectives on Urban Renewal, November 2, 2006, Indiana University Northwest, Gary.
“Traveling Genres: Filipino Prose, American Poetry.” American Literature Association Conference, May 25-28, 2006, San Francisco.
“An Asian American Avant-Garde?” Modernist Studies Association, Nov. 3-6, 2005, Chicago.
“Asian American Poetry in the 1970s: The Politics of Form.” American Literature Association Symposium on Poetic Form, September 30-October 1, 2005, San Diego.
“Auto Poesy: Allen Ginsberg’s Poetics of Transcription.” Modern Language Association Convention, December 27-30, 2003, San Diego.
“Audience Distant Relative: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Experimental Asian American Poetry.” Modern Language Association Convention, December 27-30, 2002, New York.
“‘The Hand of a Chinese Master’: José Garcia Villa and Modernist Orientalism.” Modern Language Association Convention, December 27-30, 2001, New Orleans.
“If Feeling Is Thinking: Theorizing Emotion in the Postmodern Poem.” Literature at the Limits: Berkeley-Stanford Conference, Stanford University, April 21, 2001.
“‘Bogus Scholarship’: Text, Context, and the Notes to The Waste Land.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 22-24, 2001.
“Form and Identity in Language Poetry and Asian American Poetry.” Transgressing Boundaries and Strategies of Renewal in American Poetry, University of Salamanca, May 18-20, 2000.
“Gertrude Stein and the Grammar of the Avant-Garde.” Rethinking the Avant-Garde, University of Notre Dame, April 14-15, 2000.
“Oriental Cities, Postmodern Futures.” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Buffalo, NY, April 7-8, 2000.
“Beyond Theory: Politics, History, Monstrosity.” Structuralist Iterations: Late 1999, Stanford University, December 1999.
Teaching
University of Toronto—Graduate
ENG5996HF: Race in Contemporary American Literature. Fall 2008.
ENG5523HS: The Avant-Garde: Theory and Practice. Spring 2008.
ENG5998HF: Theorizing Asian North American Studies: Globalization and Nation. Fall 2005.
Ph.D. supervisory committee member, Andrew Yang, Department of English; Katherine McLeod, Department of English; Paul Meyer, Department of English.
University of Toronto—Undergraduate
ENG368H: Asian North American Poetry and Prose. Spring 2008, Spring 2009.
ENG349H: Contemporary Poetry. Spring 2009.
ENG268H: Asian North American Literature. Fall 2007, Fall 2008.
ENG213H: The Short Story. Fall 2007.
ENG279Y: Asian North American Literature in English. Spring 2005, 2005-2006.
ENG359Y: American Literature 1880-1960. Spring 2006.
ENG201Y: Reading Poetry. Spring 2005.
ENG490Y: Senior Essay (individual supervision). 2006-2007.
Stanford University
TA Mentor, English Department, Spring 2001.
Teaching Assistant, English 150: Poetry and Poetics. Fall 2000.
Instructor, Writing and Critical Thinking 2B: Popular Culture: Writing and Research. Spring 2000.
Instructor, Writing and Critical Thinking 1B: Writing about Popular Culture and Media. Winter 2000.
Teaching Assistant, English 179D: Joyce. Spring 1999.