Department of English

• Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Fisher-Bennett Hall 401

Departmental Lecture
Unmarked Characters and the "Rise of Asia”
Tuesday, March 25
4.30 pm
Fisher-Bennett Hall 401
The lecture will be followed by a reception in the faculty lounge. 

Colloquium
“Financialization and the Culture Industry”
Wednesday, March 26
12-1:30 pm
Fisher-Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge

Forthcoming issue of Representations
co-edited with C.D. Blanton and Kent Puckett
Readings for the seminar (please write to loveh@english.upenn.edu for the PDFs):

“Introduction" (Blanton, Lye, and Puckett)
“Bad Credit: The Character of Credit Scoring” (Annie McClanahan) 
“HBO’s Flexible Gold” (Michael Szalay) 

Colleen Lye is Associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley. She received her B.A. from UC Berkeley in 1988, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1990 and 1999. She is the author of America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945 (Princeton University Press, 2005), a study of the making of "Asiatic racial form" through the interactions of naturalist literature and U.S. policy in an era of U.S. expansion across the Pacific. Currently she is working on a new project on Asian American literary formation after the 1960s and its relationship to the globalization of knowledge economies.

Professor Lye is a member of the editorial boards of Representations, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies and Verge. Her book America's Asia was the recipient of the Cultural Studies Book Award (first prize) by the Association of Asian American Studies, a finalist for the John Hope Franklin Prize by the American Studies Association, and selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic title.