Department of East Asian Studies -- New York University

REBECCA KARL

Associate Professor of East Asian Studies and History

Ph.D. 1995 (History), Duke.
M.A. 1989 (International Relations), NYU.
B.A. 1982 (Russian Language & Literature), Barnard.
Office: 715 Broadway, Room 303
Telephone: 212-998-7623
Email: rebecca.karl@nyu.edu

Research Interests

Research includes a completed book project on modern Chinese intellectual history, with a focus on nationalism at the turn of the twentieth century; and ongoing projects on gender and citizenship at the turn of the twentieth century; contemporary Chinese film, historical consciousness, and historiographical debates; issues in contemporary Chinese intellectual and social life; 1920s and 1930s Chinese economic thought and the problem of "semi-colonialism"; contemporary critical theory; comparative history. All of the work highlights the various global contexts--economic, intellectual, cultural--of modern and contemporary China and is intended as an extended working out of the relationship between critical theories of modernity and modern Chinese history.

Selected Publications

Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Durham, NC: Duke University Press 2002.

Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period: Political and Cultural Change in Modern China, co-editor (with Peter Zarrow); Harvard University, Council on East Asian Publications 2002.

Marxism beyond Marxism, co-editor (with Saree Makdisi and Cesare Casarino), Routledge 1996.

Teaching Interests

At the undergraduate level, teaching includes core lecture courses on modern Chinese history that focus on the dialectic between revolution and modernity in China's modern history and on the relationship between modern China and the modern world; upper-level seminars include classes on gender and radicalism, Chinese nationalism in Asian perspective; theories of imperialism and colonialism and practices/histories of such in modern Asia. Graduate colloquia/ seminars include readings courses on Chinese intellectual history; considerations of nationalism as theory, critique, and history; critical theories of modernity.

Address: 715 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10003 | Tel. 212-998-7620 | Fax. 212-995-4682
2003 NYU Department of East Asian Studies


		REBECCA KARL
		Associate Professor of East Asian Studies and History Ph.D. 1995 (History), Duke. M.A. 1989 (International Relations), NYU. B.A. 1982 (Russian Language & Literature), Barnard. Office: 715 Broadway, Room 303 Telephone: 212-998-7623 Email: rebecca.karl@nyu.edu

		Research Interests
		Research includes a completed book project on modern Chinese intellectual history, with a focus on nationalism at the turn of the twentieth century; and ongoing projects on gender and citizenship at the turn of the twentieth century; contemporary Chinese film, historical consciousness, and historiographical debates; issues in contemporary Chinese intellectual and social life; 1920s and 1930s Chinese economic thought and the problem of "semi-colonialism"; contemporary critical theory; comparative history. All of the work highlights the various global contexts--economic, intellectual, cultural--of modern and contemporary China and is intended as an extended working out of the relationship between critical theories of modernity and modern Chinese history.

		Selected Publications
			Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Durham, NC: Duke University Press 2002.
			Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period: Political and Cultural Change in Modern China, co-editor (with Peter Zarrow); Harvard University, Council on East Asian Publications 2002.
			Marxism beyond Marxism, co-editor (with Saree Makdisi and Cesare Casarino), Routledge 1996.

		Teaching Interests
		At the undergraduate level, teaching includes core lecture courses on modern Chinese history that focus on the dialectic between revolution and modernity in China's modern history and on the relationship between modern China and the modern world; upper-level seminars include classes on gender and radicalism, Chinese nationalism in Asian perspective; theories of imperialism and colonialism and practices/histories of such in modern Asia. Graduate colloquia/ seminars include readings courses on Chinese intellectual history; considerations of nationalism as theory, critique, and history; critical theories of modernity.


	Address: 715 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10003 \| Tel. 212-998-7620 \| Fax. 212-995-4682	2003 NYU Department of East Asian Studies