Joseph R Allen

Contact Me

jrallen@umn.edu

Affiliations

• Asian Languages and Literatures

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D.: Chinese Literature, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Curriculum Vitae

Specialties

• China
• Taiwan
• Taipei City
• Chinese poetry and poetics
• Colonialist Photography

Courses Taught

• ALL 3361W - Maps, Pictures and Writing in the Representation of Taiwan
• ALL 5261 - The Work of Translation: Theory, Function & Practice
• ALL 3334 - Voices from Ancient China: The Book of Songs and the Songs of the South
• ALL 3334 - Writing (in) East Asian Cutures

Research & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

• Chair, Asian Languages and Literatures: 2013
• Director of Chinese Flagship, University of Minnesota: 2014
• Director, Consortium for the Study of the Asias: Title VI, NRC , 2006
• Founding Chair, Asian Languages and Literatures: 2000 - 2008
• Chair of Executive Committee, East Asia Before 1900. Modern Language Association, : 2011
• National Editorial Board, Texts and Translations, Modern Language Association: 2006 - 2010
• Director, Chinese Language Flagship, University of Minnesota:

Research

• Colonial Photography: Examination of early Japanese colonial photography in Taiwan in terms of ideological and ethnic constructions
• Chinese Literature Textbooks in the Twentieth Century: The role of the high-school Chinese Literature textbook in the formation of a shared set of canonical texts in popular culture, in China, Taiwan, and abroad. Funded by Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Fellowship and the University Minnesota Imagine Fund.

Publications

• "Picturing Gentlemen: Japanese Portrait Photography in Colonial Taiwan." Journal of Asian Studies, November, 2014, 1009-1042.
• Taipei: City of Displacements. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012. Winner of the Joseph Levenson Prize in Chinese Studies, Post 1900, 2014. Image
• “From Literature to Lingerie: Classical Chinese Poetry in Taiwan Popular Culture.“Popular Culture in Taiwan: Charismatic Modernity. London and New York: Routledge, 2010, 65-85.
• "Why Learning to Write Chinese Characters is a Waste of Time: A Modest Proposal." Foreign Language Annals.. 41.2 (Summer, 2008), 237-51.
• Sea of Dreams: The Selected Writings of Gu Cheng. Translated and Edited. Allen, Joseph, New York: New Directions Publishers, Author, 2005.
• “Taipei Park: Signs of Occupation": Allen, Joseph, Journal of Asian Studies, 66.1 (2007) 159-99.
• “Mapping Taipei: Representation and Ideology“: Allen, Joseph, Studies on Asia, II, 2.2 (Fall 2005) 5-80, plus illustrations. Link
• The Book of Songs. Edited with Additional Translations and Postface. Translated by Arthur Waley. New York: Grove Press, 1996. Revised 2000.

Awards

• College of Liberal Arts Dean's Medal, University of Minnesota, 2016
• Center for Chinese Studies Fellowship, National Library, Minister of Foreign Affairs., 2012
• Faculty Research Grant, Ministry of Education, Taiwan., 2009
• Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, 1999