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Selina Lai-Henderson

Selina Lai-Henderson

Associate Professor of American Literature and History at Duke Kunshan University
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Selected Presentations & Appearances

The Sounds of Shanghai: Langston Hughes and Jazz in Interwar China - Panel: "Langston Hughes, Black Internationalist" · April 2023 International Meeting or Conference MELUS 37th Annual Conference, Indianapolis
Chair and Organizer, with Michio Arimitsu. “International Committee Talkshop. Worlding of Blackness: A Global Dialogue” · November 2022 International Meeting or Conference International Committee, American Studies Association, New Orleans, USA
Recovering the Lost Art of Thinking in Education – How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education · April 2022 Invited Talk Princeton University Press,
Young Researchers in Transnational American Studies · December 2021 Invited Talk Obama Institute, University of Mainz, Germany,
The Linghun of Black Folks: W.E.B. Du Bois, China, and Translation · April 2021 International Meeting or Conference American Comparative Literature Association, Chicago, USA
The Sounds of Shanghai: Langston Hughes and Jazz in Interwar China - Panel: "Langston Hughes, Black Internationalist" · April 2023 International Meeting or Conference MELUS 37th Annual Conference, Indianapolis
Chair and Organizer, with Michio Arimitsu. “International Committee Talkshop. Worlding of Blackness: A Global Dialogue” · November 2022 International Meeting or Conference International Committee, American Studies Association, New Orleans, USA
Recovering the Lost Art of Thinking in Education – How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education · April 2022 Invited Talk Princeton University Press,
Young Researchers in Transnational American Studies · December 2021 Invited Talk Obama Institute, University of Mainz, Germany,
The Linghun of Black Folks: W.E.B. Du Bois, China, and Translation · April 2021 International Meeting or Conference American Comparative Literature Association, Chicago, USA
Panel Organizer, with Yitzhak Lewis. “World Literature in China and China in World Literature” · April 2021 International Meeting or Conference American Comparative Literature Association, Chicago, USA
‘You Are No Darker Than I Am:’ W.E.B. Du Bois and Maoist China - Humanities Research Center Annual Conference · September 2020 International Meeting or Conference Duke Kunshan University, China
Decentering American Studies: Comparative Approaches to Understanding the US · November 2019 Invited Talk International Committee, American Studies Association, Honolulu, USA
W.E.B Du Bois in China: Translation and Reception - Alliance of Asian Liberal Arts Universities (AALAU) Research Collaboration Workshop · July 2019 Invited Talk Lingnan University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Internationalism in Republican and Maoist China - Chinese Culture and Translation Studies Support · March 2019 Invited Talk Beijing Language and Culture University, China
‘Riddle of the Universe:’ Rethinking Race, Gender and Transnationalism through W.E.B. Du Bois’s Encounters in China - American Studies Association · November 2018 International Meeting or Conference Atlanta, USA
International Collaborations - Asian American Studies Program Launch · November 2018 Invited Talk Duke University, Durham, USA
‘Riddle of the Universe:’ Rethinking Race, Gender and Transnationalism through W.E.B. Du Bois’s Encounters in China. - Humanities Research Center Launch Featured Presentation · September 2018 Invited Talk Duke Kunshan University, China
Langston Hughes: Paris, Harlem, and Shanghai · June 2016 International Meeting or Conference MLA International Symposium, Dusseldorf, Germany
From Mark Twain to Langston Hughes in China - Obama Institute of Transnational American Studies · May 2016 Invited Talk Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
Langston Hughes in Shanghai - Forum on Migration · May 2016 Invited Talk Barnard College / Columbia University, New York, USA
Langston Hughes in China · September 2015 Lecture School of Modern Languages and Culture Series, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Mark Twain in China · June 2015 Invited Talk Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, USA
Mark Twain and the Chinese Connection · March 2015 Invited Talk Centre for Humanities Research, Lingnan University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Mark Twain and African American Voices in China · March 2015 Invited Talk Centre for Humanities Research, Lingnan University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Huckleberry Finn and Chinese Translations · October 2014 Invited Talk American Studies, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA
Mark Twain in China - School of Modern Languages and Culture Series · September 2013 Lecture The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Mark Twain in China: Race, Translation, and the Transnational Setting - The Seventh International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies · August 2013 International Meeting or Conference Elmira, CT, USA
Mark Twain in China: A Posthumous Adventure - Association for Asian American Studies Conference · April 2013 International Meeting or Conference Seattle, USA
Transnational American Studies · September 2012 Lecture American Studies, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Session Chair, “Transnational American Studies, Next Steps” - Oceanic Archives and Transnational American Studies · June 2012 International Meeting or Conference The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in China · May 2012 International Meeting or Conference American Literature Association, San Francisco, USA
Mark Twain’s Adventures in China · April 2012 International Meeting or Conference C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Conference, University of California, Berkeley
Mark Twain · June 2011 Invited Talk English Department, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR
Lighting Out For the Chinese Territory: Mark Twain & ‘Sivilization’ in China - A Tale of Ten Cities: Sino-American Exchange in the Treaty Port Era, 1840-1950 · May 2011 International Meeting or Conference American Studies Program, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Translation · May 2011 Invited Talk English Department, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Was Twain White? Reading Race in the Man & His Works · January 2011 Lecture School of Modern Languages and Culture Series, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Jazz, Rap, and American Culture · October 2010 Lecture American Studies, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
African American Music: an Introduction · October 2010 Lecture American Studies, The University of Hong Kong,
Rap and Youth Cultures · January 2008 Lecture American Studies, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Singing the Hip-hop Politics: September 11 and Beyond in NAS's Rap Poetry · October 2007 International Meeting or Conference American Literature Association, Beijing, China
Session Chair, “American Studies" - Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities · January 2006 International Meeting or Conference Honolulu, USA
Harlem Renaissance & ‘Ghetto Renaissance’: Race Relations in the United States through the Poetry of Langston Hughes and Nasir Jones - Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities · January 2006 International Meeting or Conference Honolulu, USA

Service to the Profession

Editorial Board (Book Review) - American Quarterly · July 2024 Editorial Activities Publication of American Studies Association,
Co-Chair - International Committee · 2023 Professional Development American Studies Association, USA
Conference Planning Committee - 9th International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies · August 2022 Event/Organization Administration Elmira, USA
Chair · 2022 Event/Organization Administration International Committee. American Studies Association, USA
Member · 2021 Committee Service International Committee. American Studies Association, USA
Editorial Board (Book Review) - American Quarterly · July 2024 Editorial Activities Publication of American Studies Association,
Co-Chair - International Committee · 2023 Professional Development American Studies Association, USA
Conference Planning Committee - 9th International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies · August 2022 Event/Organization Administration Elmira, USA
Chair · 2022 Event/Organization Administration International Committee. American Studies Association, USA
Member · 2021 Committee Service International Committee. American Studies Association, USA
Expert Consultant - Chinese Culture and Translation Studies Support · March 2019 - March 2021 Consulting Beijing Language and Culture University, China
Associate Managing Editor - Journal of Transnational American Studies · 2015 Editorial Activities Stanford University ,
Editorial Board - Global Nineteenth-Century Studies · 2011 Editorial Activities Liverpool University Press, UK

Service to Duke

Tenure review committees (University) · 2023 Committee Service
Re-appointment review committees (University) · 2022 Committee Service
Co-Director . Freedom Lab · March 2020 - 2022 Event/Organization Administration Humanities Research Center, DKU
Advisory Board . Humanities Research Centre · 2018 Consulting Duke and DKU,