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Prof. Alexander C. Y. Huang
Founding Co-Director of the GW Digital Humanities Institute
Director, Dean's Scholars in Shakespeare Program
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English
Professor of English, Theatre and Dance
East Asian Languages and Literatures and International Affairs
Department of English
George Washington University
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Feel free to stop by Prof. Huang's office to discuss course materials, career planning, or your overall well-being. Prof. Huang enjoys teaching classes of various sizes at all levels, and frequently incorporates films and other visual materials to help students develop both critical thinking skills and visual literacy. Among Prof. Huang's favorite authors are Shakespeare, Hermann Hesse, and such humorists and satirists as Oscar Wilde, Wang Shuo, Lao She, and Qian Zhongshu.
Prof. Huang has studied at Stanford, Oxford, Leeds, Göttingen (where brothers Grimm collected and edited their famous fairy tales), Trier (the birthplace of Karl Marx), Munich, Tsinghua University, as well as Strasbourg (the capital of Alsace province known for its Petite France area and gastronomy).
Interviews
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Excerpts from Prof. Alexander Huang's guest appearance on BBC 2's "Review Show" (Television) on 19 August 2011 which covered the 2011 Edinburgh International Festival
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Presentation during congressional briefing "National Security and Other Global Challenges through Cultural Understanding: A Briefing on the Humanities in the 21st Century," Rayburn House Office Building, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., May 16, 2013; sponsored by the National Humanities Alliance in cooperation with the Congressional Humanities Caucus Video
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Excerpts from Alex Huang's guest appearance on BBC World Service's "Shakespeare Special" on April 21, 2012
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University of Western Australia, Perth, iVEC national supercomputing center interviews keynote speaker Alex Huang, 29 June 201 [YouTube]
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Excerpts from Alex Huang's guest appearance on BBC The Strand on April 17, 2012
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Excerpts from Prof. Alexander Huang's guest appearance on BBC Radio's "Classics Unwrapped" presented by Jamie MacDougall, 14 August 2011
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"Bringing Shakespeare to Life": story about Prof. Huang's work in GW Hatchet, 25 August, 2011. Read online or download the PDF version.
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"All the World's a Stage: Alex Huang at GW": story about new digital tools Prof. Huang is using in class, 9 September, 2011.
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Story about Prof. Huang's work on cultural globalization, 30 August, 2011.
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Story about Prof. Huang's new book, 25 May, 2011
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Feature story and interview, Research||Penn State, Fall 2010 issue (online and in print)
Read online (with videos)
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Videos of highlights of stage and film versions of Shakespeare in China, Tibet, Hong Kong, Singapore and London, with commentary
Bilingual King Lear in London: Highlights
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WPSU-TV: "Reinventing Shakespeare: Lobby Talks with Actors from the London Stage, Penn State, Nov. 15 and 18, 2007. <Video Online> |
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WPSU-TV interview, Pennsylvania Inside Out, Penn State, October 29, 2007. <Video Online> |
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Bilingual King Lear in London: Highlights |
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