Teaching Experience

I teach in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA, where I also hold an
affiliate appointment in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media. Prior to joining UCLA, I taught for 14 years at UC, Santa Barbara and have also taught courses at Columbia University and Seoul National University. I teach a variety of courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level, some of which courses include:
Popular Culture in Modern Chinese Societies
Translation Workshop
Modern Chinese Literature
Contemporary Chinese Literature and Film
Independent Chinese Cinema
Chinese Masters: Jia Zhangke
The Cultural Revolution
Trauma in Modern Chinese Cultural Memory
New Taiwan Cinema

Get in touch

For information on what courses I am currently offering, please visit the UCLA Schedule of
Classes: https://sa.ucla.edu/ro/public/soc
For outside speaking engagements, please contact me at: berry@humnet.ucla.edu

Selected Lectures:

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2019-present   Director, Center for Chinese Studies 

    International Institute, UCLA

2017-2019    Vice-Chair 

    Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA

2016-present   Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies

    Department of Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA

    Affiliate Appointment: Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media

2016 (winter)    Acting Chair

    Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, UCSB

2015-2016     Director of Graduate Studies

    Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, UCSB

2013-2016      Director 

    East Asia Center, UCSB

2011-2016      Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies

    Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, UCSB

Affiliate appointments: Asian American Studies, Comparative Literature, and Film and Media Studies

2006-2011    Associate Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies

    Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, UCSB

2010    Distinguished Visiting Professor, Seoul National University.

    SNU International Summer Institute, Seoul National University (SNU)

    Seoul, Republic of Korea

2004–2006     Assistant Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies

    Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, UCSB

2003-2004    Acting Assistant Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies 

    Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, UCSB  

2001 Adjunct Professor, Columbia University.

    Summer Session, New York, NY.

2001-2003 Graduate Student Instructor, Columbia University. 

Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, New York, NY.

  2000-2001 Lecturer/Teaching assistant, Columbia University. 

  Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, New York, NY.

1997-1998     Teaching Assistant, Rutgers University. 

Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, New Brunswick, NJ;