Dorothy Wang

Professor of American Studies

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413-597-3219
Schapiro Hall Rm 216
Office Hours

Education

B.A. Duke University
M.P.A. Princeton University, International Affairs
M.A. Johns Hopkins University, Writing
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, English Literature

Courses

Note: courses in gray are not offered this academic year.

AMST 101(F)

America: The Nation and Its Discontents

AMST 215 / ENGL 217

Experimental Asian American Writing

AMST 243 / AFR 243(S)

Asian/American and Black Literary and Cultural Thought

AMST 304 / ENGL 388

Asian American Writing and the Visual Arts

AMST 307 / AFR 301 / ENGL 327(F)

Experimental African American Poetry

AMST 335 / ARTH 335

Uncovering Williams

AMST 336 T

Two American Poets: Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery

AMST 403 / AFR 333 / LATS 403(S)

New Asian American, African American, Native American, and Latina/o Writing

AMST 410 / AFR 354 / COMP 410 / ENGL 410

Black Literary and Cultural Theories

AMST 465 / ENGL 326 / AFR 362

Race and Abstraction

Scholarship/Creative Work

Books

Her monograph, Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry, was published in 2014 by Stanford University Press. It won the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Literary Criticism and was also awarded Honorable Mention by the Pegasus Awards for Poetry Criticism, given by the Poetry Foundation:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/criticism-award

Thinking Its Presence

Articles & Essays

  • “Asian American Poetry and the Politics of Form,” The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature, ed. by Min Song and Rajini Srikanth, Cambridge UP, 2015.
  • “Speculative Notes on Bhanu Kapil’s Monstrous/ Cyborgian/ Schizophrenic Poetics,” in Nests and Strangers: On Asian American Women Poets, ed. by Timothy Yu, Kelsey Street Press, 2015.
  • “From Jim Crow to ‘Color-Blind’ Poetics” in the “Race and the Poetic Avant-Garde” online forum, Boston Review, March 10, 2015.

Current Committees

  • American Studies Program

Research Interests

  • Contemporary poetry in English
  • Experimental minority poetry
  • Asian American poetry
  • Twentieth-Century poetry
  • Poetics
  • Anglophone Chinese diasporic literature