Associate Professor of American Studies and Faculty Affiliate in English
[email protected] 413-597-3219Schapiro 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
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 128 / COMP 128 / ENGL 128
Reading Asian American LiteratureAMST 215 / COMP 215 / ENGL 217
Experimental Asian American WritingAMST 304 / COMP 307 / ENGL 388
Asian American Writing and the Visual ArtsENGL 327 / AFR 301 / AMST 307 / COMP 311
Experimental African American PoetryAMST 335 / ARTH 335
Uncovering WilliamsAMST 336 T / ENGL 320 / COMP 335
Two American Poets: Wallace Stevens and John AshberyLATS 403 / COMP 375 / ENGL 375 / AFR 403 / AMST 403
New Asian American, African American, Native American, and Latina/o WritingENGL 410 / AFR 410 / AMST 410 / COMP 410
Black Literary and Cultural TheoriesCOMP 465 / ENGL 326 / AFR 465 / AMST 465
Race and AbstractionScholarship/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
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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.
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“From Jim Crow to ‘Color-Blind’ Poetics” in the “Race and the Poetic Avant-Garde” online forum, Boston Review, March 10, 2015.
Research Interests
- Contemporary poetry in English
- Experimental minority poetry
- Asian American poetry
- Twentieth-Century poetry
- Poetics
- Anglophone Chinese diasporic literature
Current Committees
- American Studies Program
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