Dorothy Wang

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Professor of American Studies

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413-597-3219
Schapiro Hall Rm 216
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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

AMST 215 / ENGL 217 SEM

Experimental Asian American Writing (not offered 2022/23)

AMST 243 / AFR 243 SEM

Asian/American and Black Literary and Cultural Thought (not offered 2022/23)

AMST 304 / ENGL 388 SEM

Asian American Writing and the Visual Arts (not offered 2022/23)

AMST 307 SEM

Experimental African American Poetry (not offered 2022/23)

AMST 325 / PSCI 333 / AFR 344 SEM

Asian/African American Cultural and Political Theory (not offered 2022/23)

AMST 335 / ARTH 335 SEM

Uncovering Williams (not offered 2022/23)

AMST 336 TUT

Two American Poets: Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery (not offered 2022/23)

AMST 403 / AFR 333 / LATS 403 SEM

New Asian American, African American, Native American, and Latina/o Writing (not offered 2022/23)

AMST 410 / AFR 354 / COMP 410 / ENGL 410 SEM

Black Literary and Cultural Theories (not offered 2022/23)

AMST 465 / ENGL 326 / AFR 362 SEM

Race and Abstraction (not offered 2022/23)

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.

Research Interests

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