Dorothy Wang

Professor of American Studies

[email protected]
413-597-3219
Schapiro Hall Rm 216

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

Areas of Expertise

Twentieth-and twenty-first-century poetry and poetics, particularly experimental minority poetry; Asian American literature, especially poetry; Anglophone writing by Chinese in the diaspora; Asian Australian literature; comparative U.S. minority literatures; twentieth-and twenty-first century American 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 / COMP 333 / ENGL 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

  • Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry (Stanford University Press, 2014).

Current Committees

  • American Studies Program