Dorothy Wang

Professor of American Studies and Faculty Affiliate in English

[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 128 / COMP 128 / ENGL 128

Reading Asian American Literature

AMST 215 / COMP 215 / ENGL 217

Experimental Asian American Writing

AMST 301(S)

Theories and Methods in American Studies (Junior Seminar)

AMST 304 / COMP 307 / ENGL 388

Asian American Writing and the Visual Arts

ENGL 327 / AFR 301 S / AMST 307 S / COMP 311 S

Experimental African American Poetry

AMST 335 / ARTH 335(S)

Uncovering Williams

AMST 336 T / ENGL 320 S / COMP 335 S

Two American Poets: Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery

LATS 403 / COMP 375 S / ENGL 375 S / AFR 403 S / AMST 403 S

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

ENGL 410 / AFR 410 S / AMST 410 S / COMP 410 S

Black Literary and Cultural Theories

COMP 465 / ENGL 326 S / AFR 465 S / AMST 465 S

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