Professor and Chair of the American Studies Program
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
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
AMST 215 / ENGL 217
Experimental Asian American Writing (not offered 2020/20)AMST 243 / AFR 243
Asian/American and Black Literary and Cultural Thought (not offered 2020/20)AMST 304 / ENGL 388
Asian American Writing and the Visual Arts (not offered 2020/20)AMST 307
Experimental African American Poetry (not offered 2020/20)AMST 335 / ARTH 335
Uncovering Williams (not offered 2020/20)AMST 336 T
Two American Poets: Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery (not offered 2020/20)AMST 403 / AFR 333 / LATS 403
New Asian American, African American, Native American, and Latina/o Writing (not offered 2020/20)AMST 410 / AFR 354 / COMP 410 / ENGL 410
Black Literary and Cultural Theories (not offered 2020/20)AMST 465 / ENGL 326 / AFR 362
Race and Abstraction (not offered 2020/20)Scholarship/Creative Work
- Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry (Stanford University Press, 2014).
Current Committees
- American Studies Program
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