Dr. Ho will present work from her recent book, Racial Ambiguity in Contemporary Asian American Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2015), which examines the theme of racial ambiguity in various modes of cultural production (oral history, new media, literature, film, sports journalism) created predominantly by and about Asian Americans in the late-20th/early 21st century. Dr. Jennifer Ho’s research and teaching interests are in Asian American, Multiethnic American, Contemporary American literature and Critical Race Theory. In particular, Dr. Ho is interested in the construction of contemporary American identities—the topic of my first book, Consumption and Identity in Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels (Routledge Press, 2005)—and anti-racist activism/education. Other book projects include a critical biography on contemporary American writer Gish Jen, Understanding Gish Jen (University of South Carolina Press, Fall 2015) and a co-edited (along with James Donahue and Shaun Morgan) collection of essays, Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the Americas (under review at The Ohio University State Press). Dr. Ho is also co-editing (along with Dr. Jenny Wills) an “Approaches to Teaching Asian North American Literature” through MLA (in-progress). In the future Dr. Ho’s work will focus on a critical autobiography about breast cancer and a study of the Chinese diaspora in the Global South. Dr. Ho is currently the Associate Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC.
Refreshments will be served | Free and open to the public | Sponsored by Asian American Studies.
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