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2024
Aline Lo (Colorado College) & Swati Rana (UC Santa Barbara). Special journal issue: Creativity and Critique in Asian American Literature. Amerasia Journal (March 2024).
Hilda Ma (Saint Mary’s College of California). Article: “Reeducating The Sympathizer: Refugee Aesthetics and Intertextuality Recode the Western Canon.” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory (Volume 35, Issue 1, 1–17). (March 2024)
Shuyue Liu (Beihang University) & Junwu Tian. Article: Amy Tan’s Thing-Narrative in The Valley of Amazement. Critical Arts (June 2024)
Roberta Wolfson (Stanford University). Book: Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the U.S. Security State. July 2024.
Jennifer Cho (University of Maryland). Article: “The Kiss and the Cut”: Reassembling the Techno-Orientalist Clone through Multispecies Grief and Intimacy in Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu. WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly. Fall/Winter 2024.
Howie Tam (Brandeis University). Book chapter: Diasporic Vietnamese Metafiction of the 1.5 and Second Generations. Routledge Handbook of the Vietnamese Diaspora, edited by Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen. (2024)
2023
Robert Wolfson (Stanford University). Article: “A Man of Two Faces and Two Minds”: Just Memory and Metatextuality in The Sympathizer’s Rewriting of the Vietnam War. College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies (January 2023).
Yuemin He (Northern Virginia Community College). Article: “How Can a Culturally Responsive Discussion of the Five-Paragraph Essay Help Asian American Students Write Well.” Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges (April 2023)
Howie Tam (Brandeis University). Article: Of Scrolls and Tears: Trinh Mai’s Archival Art and Organic Ephemera. Verge: Studies in Global Asias, vol. 9, no. 1, 2023 (Spring 2023).
Sandra Kim (Stony Brook University). Article: “Ethical Memory and Re-Presenting History Across Empire: The Korean War in Rolando Hinojosa’s Klail City Death Trip.” Journal of the Southwest (May 2023).
Howie Tam (Brandeis University). Book chapter: “Refugee Racial Form, Vietnam War Legacies and Late Liberal Affects.” Refugees, Refuge and Human Displacement. (June 2023).
Robert Wolfson (Stanford University). Article: “(Mis)Reading in the Age of Terror: Promoting Racial Literacy through Counter-Colonial Narrative Resistance in the Post-9/11 Muslim Novel.” College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies (July 2023).
Joey S. Kim (University of Toledo). Book chapter: “Resisting Anti-Asian Racism in Public-Facing Work and Teaching.” Chapter in Scholars in COVID Times, Publicly Engaged Scholars: Identities, Purposes, Practices, Eds. Scott Peters, Anna Sims Bartel, and Debra Castillo. (August 2023)
Michele Janette (Kansas State University). Article: “Dao Strom’s Grass Roof Tin Roof as Settler Refugee Critique.” Western American Literature, Univ of Nebraska Press. (Winter 2023)
Howie Tam (Brandeis University). Article: ‘Reste métèque’: Linda Lê’s Problematic Nation in Calomnies. L’Esprit Créateur. (Winter 2023).
Joey S. Kim (University of Toledo). Popular/public writing: “Upon Arrival: Making Family in the Korean and Dominican Diaspora.” AAxL: Asian American x Latinx Critical and Digital Studies; Fordham University. (December 2023)
2022
Timothy K. August (Stony Brook University) Article: “The Refugee, Recently: Souvankham Thammavongsa, Phillip Huynh, and the Aesthetics of Heterogeneity.” Canadian Literature. (February 2022).
Joey S. Kim (University of Toledo). Article: “Orientalism Restated in the Era of COVID-19,” Asian American Literature: Discourses and Pedagogies (March 2022).
Robert Wolfson (Stanford University). Encyclopedia entry: “Celeste Ng” in The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction 1980–2020. (March 2022).
Timothy K. August (Stony Brook University) Article: “Diasporic Still Life: Midnight at the Dragon Café and the Cultural Politics of Stasis.” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. (June 2022).
Yuemin He (Northern Virginia Community College). Book chapter: “Teaching Asian North American Literature in a Community College Classroom.” Teaching Asian North American Texts (MLA teaching series) (July 2022).
Shuyue Liu (Beihang University) & Junwu Tian. Article: “A multidimensional and digital humanistic analysis of style in Amy Tan’s novels.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 38, Issue 3, (September 2023)