Kudos is a celebration of CAALS members’ accomplishments. Tell us about your accomplishments here!

2026

Leland Tabares (Colorado College) and Timothy K. August (Stony Brook), editors. Asian American Mass Culture, Post45 Contemporaries, August 2026.

Akash Belsare (University of Illinois Springfield). Peer-reviewed article or chapter in edited collection: Seeing Past Consumption: Race and Species in the Slaughterhouse. August 2026

Mai-Linh Hong (UC Merced). Book: Continental Drift: Poems. July 2026

2025

Chris A. Eng (Washington University in St. Louis). Book: Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America. February 2025

Howie Tam (Brandeis). Article: “B-Sides: Anthony Veasna So’s Afterparties.” Public Books (January 2025).

Rei  Magosaki (Chapman University). Popular/public writing: “On Sonia C. Gomez’s *Picture Bride, War Bride: The Role of Marriage in Shaping Japanese America*”. January 2025

Timothy K. August (Stony Brook University). Peer-reviewed article or chapter in edited collection: “A Fork in the Road: Cosmopolitanism, Cookbooks, and Vietnamese Street Food.” May 2025

Nancy Carranza (Riverside City College). Peer-reviewed article or chapter in edited collection: “Problematizing the Multiracial Promised Land: Multiracial Settler Belonging in Hawai?i in the Asian American Literary Imagination.” May 2025

Leland Tabares (Colorado College). Popular/public writing: Performing Perfection: The Perfect Asian Dream Boy in Recent Cinema. November 2025

Mai-Linh Hong (University of California, Merced). Popular/public writing: Three Poems: “What we lost may come ashore,” “Everybody Cousin,” “Harvest Moon with Wildfire.” November 2025

Leland Tabares (Colorado College). Peer-reviewed article or chapter in edited collection: “Working Futures After Asians: Automation, AI, and the Global Labor Economy.” 2025

Catherine Nguyen (Emerson College). Awards or fellowships: Institute for Citizens and Scholars Career Enhancement Fellowship. 2025-2026

Marie Myung-Ok  Lee (Columbia). Popular/public writing: NYT article https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/travel/south-korea-k-drama-tourism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sE4.Frdh.kpvxFBBklpur&smid=url-share. December 2025

Roberta Wolfson (Stanford University). Awards or fellowships: “Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State” shortlisted for the 2023-24 MELUS Book Award, December 2025

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)

Jonathan Hsy (George Washington University). Peer-reviewed article or chapter in edited collection: “Disability, Space, and Racial Injustice: Life Writing at Angel Island Immigration Station, 1910–1940.” April 2024

Rei Magosaki (Chapman University). Peer-reviewed article or chapter in edited collection: “Beyond Railroads and Internment? Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Literature and the Foundations of Asian American Literary Studies. April 2024

Shuyue Liu (Beihang University) & Junwu Tian. Article: Amy Tan’s Thing-Narrative in The Valley of Amazement. Critical Arts (June 2024)

Olivia Lafferty (Brown University). Peer-reviewed article or chapter in edited collection: “Vibrant Reading: A Transpacific Poetics of Filipinx American Vernacular Archives.” June 2024

Patricia P. Chu (George Washington University). Peer-reviewed article or chapter in edited collection: “In Search of Just Memory: The Rise of Deimperialization in Asian American Narratives of Return.”  The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature, edited by Gigi Adair, Rebecca Fasselt and Carly McLaughlin.  491-503. August 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.

Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi (UCLA). Peer-reviewed article or chapter in edited collection: “Transpacific Archipelagic Poetics: Connecting Anti-Base Activism in Okinawa with Military Buildup Protests in Guåhan” in Transpacific, Undisciplined, edited by Lily Wong, Christopher Patterson, and Chien-ting Lin. October 2024

Jonathan Hsy (George Washington University). Peer-reviewed article or chapter in edited collection:  “Plantation Labour and Counter-Memory in Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée.” November 2024

Jonathan Hsy (George Washington University). Popular/public writing: (Co-organizer, moderator, and rountable participant) “Taiwanese Americans: Voices Throught the Arts – Virtual Symposium.” November 2024

Timothy August (Stony Brook University). Peer-reviewed article or chapter in edited collection: “Staying in Character: Ocean Vuong and the Usefulness of Refugee Beauty.” December 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)

Leland Tabares (Colorado College). Awards or fellowships: Lloyd E. Worner Teacher of the Year Award. 2024

Julia Lee (UC Irvine). Peer-reviewed article or chapter in edited collection: “BTS and the Labor of Techno-Orientalism.” 2024

Julia Lee (UC Irvine). Peer-reviewed article or chapter in edited collection: “Asian American Settlers, the Neo-frontier Narrative, and the Problem of History.” 2024

Catherine H. Nguyen (Emerson College). Peer-reviewed article or chapter in edited collection: “Ghostly Brothers and Spectral Relations in Vietnamese Diasporic Literature.” Routledge Handbook of the Vietnamese Diaspora, edited by Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen. 2024

2023

Roberta 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).

Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi (UCLA). Book: The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives, co-edited by Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi and Vinh Nguyen. February 2023

Na-Rae Kim (University of Connecticut). Peer-reviewed article or chapter in edited collection: “The Making of North Korean Americans in the Afterlife of Cold War Cultural Politics”. February 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).

Roberta 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)

Leland Tabares (Colorado College). Peer-reviewed article or chapter in edited collection: “Consider the Crawfish: The Politics of Viet-Cajun Fusion in the Gulf Coast.” Fall 2023

Leland Tabares (Co-authored with Stephen Suh, Ruslan Yusupov, Erica Maria Cheung, and Jennifer R. Shutek). Peer-reviewed article or chapter in edited collection: “A&Q: Recipes for Messiness.” Fall 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).

Catherine H. Nguyen (Emerson College). Peer-reviewed article or chapter in edited collection: co-authored with Tess Do: “Linda Lê in Translation: Foreignization and Domestication in the English and Vietnamese Translations of Calomnies”. December 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)

Catherine H. Nguyen (Emerson College). Popular/public writing:  “One Day We’ll Go Home_” – featuring Tiffany Chung, Brandon Tho Harris, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Patricia Nguyen and Julian Saporiti. Curated by Leonie Bradbury; exhibit text by Catherine H. Nguyen. November-December 2023.

Leland Tabares (Colorado College). Peer-reviewed article or chapter in edited collection: “Unhappy Asians: Decolonizing the Good Life in Lee Sung Jin’s Beef.” 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).

Roberta Wolfson (Stanford University). Encyclopedia entry: “Celeste Ng” in The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction 1980–2020. (March 2022).

Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi (UCLA). Book: Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine. April 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)

Julia Lee (UC Irvine). Book: The Racial Railroad. 2022.

Julia Lee (UC Irvine). Peer-reviewed article or chapter in edited collection: “Teaching the Transnational in Asian North American Novels.” 2022