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

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

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

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