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Grace Hong

gracehong@asianam.ucla.edu

   

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E-mail: gracehong@asianam.ucla.edu

Curriculum Vitae

 

Education  
  Ph.D.  Literature, University of California, San Diego, 2000
  M.A. Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 1994
  B.A. English, University of California, Los Angeles, 1992
   
Dissertation  
  “The Histories of the Propertyless: Women of Color Feminism”
Advisor: Lisa Lowe; Committee members: Rosemary George, George Lipsitz, Rosaura Sanchez, Shelley Streeby, Lisa Yoneyama.
   
Academic Appointments  
  2005-present—Assistant Professor, Department of Asian American Studies and Program in Women’s Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
  2006-present— (on leave) Associate Professor, Department of English and Program in Asian American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  2002-2006—Assistant Professor, Department of English and Program in Asian American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  1999-2002—Assistant Professor, Department of English and Program in American Studies, Princeton University
   
Awards and Honors  
  Honorable Mention, 2008 Cultural Studies Book Award, Association for Asian American Studies for Ruptures of American Capital
  UCLA Institute of American Cultures Faculty Research Grant, 2007-2008
  UCLA Center for the Study of Women Faculty Development Grant, 2006-7
  University of Wisconsin System Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Faculty Research Award
  University of Wisconsin Madison Graduate Research Award, Summer 2004
  University of California President’s Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2001-2002
  250th Anniversary Grant for Teaching Development, Princeton University, 1999
  Civil Liberties Public Education Fund National Fellow, 1997-1998
   
Publications  
  Books
  The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and The Culture of Immigrant Labor. University of Minnesota Press, 2006
  Articles
  “’The Future of Our Worlds: Black Feminism and the Politics of Knowledge in the University Under Globalization,” Meridians 8.2 (2008): 425-445.
  “Most Overrated Western Virtue”: The Politics of Knowledge in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth. In Immigration and Migration, Social Change, and Cultural Transformation, ed. Emory Elliott. New York, NY: Palgrave-MacMillan (2008), 15-45.
  “The Ghosts of Transnational American Studies,” American Quarterly 59.1 (March 2007), 33-39.
  “‘A Shared Queerness’: Colonialism, Transnationalism, and Sexuality in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night.” Meridians 7.1 (Fall 2006): 73-103.
  “Nation and Empire in Arnold Genthe’s Photographs of San Francisco’s Chinese Quarter, 1895-1906.” Journal of the West 43.4 (December 2004): 8-14.
  "’Something Forgotten that Should Have Been Remembered:’ Private Property and Cross-Racial Solidarity in the Work of Hisaye Yamamoto.” American Literature, 71.2 (1999): 291-310.
  Guest Editorships
  Hitting Critical Mass: Journal of Asian American Literary and Cultural Criticism 5.2 (Fall 1998), 130 pp.
  Entries in Reference Collections
  “Property,” Keywords for American Cultural Studies, eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York University Press, 2007.
  Book Reviews
  "Past Legacies, Future Projects: Asian Migration and the Role of the University under Globalization." Diaspora 10.1 (Spring 2001): 117-27.
  Rachel Lee's The Americas of Asian America and Patricia Chu's Assimilating Asians. Signs 27.3 (December 2001): 910-13.
  “The Limits of the Nation-State, the Possibilities of Asian American Literature,” American Quarterly 52.4 (December 2000): 750-55.
  Interviews
  "Interview with Janice Mirikitani," in Words Matter, ed. King-Kok Cheung, University of Hawaii Press, 2000.
  Bibliographies
  “Annotated Bibliography on Women, Labor, and Globalization.” Critical Mass (Spring 1998). Also available at http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~critmass/
   
Works Under Contract  
  Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization. Edited collection, with Roderick Ferguson, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Under contract, Duke University Press.
  “Blues Imaginaries and Queer Reproduction.” Article version of one of the chapters from Death as Possibility monograph project. Accepted for Capital Q, eds. Amy Villarejo and Jordana Rosenberg, under contract with Duke University Press.
   
Works in Progress  
  Death as Possibility: Governmentalities of Globalization and Racialized Contradiction. Monograph project. Introduction, four chapters, and a conclusion. Two chapters in publication process as articles. Two other chapters drafted. Estimated date of completion, Fall 2008.

 

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