 | Betsy HuangAssistant Professor of English |
B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1989 Brief BiographyProfessor Huang researches and teaches representations of ethnic identities and politics in 20th-century American literature and popular culture. Her scholarship focuses on literary treatments of ethnicity in narratives about immigration, assimilation, and citizenship, and she is particularly interested in the ways in which the "ethnic" and the "American" persist as mutually exclusive terms in the American cultural consciousness. She is also investigating the affinities between ethnic literature and science fiction, two bodies of work that, in her view, share similar critical and theoretical aims in their treatments of difference and alterity. Her current book project, titled Genres of Ethnicity, examines formal and political dialectics in highly conventionalized genres of ethnic literature. Her work has appeared in Journal of Asian American Studies, MELUS: Journal of the Multi-Ehnic Literature of the U.S., and on ForeignPolicy.com, and she is the Book Review Editor of MELUS. Her courses include Major American Writers II, Ethnic America: Literary and Theoretical Perspectives, Fictions of Asian America, Aliens and Others in Science Fiction, and a first-year seminar on speculative fiction.Current Research and TeachingFor more information about my work, please visit my Active Learning and Research pages.
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