In 2011, I wrote a blog post titled, “Has Asian American Studies Failed?”1 In it, I vented my frustrations about the fact that, despite 40 years of work in Asian…
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Asian American Mass Culture, Contemporaries Essays
Asian American Mass Culture, Contemporaries Essays
Introduction: Asian American Mass Culture
Asian Americans seem to be everywhere these days. No longer confined to ethnic enclaves or niche subcultures, they populate our television screens winning academy awards and Olympic medals. They inhabit…
Peer Reviewed Articles
Peer Reviewed Articles
Contemporaries Essays, The Specter of High School English
Fostering Adaptive Readers
Percival Everett’s James is, among other things, a book about how to read well. Everett’s narrator James, his reimagined Jim, is a reader who relates in critical and playful ways…
Contemporaries Essays, The Specter of High School English
Teaching Writing for the Here-and-Now
In July, I’ll teach an introduction to humanities class for a group of soon-to-be high school seniors. A month later, I’ll teach a general education writing class to first-year college…
Contemporaries Essays, The Specter of High School English
Teaching in the Age of Attention: A Conversation with High School English Teachers
This piece is a collaborative effort between teachers of literature in high schools and college. It represents a conversation that bridges professional discussion about instruction across levels, and it provides…
Contemporaries Essays, The Specter of High School English
The Death of the Book: Mourning Literature Lost
Death Scene 1: Burned One of the earliest memories of Iowa involved watching a 27 minute long Facebook Live recording in 2018 in which Paul Dorr, Director of Rescue the…