Writing About Race
The following are some comments about writing about race that I have started to share with my students. 1. It’s customary in US Ethnic Studies NOT to use hyphens between […]
A Conversation with a Trump Voter
On the way to the airport, my driver, who is maybe in his late twenties, asks, – You Korean? I can tell just by looking at you. I have a […]
My Visit to the ER in Italy
It’s January. A year ago today we were trying to acclimate to life in Italy (I was teaching at a school in Venice for the spring semester). A lot happened […]
#PostElectionSyllabus
Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism J. Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure Lisa Cacho, Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected Achille Mbembe, “Necropolitcs” Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth […]
Contemporary American Fiction: Graduate Seminar (Fall 2016, Syllabus)
DESCRIPTION This seminar examines works of American fiction published within the past two decades with a special focus on the novel. The reading list highlights the growing diversity of authors […]
How to Predict a Future with Climate Change
In Venice (of all places!), I’ve been teaching a course entitled “The Artful Things of Climate Change.” Its focus was on the relationship between culture and this phenomenon that […]
Artful Things of Climate Change (Syllabus)
Description As we reach a rough consensus that global warming is happening and that human activity is the primary driver of this warming, the really difficult questions emerge with greater […]
