Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2004 

A.B., Harvard University, 1998

Hsuan L. Hsu joined the UC Davis faculty in 2008. His interests include 19th and 20th-Century U.S. literature, Asian American Literature, visual culture, cultural geography, comparative racialization, and environmental justice literature. His book, Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, examines the representation of spatial scales in works by authors including Charles Brockden Brown, Herman Melville, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Sui Sin Far. He is working on a book-length study of Mark Twain's writings about Chinese immigration, the annexation of Hawai'i, and the U.S.-Philippine War. His courses have examined topics such as point of view, literatures of the American west, the literature of place, geographies of risk, and transnational American literature.

publications:

• Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2010. 257pp.
• Circa 1898. Special Forum for the Journal of Transnational American Studies. Guest Editor. Vol.3, Issue 2 (2011).
• Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton)'s Mrs. Spring Fragrance. Broadview Press, 2011.

• "Guahan (Guam), Literary Emergence, and the American Pacific in Homebase and from unincorporated territory." American Literary History 24:2 (Summer 2012): 281-307.
• "Fatal Contiguities: Metonymy and Environmental Justice." New Literary History 42:1 (Winter 2011) 147-68.
• "Asian American Chronotopes and the American West." In A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West. Ed. Nicolas Witschi. Oxford: Blackwell, 2011. 145-60.
• "Mika Rottenberg's Productive Bodies." Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 25:2 (2010) 40-73.
• "A Connecticut Yankee in the Court of Wu Chih Tien: Mark Twain and Wong Chin Foo." Common-Place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life 11:1 (Oct 2010).
• "Vagrancy, Comparative Racialization, and Civil Death in Huckleberry Finn." American Literature 81:4 (Dec 2009) 687-717.
• "The Dangers of Biosecurity: The Host and the Geopolitics of Outbreak." Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media 51 (Spring 2009).
• "Health Media and Global Inequalities." Co-authored with Martha Lincoln. Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 138:2 (Spring 2009), 20-30.
• "New Regionalisms: Literature and Uneven Development." In A Companion to the Modern American Novel. Ed. John T. Matthews (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), 218-39. 
• Race, Environment, and Representation. Co-edited with Mark Feldman. Special issue of Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture 29:2-3 (Spring and Fall 2007).
• "Biopower, Bodies...the Exhibition, and the Spectacle of Public Health." Co-authored with Martha Lincoln. Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture 29:1 (Winter 2007): 15-34.
• American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500-1900. Co-edited with Martin Brückner. University of Delaware Press, 2007.
• Wong Chin Foo's Periodical Writing and Chinese Exclusion. Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 39:3-4 (Fall/Winter 2006): 83-105.

• "Literature and Regional Production." American Literary History 17:1 (Spring 2005): 36-69.
• "Authentic Recreations: Ideology, Practice, and Regional History along Buena Park's Entertainment Corridor," in True West: Authenticity in the American West, 304-27, eds. William Handley and Nathaniel Lewis (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2004).
• "Regarding Mimicry: Race and Visual Ethics in Invisible Man." Arizona Quarterly 59:2 (Summer 2003): 107-40.
• "War, Ekphrasis, and Elliptical Form in Melville's Battle-Pieces." Nineteenth Century Studies 16 (2002): 51-71.
• "Democratic Expansionism in 'Memoirs of Carwin.'" Early American Literature 35:2 (Fall 2000): 137-56.