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, cultural geography, visual culture, comparative racialization, and theories of globalization. He is currently completing a book, Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, which examines the representation of spatial scales in works by authors such as Charles Brockden Brown, Herman Melville, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Sui Sin Far. His courses have examined topics such as point of view, ethnic literature, the representation of place, and the relation between literature and visual art.

Publications:

• Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Book manuscript under contract with Cambridge University Press.
• 1898 and Transnational American Studies. Special Forum for the Journal of Transnational American Studies. Guest Editor. In Progress.

• "Vagrancy, Comparative Racialization, and Civil Death in Huckleberry Finn." Forthcoming in American Literature.
• "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.

• "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.