Emily Chen

Smiling Chinese American woman with black hair in a ponytail and blunt bangs in navy denim dress and white cardigan among sunlit columns
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Voorhies 348
Office Hours
W, R 10am-12pm by Zoom. Email for link.
Bio

Conference Presentations:

  • Global Asias 2027 (Panel: 'The Place(making) of Circulations') — forthcoming
  • NEMLA 2027 (Panel: 'Reckoning with or Wrecking?: Asian American Injury in Literature and Media') — forthcoming
  • SAMLA 2026 (Panels: 'Narrative Hospitality: Ethics, Memory, and Alterity in Literary Representation'; 'Unsettling the Threshold: Asian American Literature, Culture, and Politics of Hospitality')
  • ACLA 2023 (Panel: 'Between Self-representation and Ethnography: Diasporic Subjectivity Reconsidered')

Non-academic Publications:

Education and Degree(s)
  • University of Oxford: MSt World Literatures in English, 2023
  • Williams College: Honors BAs in Comparative Literature & Political Economy, 2022
Honors and Awards
  • Ertegun Graduate Scholarship in the Humanities
  • Roche & Gomez Research Fellowship
Courses
  • ENL 154: The Graphic Novel (TA)
Research Interests & Expertise
  • Asian American literature
  • American studies
  • Critical race and ethnic studies
  • Narratology
  • Formalism
  • Theory of the novel
  • Literary fiction
  • Creative writing
Membership and Service
  • sinθ (Sine Theta Magazine), Senior Editor