"Little Intimacies: Race and Oceanic Migration in Minority US Fiction" [Work-In-Progress]
"Little Intimacies: Race and Oceanic Migration in Minority US Fiction" [Work-In-Progress]
A discussion with Dr. Emily Yoon Perez, UMD PhD 2018; Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of English, University of Maryland. Open to the University of Maryland community only. Paper will be circulated one week in advance. AI live captioning available, upon request.
Please email Tita Chico (tchico@umd.edu) for paper and zoom meeting link.
Co-sponsored with the University Libraries, the Office of Graduate Diversity and Inclusion and The Graduate School.
Bio
Dr. Emily Yoon Perez, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Maryland, College Park. She earned her M.A. in Humanities with a concentration in Literary Studies from the University of Texas at Dallas and her B.A. in English from Johns Hopkins University. Her research investigates transnational formations of race as represented in minority U.S. literatures, expanding the scope of American literature and American understandings of race from the national to the global. Her book project focuses on the migrations and intimacies of minority subjects, bringing together transnational literary studies, comparative racialization studies, postcolonial theory, and ethnic studies.
Q&A moderated by Sharada Balachandran Orihuela.
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