Associate Professor
gkhong@wisc.edu
PhD, Literature, UC-San Diego, 2000
MA, Asian American Studies, UCLA, 1995
BA, English, UCLA, 1992
Asian American literature and history, 20th century American literature, U.S. ethnic literature, globalization, feminist theory, historical materialism.
The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant Labor (University of Minnesota, 2006); "'A Shared Queerness': Colonialism, Transnationalism, and Sexuality in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night." Meridians 7.1 (2006).
Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization, co-edited with Roderick Ferguson; Second monograph project on race, gender, and social death.