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Continue reading →: On Stories to Which the Ending Is Already Known: Eric Wagner on “After the Blast”In 2018, I published a book about some penguins in Argentina that are near and dear to my heart, and as a result I did a number of book talks hither and yon. Once people had run out of questions about the penguins during the Q&As, someone would often ask…
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Continue reading →: The Controversial Origin of Asian American Studies
by Tara Fickle Adapted from Tara Fickle’s foreword to Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers, Third Edition, edited by Frank Chin, Jeffery Paul Chan, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Shawn Wong, published by University of Washington Press. I initially encountered Aiiieeeee! in the winter of 2003, during my first Asian…
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Continue reading →: Guest Post: Mark Stuart Ong on His Mother Jade Snow Wong’s LegacyThe new edition of Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong includes a new introduction by Leslie Bow, Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of ‘Partly Colored’: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South. Prior to the book’s publication in…
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Continue reading →: The Legacy of Women’s History MonthMarch is Women’s History Month—a month-long celebration of the vital role women have played in American history. Observed for over thirty years, Women’s History Month owes much of its legacy to the academics and activists who in the 1970s pushed for more recognition of Women’s Studies as an important area…
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