Featured AASRN member

Dorothy Wang

The AASRN featured member is:

DOROTHY WANG
Assistant Professor, American Studies Program/Department of English, Williams College (MA, USA)

Dorothy Wang, Williams College, MA, USA

Dorothy Wang is an assistant professor in the American Studies Program and faculty affiliate in the Department of English at Williams College (Williamstown, Massachusetts). She has recently completed a book manuscript, Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry, which is forthcoming from Stanford University Press. It is the first book on Asian American poetry to give a sustained analysis of the relation between formal concerns and questions of social context. Thinking Its Presence joins in its analytical framework methods and areas of study usually considered disparate, if not mutually exclusive—formal analysis, literary history, reader reception, race studies, and avant-garde writing.

Wang’s teaching and research interests include Asian American poetry, experimental minority writing, Anglophone Chinese diasporic literature, and twentieth-century and contemporary English-language poetry. She recently presented a talk “Does Anglophone Chinese Diasporic Avant-garde Writing Exist?"—one of the keynote addresses at Wenche Ommundsen’s workshop “Globalising Australian literature: Asian-Australian writing, Asian perspectives on Australian literature” at the University of Wollongong—and has published on Simone Lazaroo’s novel The World Waiting to be Made in Diaspora: Negotiating Asian Australia (2000).

Wang grew up in North Carolina and did her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of David C. Lloyd. She previously taught in the English Departments at Northwestern University and Wesleyan University in the United States.

From 2009-2010, she was a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University in New York City.