English Department

Min Hyoung Song

english department

Min Song  

Associate Professor

A.B., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Ph.D., Tufts University

Carney Hall 445
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Phone: 617-552-1655
Fax: 617-552-4220
Email: songm@bc.edu
http://www2.bc.edu/~songm

Academic Profile

Specializes in Asian American, ethnic American, and twentieth-century American literature, with a special interest in cultural studies and literary theory.

Courses

  • EN246 - Intro to Asian American Literature I
  • EN840 - Contemporary American Fiction

Publications (selected)

  • Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots  Durham: Duke University Press, 2005).
  • Asian American Studies: A Reader (co-edited with Jean Wu). New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press 2000.
  • Guest Editor, Issue on "Asian Americans and Violence." Journal of Asian American Studies, 11.1 (2008).
  • "'How Good it is to Be a Monkey':  Racial Formation and Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese.”  Mosaic, forthcoming.
  •  “Communities of Remembrance: Reflections on the Virginia Tech Shootings and Race.”  Journal of Asian American Studies, 11.1 (2008), 1-26.
  • “The Children of 1965: Allegory, Postmodernism, and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake.”  Special Issue: “After Postmodernism: Form and History in Contemporary American Fiction,” guest edited by Andrew Hoberek.  Twentieth-Century Literature 53:3 (2007), 345-370.
  • Looking Back: Diasporic Longing in Citizen 13660 and Persepolis.”  In Ethnic Life Writings and Histories, edited by Rocío Davis.  Munster: LIT Verlag, 2007.  115-132.
  • "Sentimentalism and Sui Sin Far," Legacy. A Journal of American Women Writers
    20:1-2 (2003), 134-152.
  • “A Diasporic Future?  Native Speaker and Historical Trauma.”  LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 12 (2001), 79-98.
  • “The Unknowable and Sui Sin Far: The Epistemological Limits of ‘Oriental’ Sexuality.”  In Q&A: Queer in Asian America, edited by David Eng and Alice Hom.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. 306-322.
  • “Pahkar Singh’s Argument with Asian America: Color and the Structure of Race Formation.” In  A Part, Yet Apart: South Asians in Asian America, edited by Rajini Srikanth and Lavina Shankar.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998.  79-104.