English Department Faculty
Min Hyoung Song
Professor; Department Chair
Min Hyoung Song
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall S495
Telephone: 617-552-1655
Email: min.song@bc.edu
Education
- A.B., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
- Ph.D., Tufts University
Department
Biography
Min Hyoung Song is the Chair of the English Department, and the former director of the Asian American Studies Program. His most recent book is Climate Lyricism, which won the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) Ecocritical Book Prize and has been short-listed for the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) Brook Prize. He is also the author of two other books, The Children of 965: On Writing and Not Writing as an Asian American and Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. The Children of 1965 won the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Prize in Literary Criticism, the Alpha Sigma Nu Award in Literature and Fine Arts, and received an Honorable Mention for the ASAP Book Prize. He is the general editor (with Rajini Srikanth) of the four-volume series "Asian American Literature in Transition" for Cambridge University Press, and co-editor (with Rajini Srikanth) of The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature. In addition to numerous shorter publications in edited volumes and academic journals, his writings have appeared in venues like the Los Angeles Review of Books, Washington Post, Chronicle of Higher Education, Public Books, The Chicago Review of Books, and the Margins.
Publications
- Climate Lyricism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. (This book is open access.)
- Asian American Literature in Transition (series co-editor with Rajini Srikanth). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Cambridge History of Asian American Literature (co-edited with Rajini Srikanth). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press 2015.
- The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013.
- 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.
- “Racial Capitalism and the Border.” American Literary History 34:3 (August 2022), 1041-1051.
- “Children in Transit / Children in Peril: The Contemporary US Novel in a Time of Climate Crisis.” In Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Environment, edited by Susan Parrish and Sarah Ensor. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- “Children of the Future.” In Race in American Literature and Culture, edited by John Richard Ernst. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- “Through the Arc of the Rain Forest as Planetary Fiction.” In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita, edited by Pamela Thoma and Ruth Hsu. New York: MLA Publications, 2021.
- “Asian American Literature in the Twenty-First Century.” Massachusetts Review (December 2018).
- “Viet Thanh Nguyen and the Scholar-Public Intellectual.” PMLA 133:2 (Spring 2018), 406-412.
- "The Artful Things of Climate Change." In Racial Ecologies, edited by Kim D. Hester Williams and LeiLani Nishime. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018.
- "An Ethics of Generosity." In Flashpoints for Asian American Studies, edited by Cathy Schlund-Vials. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017.
- “Race and Ethnicity.” In A Companion to Cultural and Critical Theory, edited by Imre Szeman, Sarah Blacker, and Justin Sully. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.
- "Neoliberalism and New Materialism." In Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture, edited by Mitchum Huehls and Rachel Greenwald Smith. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.