![Dr. Jennifer Ho](/ethnicstudies/sites/default/files/styles/small/public/people/jenniferho_photo_11-2022.jpg?itok=Bv9gmvLf)
Pronouns: she / her / hers
Education
Ph.D., Boston University - English, 2003
M.A., Boston University - English, 1996
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara- English, 1992
Research Interests
Asian American literary and cultural studies, intersectionality, critical race studies, anti-racist theory and praxis, contemporary American multiethnic literature, critical mixed race studies
The daughter of a refugee father from China and an immigrant mother from Jamaica,whose parents themselves were immigrants from Hong Kong,Jennifer Hois thedirector of the Center for Humanities & the ArtsandProfessor of Ethnic Studies, where she teaches courses on Asian American culture and Critical Race Theory. She is past president of the Association for Asian American Studies (2020-2022) and the author of two co-edited essay collections--Teaching Approaches to Asian North American Literature(MLA Press 2022 w/Jenny Wills),Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States(Ohio State University Press 2017 w/Jim Donahue & Shaun Morgan)--and three scholarly monographs,Consumption and IdentityinAsian American Coming-of-Age Novels(Routledge 2005),Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture(Rutgers University Press 2015), which won the South Atlantic Modern Language Association award for best monograph, andUnderstanding Gish Jen(University of South Carolina Press 2015 and 2022 paperback with new introduction).In addition to her academic work, Ho is active in community engagement around issues of race and intersectionality, leading workshops on anti-racism and how to talk about race in our current political climate.You can also follow her on Twitter @drjenho.
Selected Interviews
AMA Journal of Ethics – Ethics Talk: “”(June 2020)
Brown University – Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, “” (January 2018)
Splendid Table “” (March 2015)
WUNC – The State of Things “(January 2014)
Selected Publications
Books
Teaching Approaches to Asian North American Literature(MLA Press 2022) – co-editor along with Jenny Wills
.Edited along with James Donahue (SUNY Potsdam) & Shaun Morgan (Tennessee Wesleyan College). Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2017.
. Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press,2015.
. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2015.
. New York: Routledge Press, 2005.
Selected Articles/Book Chapters
“”Japan Forum. 33:1, 148-159 (2021).
“”Oxford American.Spring 2019. 12-15.
“.”Staging Women’s Lives in Academia, eds. Michelle Masse and Nan Bauer-Maglin. State University of New York Press, 2017. 29-39.
“.”Keywords in Asian American Studies, eds. K. Scott Wong, Linda Vo, andCathy Schlund-Vials.New York: New York University Press, 2015. 125-127.
In-Progress(single author)
“I Am Not My Breast Cancer: Why I Hate Those F* Pink Ribbons and Other Observations on My Post-Cancer Life” (book manuscript/memoir).
“Three Continents, Five Countries, One Family: My Chinese Jamaican Family’s Transnational and Transpacific Story” (book manuscript/family biography).