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Invasion Nation (Example Literature Course Syllabus)

Since I’m feeling far too lazy to write a whole new post, I thought I would share a course that I had to design for one of my classes the past semester. It was a fun project and the first time I was asked to create my own syllabus, course materials, and a week’s worthContinue reading “Invasion Nation (Example Literature Course Syllabus)”

#Blackouttuesday and Reading Recommendations

Reading about things is probably not the most active way to help the current situation, but I believe that it’s still important (along with other ways to contribute, including through methods compiled in this link: blacklivesmatters.carrd.co). Reading recommendations below are completely arbitrary based on my own limited bookshelf/knowledge but could be worthwhile summer reads: 1)Continue reading “#Blackouttuesday and Reading Recommendations”

5 Minute Writing Prompt Ideas

Teaching a first-year writing course—with an emphasis on rhetoric—the majority of my students were non-English majors (in fact, I didn’t have a single English or humanities major across the two sections I taught in the past year, each comprised of 24 students. Most were engineering or business students. I know STEM fields are popularContinue reading “5 Minute Writing Prompt Ideas”

Thoughts at the End of My MA

It’s been almost a year since I posted and a lot of things have happened (including a global and ongoing pandemic!). I finished my second year in graduate school, which means that I officially obtained my MA in English (I’m in a six-year MA-PhD conjoint program, so I will officially begin the PhD portion thisContinue reading “Thoughts at the End of My MA”

READ! Disappearing Mothers in Lisa Ko’s The Leavers and Shin Kyung-Sook’s Please Look After Mom

Hello, I’m back after another long absence! Despite it being summer break, I haven’t made posts any more frequently than during the school semester (to be fair, I just survived taking summer Chinese language classes—don’t think it will actually help me in my research, but it was actually a lot of fun!). I want toContinue reading “READ! Disappearing Mothers in Lisa Ko’s The Leavers and Shin Kyung-Sook’s Please Look After Mom”

READ! The Sellout by Paul Beatty

I survived my first year of graduate school! It’s been about two weeks since I finished the semester, which I’ve been thoroughly enjoying after months of self-doubt, crying, and worrying about final papers. I went back to visit NYC (it’s been exactly a year since I graduated from NYU, and it was strange toContinue reading “READ! The Sellout by Paul Beatty”

The Book History of East Goes West: The Makings of an Oriental Yankee

I already did a blog post a few months ago about how much I enjoyed Younghill Kang’s East Goes West: The Makings of an Oriental Yankee, but I thought I would share information about its book history. I wrote this as an assignment last semester and since all the grading is finished for that class IContinue reading “The Book History of East Goes West: The Makings of an Oriental Yankee”

Asian Freaks in Nineteenth Century American Freak Shows

It seems my New Year’s resolution to write blog posts more often has been quite quickly abandoned (but is it really a New Year’s resolution if you don’t actually fail to follow through, and realize there is no magical self-motivation that appears with the change of a number on a calendar?) I’m already well intoContinue reading “Asian Freaks in Nineteenth Century American Freak Shows”

Thoughts on End of the First Semester

Hello, nonexistent readers! I’m returning with a long-delayed post now that I’m on break. This means I finished my first semester in graduate school, with feelings of relief and lingering anxiety. I didn’t do quite as many blog posts throughout the semester as I had intended, but as the year reaches its end perhaps IContinue reading “Thoughts on End of the First Semester”

READ! X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent

So far, my resolve to make one post a week is not going well. I’ve been reading a lot of amazing things and producing writing for classes, but man is grad school (or maybe it’s a life thing) tiring! I read Scott Lyons’ X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent a few weeks ago, and I was justContinue reading “READ! X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent”