Full-Time Faculty
Patricia Chu
Ph.D. in English literature,
Cornell University,1993
M.A. in English literature, Cornell University, 1989
Patricia Pei-chang Chu teaches courses on contemporary
Asian American literature and culture, women’s autobiography,
and contemporary American literature. She is interested in
the ways Asian American writers claim subjectivity and citizenship
through writing. Her current work concerns narratives of “return,” representations
of diasporic subjects’ journeys to their or the ancestors’ Asian
homelands.
Book:
Assimilating Asians: Gendered Strategies
of Authorship in Asian America (Duke University Press,
2000).
Other Publications:
“Asian American Narratives of Return:
Nisei Representations of Prewar and Wartime Japan.” Ethnic
Life Writing and Histories: Critical Intersections, ed.
Rocio G. Davis, Jaume Aurell, and Ana Beatriz Delgado. Muenster,
Germany: LIT-Verlag, forthcoming in 2007.
“’A Flame
Against a Sleeping Lake of Petrol’: Sympathy and the
Expatriate Witness in Selvadurai’s Funny Boy and
Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost.” Literary
Gestures: The Aesthetic in Asian American Literary Discourse. Ed.
Rocio Davis and Sue-Im Lee. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2006.
86-103.
“’To Hide
Her True Self’: Sentimentality and the Search for an
Intersubjective Self in Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort
Woman. ” Asian North American Identities Beyond
the Hyphen. Ed. Eleanor Ty and Donald Goellnicht. Bloomington:
Indiana UP, 2004. 61-83.
“”Is It Okay to Laugh Now? A Response
to ‘Roots and Wings’ and ‘The Future of
Korean American Literature.” One Hundred Years
of Korean Literature, ed. Young-Key Kim-Renaud, R. Richard
Grinker, and Kirk W. Larsen, Sigur Center Asia Papers No.
20. Washington, DC: George Washington University: 2004: 37-43.
Commissioned conference proceedings.
“’The Invisible World the Emigrants
Built’: Cultural Self-Inscription and the Anti-Romantic
Plots of The Woman Warrior.” Diaspora:
A Journal of Transnational Studies 2:1 (Spring 1992):
96-115. www.UTPJournals.com. Electronic reprint from Diaspora.
