Susan Thananopavarn
Lecturing Fellow of Thompson Writing Program
Overview
I am interested in contemporary American literature, ethnic studies, Asian American studies, and Latina/o studies. My book, LatinAsian Cartographies: History, Writing, and the National Imaginary (Rutgers UP, 2018), examines how Asian American and Latina/o literature can rewrite dominant narratives of U.S. history. My next project will explore what I call “ethnofuturism,” or alternative speculative fiction by writers of color. Other areas of interest include the medical humanities, women’s and gender studies, and literature and the environment.
Thananopavarn, Susan. LatinAsian Cartographies History, Writing, and the National Imaginary. Rutgers University Press, 2018.
Thananopavarn, Susan. “Negotiating Asian American Childhood in the Twenty-First Century: Grace Lin's Year of the Dog, Year of the Rat, and Dumpling Days.” Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 38, no. 1, Jan. 2014, pp. 106–22. Mla, doi:10.1353/uni.2014.0008. Full Text
Thananopavarn, S. “Conscientización of the Oppressed: Language and the Politics of Humor in Ana Castillo's So Far from God.” Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, vol. Number 1, no. Spring 2012, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, Apr. 2012, pp. 65–86.
Thananopavarn, Susan. “Driven Out: The Forgotten War against Chinese Americans.” Journal of Contemporary Asia, vol. 39, no. 4, ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, Jan. 2009, pp. 699–701.
Thananopavarn, Susan. “Intersections of Latina/o and Asian American Literature.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture.