Susan Thananopavarn

Susan Thananopavarn

Lecturing Fellow of Thompson Writing Program

External Address: 
Box 90025, Durham, NC 27708
Email: 
susan.than@duke.edu

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.

Education & Training

  • Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2015

  • M.A., University of California at Berkeley 1998

  • B.A., Princeton University 1996

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.” The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 38, no. 1, Project Muse, 2014, pp. 106–22. Crossref, 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.