Asian American Studies, University of Illinois

SUSAN KOSHY
Associate Professor, English and Asian American Studies
208 English Bldg.
608 S Wright St
University of Illinois
Urbana , IL 61801
(217) 244-7328
skoshy@uiuc.edu

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Rethinking Diaspora Studies: Globalization and Multi-Locality, ed. Susan Koshy and R. Radhakrishnan, (forthcoming).

Sexual Naturalization: Asian Americans and Miscegenation (Stanford University Press, 2004).

Articles

“Morphing Race into Ethnicity: Asian Americans and Critical Transformations of Whiteness.” Boundary 2 28 (Spring 2001): 153-94.

“South Asians and the U.S. Census: Rethinking the Subject of Civil Rights,” Asian Pacific American History Collective Website.

“American Nationhood as Eugenic Romance: D. W. Griffith’s Broken Blossoms.” Differences (Spring 2001): 50-78.

“American Dreams.” SAMAR Journal (2000): 21.

“From Cold War to Trade War: Neocolonialism and Human Rights.” Social Text 58 (1999): 1-32.

“Category Crisis: South Asian Americans and Questions of Race and Ethnicity.” Diaspora 7.3 (1998): 285-320.

“Turning Color: A Conversation with British Asian filmmaker Gurinder Chadha.” Transition 72 (Winter 1996): 148-61.

“The Fiction of Asian American Literature.” Yale Journal of Criticism 9 (Fall 1996): 35-65.

“The Geography of Female Subjectivity: Ethnicity, Gender, and Diaspora in Mukherjee’s Fiction.” Diaspora 3 (1994): 69-84.

Book Chapters

“The Postmodern Subaltern: Globalization Theory and the Subject of Ethnic, Area, and Postcolonial Studies,” in Minor Transnationalism, ed. Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih ( Durham : Duke University Press, 2005), pp. 109-31.

“The Campaign for Fair Trials Abroad: Long-Distance Nationalism and Post-Imperial Anxiety,” in Just Advocacy: Human Rights, Transnational Feminism, and the Politics of Representation,” ed. Wendy Sue Hesford and Wendy Kozol ( Rutgers University Press, 2005).

“Jim Crow and the Delta Lotus: Racial Strategies of the Mississippi Chinese,” in Regarding the Other, ed. Ada Savin ( Amsterdam University Press, 2005). [An earlier version of this essay appeared in Boundary 2].

“Asian American Women’s Autobiography,” in Dictionary of Women’s Autobiography, ed. Victoria Boynton and Jo Malin (Westview Press, 2005).

“South Asians and the Complex Interstices of Whiteness,” in White Women in Racialized Spaces, ed. Samina Najmi and Rajini Srikanth (SUNY Press, 2002), pp. 29-50. [Reprinted with permission from Diaspora].

“Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine,” in Resource Guide to Asian AmericanLiterature, ed. Stephen Sumida and Sau-ling Cynthia Wong (MLA, 2001), pp. 165-77.

“The Fiction of Asian American Literature,” in An Asian American Studies Reader, ed. Min Song and Jean Yu ( Rutgers UP, 2000). [Reprinted with permission from the Yale Journal of Criticism].

“The Geography of Female Subjectivity: Ethnicity, Gender and Diaspora in Mukherjee’s Fiction,” in Contemporary American Women Writers: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity, ed. Lois P. Zamora (Longman, 1998), pp. 138-53. [Reprinted with permission from Diaspora].

“Mother-Country and Fatherland: Re-Membering the Nation in Sara Suleri’s Meatless Days,” in Interventions: Feminist Dialogues in Third World Women’s Literature and Film, ed. Brinda Bose and Bishnupriya Ghosh, (Garland, 1996), pp. 47-62.

Work in Progress

Globalized Ethnicities (book manuscript)

Book Reviews

Vijay Prashad, The Karma of Brown Folk. American Ethnologist, 29.3 (2002): 728-30.

David Li, Imagining the Nation. Journal of Asian American Studies, 3 (2000): 115-17.

Sheng-mei Ma, Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures. Journal of Asian Studies, 58 (May 1999): 462-4.

Bharati Mukherjee, The Holder of the World. Amerasia 20 (Fall 1994): 88-90.

Works in Progress

Rethinking Diaspora Studies: Multi-Locality and Globalization (co-edited anthology with R. Radhakrishnan)

Globalized Ethnicities (book manuscript)

HONORS AND AWARDS

Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award, 2005, for Sexual Naturalization

UIUC List of Instructors Rated Excellent, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006

UIUC Humanities Release Time Grant, 2006-2007

Center for Democracy in a Multi-Racial Society Fellowship, 2006-2007 (declined)

UCSB Terrific Teachers, 2004

Outstanding Faculty Member, UCSB Office of Residential Life, 1996-97, 1997-98.

Faculty Career Development Award, UCSB, 1996-97, 1998-99, 1999-2000

UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (alternate), 1996-97

Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (nominee), Stanford University, 1996-97

Institute for American Cultures Rockefeller Fellowship (alternate), UCLA, 1995-96

Academic Senate Dissertation Fellowship, UCLA, 1991-92

Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA, 1991-92

Phi Beta Kappa Fellowship, UCLA, 1990-91

American Assoc. of University Women International Fellowship (alternate), 1990-91

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

2004- Associate Professor, English Department, University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign.

2001-2004. Associate Professor, Asian American Studies Department, University of California , Santa Barbara .

1995-2001. Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies Department, University of California , Santa Barbara .

1992-1995. Assistant Professor, English Department, University of Louisville , with affiliation to Women’s Studies Program.

EDUCATION

1992: PhD, English, University of California , Los Angeles

DISSERTATION

“Under Other Skies: Writing Gender, Nation, and Diaspora”

GRANTS

2001

Committee on Research, UCSB ($4,500)

ISBER Grant, UCSB ($1,000)

Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Grant, UCSB ($1,000)

2000

Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Grant, UCSB ($4,500)

Committee on Research, UCSB ($1,875)

ISBER Course Release Grant, UCSB ($5,000)

Committee on Research Grant, UCSB ($3,000)

1998

Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Course Release Grant, UCSB ($4,500)

1997

Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Research Grant, UCSB ($1,100)

1996

Committee on Research Grant, UCSB ($1,300)

1995

Committee on Research Grant, UCSB ($1,320)

1994

Course Development Grant, University of Louisville ($1,000)

1993

Arts and Sciences Research Grant, University of Louisville ($2,500)

LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

Keynote Speaker, Critical US Studies, Duke University , February 23, 2005.

Invited Speaker , University of Pittsburgh, November 3, 2005.

Invited Speaker, Translating America to Itself Conference, UC-Irvine, May 13, 2005

Roundtable Panelist, “Twenty-First Century Bodies,” Interdisciplinary Research Program in the Humanities, University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign, February 14, 2005.

Invited Plenary Speaker , “Racial Exclusion, Sexual Naturalization: Asian Americans and Anti-Miscegenation Law,” Asian Americans and the Law Conference, University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign, February 2, 2005.

“Miscegenation Discourse and Sexual Capital,” Guest Lecture for Prof. Kent Ono’s Class on Mixed Race Identities, Jan 27, 2005.

Roundtable Panelist, Beyond a Boundary: Ethnic, Area, Gender Studies and the New Global Imperative, University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign, December 4, 2004.

Chair and Respondent, Panel on Domestic Internationalism, American Studies Association Annual Conference, Atlanta , Nov 12, 2004 .

Discussant, “Gender and Transnational Care Work,” Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Conference, University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign, October 22, 2004.

“The Minority Report: South Asians and the Normative Subject of Civil Rights,” Annual Center for South Asia Studies Conference, University of Wisconsin , Madison , October 16, 2004 .

Invited Speaker , “New Millenium Multiculturalism: Zadie Smith’s White Teeth,” German American Frontiers of the Humanities Conference, American Philosophical Society and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Philadelphia , October 8, 2004.

“The Impact of the Patriot Act on Immigrant Communities,” Forum on the Patriot Act, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center , UCSB, April 27, 2004 .

Invited Speaker , “South Asians and the U.S. Census: Historiography and the Politics of Representation,” Asian Pacific American History: New Contours Conference, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC , April 17, 2004 .

Chair and Respondent, Panel on “Understanding War,” New Cultures, New Literacies Conference, UCLA, March 13, 2004 .

“Missionary Discourse and the Critique of Imperialism in John Luther Long’s ‘Madame Butterfly’,” UC-Irvine, February 3, 2004 .

“American Orientalism and Missionary Discourse in ‘Madame Butterfly,’”

Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Diego , Dec 28, 2003 .

Invited Speaker , “The Postcolonial Intellectual,” Madras University , India , December 18, 2003 .

“Jim Crow and the Delta Lotus: The Racial Strategies of the Chinese in Mississippi ,”

Regarding the Other Conference, University of Versailles , Paris , Nov 28, 2003 .

Contributor , Sewanee Writer’s Conference, July 15-27, 2003 .

Invited Speaker , English Department Colloquium Series, UC Riverside, May 6, 2003

Invited Speaker , “The Postmodern Subaltern,” Conference on the Indian Diaspora, UCLA, May 2-3.

“Missionary Discourse and the Critique of Imperialism in ‘Madame Butterfly,’” English Department and Asian American Studies Program, University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign, January 23, 2003.

Invited Speaker , “Eugenic Romances of American Nationhood.” University of Alberta , April 5, 2002.

Invited Speaker , “The After-Birth of a Nation: D.W. Griffith’s Broken Blossoms and Racial Reconstructions.” New York University , March 21, 2002

“Cyber-Migrants: South Asian High-Tech Workers in the U.S. ” Modern Language Association, December 28, 2001.

Workshop panelist, “Diasporic Asian American Literature and Curriculum Development.” California State University , Dominguez Hills, December 8, 2001 .

Invited Speaker, “The White Atlantic : Post-Colonial Reinscriptions of Race and Nation.” Mapping Genders and Histories Colloquium, University of California , Santa Cruz , May 4, 2001 .

“Borderless Sex and Global Capitalism.” Minor Transnationalisms Conference, UCLA, May 2, 2001.

“Eugenic Romances of American Nationhood.” Modern Language Association, Washington D.C., December 27, 2000.

Guest lecture, Anthropology 142A, UC-Santa Barbara, November 29, 2000 .

“The Louise Woodward Case: South Asian American Racial Invisibility and Public Silence.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, May 27, 2000.

“Minority Discourse and Postcolonial Reinscriptions.” UC Multicampus Research Group on Transnational and Transcolonial Cultures, UCLA, May 6, 2000.

“The Refurbished American Dream.” Department of Black Studies, UC-Santa Barbara, April 23, 2000.

Chair, “Research, Pedagogy, and Critical Interdisciplinary Paradigms.” 30 Years of Ethnic Studies Research Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, December 3, 1999.

Chair, “Intersecting Gender and Genre.” Women Transforming the Public Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 24, 1999.

“Asian American History, Professionalization and the Academy.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, April 3, 1999.

“The Narrative of South Asian American Exceptionalism.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, April 2, 1999.

“The Narrative of South Asian American Exceptionalism.” Center for South Asian Studies Annual Conference, University of California, Berkeley, February 14, 1999.

Invited Speaker , “The Solicitations of Whiteness.” Department of History Colloquium, UC Los Angeles , November 3, 1998 .

“Category Crisis: South Asian Diasporic Negotiations of Racial Categories.” Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Honolulu, Hawai`i, June 26, 1998.

Invited Speaker , “South Asian Americans and the Politics of Representation.” South Asian Studies Colloquium Series, Stanford University , February 4, 1998 .

Invited Speaker , “Rethinking Asian American Literature.” UC Los Angeles , April 29, 1997 .

“Category Crisis: South Asians and Questions of Race/Ethnicity/Color.” Annual Asian Indian Conference, Rutgers University, April 13, 1997.

“Emerging Universalisms: Neocolonialism and the New World Order.” Diasporic Futures, Global Times and Post-Coloniality Conference, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, England, March 22, 1997.

Invited Speaker , “The Color of Whiteness.” Department of Ethnic Studies and Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, UC San Diego , March 13, 1997 .

“Not Quite, Not-White: South Asian Diasporic Negotiations of Racial Categories.” Annual South Asia Conference, UC Berkeley, February 16, 1997.

Guest lecture, As Am 180, “Representations of Asian Immigrant Women,” November 16, 1995 .

Guest lecture, English 601 “Representation and Difference: Ethnic and Postcolonial Literature.” University of Louisville, November 29, 1994.

“Performing the Nation: Cultural Migrancy and Nationalist Discourse.” Association for Asian American Studies National Conference, University of Michigan , April 27, 1994 .

Chair, “Asian American Narratives.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 24, 1994.

Chair, “Gender and Geography: Immigrant Literatures Metamorphosing.” Division on Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature, Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, December 30, 1993.

Guest lecture, English 601, “Postcolonial Literature: Debates and Issues.” University of Louisville , November 20, 1993.

“The Geography of Female Subjectivity: Ethnicity, Gender and Diaspora in Mukherjee’s Fiction.” American Literature Association Symposium on Women Writers, University of Texas, San Antonio , October 3, 1993.

“Mother-Country and Fatherland: Re-Membering the Nation in Meatless Days.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Indiana University , March 26, 1993 .

“Teaching Asian American Women Writers: Insights and Strategies.” NCTE, Louisville, November 19, 1992.

“New Worlds, Old Fictions: Bharati Mukherjee and the Immigrant Experience.” Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, December 28, 1991.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Miscegenation Discourse and Sexual Capital,” Guest Lecture for Prof. Kent Ono’s Class on Mixed Race Identities, Jan 27, 2005.

Chair and Respondent, Panel on Domestic Internationalism, American Studies Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, Nov 12, 2004.

Discussant, “Gender and Transnational Care Work,” Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Conference, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, October 22, 2004.

“The Minority Report: South Asians and the Normative Subject of Civil Rights,” Annual Center for South Asia Studies Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 16, 2004.

Chair and Respondent, Panel on “Understanding War,” New Cultures, New Literacies Conference, UCLA, March 13, 2004.

“American Orientalism and Missionary Discourse in ‘Madame Butterfly,’” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Diego, Dec 28, 2003.

“Jim Crow and the Delta Lotus: The Racial Strategies of the Chinese in Mississippi,” Regarding the Other Conference, University of Versailles, Paris, Nov 28, 2003.

Contributor, Sewanee Writer’s Conference, July 15-27, 2003.

“Cyber-Migrants: South Asian High-Tech Workers in the U.S. ” Modern Language Association, December 28, 2001.

“Eugenic Romances of American Nationhood.” Modern Language Association, Washington D.C., December 27, 2000.

Guest lecture, “South Asians and Questions of Race and Ethnicity,” Anthropology 142A, UC-Santa Barbara, November 29, 2000.

“The Louise Woodward Case: South Asian American Racial Invisibility and Public Silence.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, May 27, 2000.

“Minority Discourse and Postcolonial Reinscriptions.” UC Multicampus Research Group on Transnational and Transcolonial Cultures, UCLA, May 6, 2000 .