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Belinda Kong

Assistant Professor

Spring 2007

  • Writing China from Afar (ASIAN 212)
  • Asian Diaspora: War and Displacement (ASIAN 317)

Phone (207) 798-4316
Title Assistant Professor
Department ENGLISH
2nd Title Assistant Professor
2nd Department ASIAN STUDIES
Work Location 207 Massachusetts Hall
E-Mail bkong@bowdoin.edu
 

Education:

Ph.D. in English Language and Literature,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2005
M.A. in English Language and Literature,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1999
B.A. in English and Philosophy,
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 1998

Teaching Areas

Asian-American and Asian diaspora literature, global transformations of Chinese literary tropes, comparative minority literatures of the U.S.

Research Interests

Themes of displacement, issues of translation, and theories of the human.

Selected Publications

"Traveling Man, Traveling Culture: Death of a Salesman and Post-Mao Chinese Theater." In Arthur Miller's Global Theater: How an American Playwright's Work Is Staged Around the World. Ed. Enoch Brater, University of Michigan Press (forthcoming in 2007)

Conferences

2007
"Ghosts and Doubles: The Asian-American Hyphen Goes Gothic" National Popular & American Culture Associations (PCA/ACA) Joint Conference Boston, Massachusetts. April.

"Writing the Trauma of the Other in Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life" Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Convention Baltimore, Maryland. March.

2004
"The Two Gaos: Exile, Recognition, and the Manufacture of Literary Identity."
At the Edge: Margins, Frontiers, Initiatives in Literature and Culture.
International Comparative Literature Association 17th Congress.
Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China.

"The Ecstasy of Diasporic Homecomings."
Imagining Diasporas: Space, Identity and Social Change Conference.
University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

2003
"Ha Jin and the Gradient of Difference."
The University: 45th Annual Midwest Modern Language Association Convention.
Chicago, Illinois.

2002
"Traveling Man, Traveling Culture: Arthur Miller and Death of a Salesman in Beijing."
Caribbean Crossings: American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference.
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico.