Jennifer Ann Ho

Jennifer Ann Ho Curren Address: University of North Carolina, 202 High Street Chapel Hill Carrboro, NC 27510 Department of English and [email protected] Comparative Literature (919) 923-4306 Greenlaw Hall, C.B. #3520 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520 (919) 962-8478

Academic Positions July 2005-present. Assistant Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Research and teaching specialization: Asian American literature and culture, multiethnic American literature, contemporary American literature, race and ethnicity theory.

July 2006-present. Adjunct faculty, Department of American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Research and teaching specialization: Asian American culture, race and ethnicity theory.

Education Ph.D., Jan. 2003 English Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

M.A., May 1996 English Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

B.A., June 1992 English University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California

Awards Spring 2010, Distinguished Publication by an Assistant Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Spring 2008, Institute for Arts and Humanities Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

2007-2008, Junior Faculty Achievement Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Publications Book Consumption and Identity in Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels. New York: Routledge Press, 2005.

Article s “The Place of Transgressive Texts in Asian American Epistemology.” Modern Fiction Studies. (Spring 2010) 205-225.

“Letter from an American Professor: An Asian American Education in the South.” The Global South (Fall 2009) 14-31.

“A Tale of Two Courses: Conflict and Community in the Asian American Classroom.” Journal of Asian American Studies (June 2006) 190-194.

“Ambiguous Movements: Paisley Rekdal’s Passing Identity in The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In.” Women and Performance Journal (Winter 2005) 141-165.

“When the Political is Personal: Life on the Multi-Ethnic Margins.” Race in the Classroom, eds. Maureen Reddy and Bonnie TuSmith. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2002. 62-70. Accepted but Unpublished “Being Held Accountable.” The Journal of Women’s History, v. 22, no. 4 (forthcoming Winter 2010).

“Southern Eruptions in Asian American Narratives.” Asian Americans in the New South, eds. Jigna Desai and Khyati Joshi. University of Georgia Press. (forthcoming Winter 2010).

Invited Guest Lectures “Hybrid Realities, Multiracial Identities, and Fusion Food: Eating Across Ethnicities in Contemporary Asian American Literature,” Asian American Studies Institute Speaker Series. University of Connecticut at Storrs, Storrs, CT, April 19, 2010.

“Ambiguous Americans: Race and the State of Asian America,” 16th Biennial Midwest Asian American Student Conference. Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, March 6, 2010.

“From Enemy Alien to Assimilating American: Yoshiko deLeon and the Mixed Marriage Policy of the Japanese American Internment,” Mixed Race in the Age of Obama Conference, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, March 5, 2010.

Conference Presentations Conference co-chair, “Consuming Asian America,” Association for Asian American Studies Conference, New Orleans, LA, May 18-21.

“The Place of Transgressive Texts in Asian American Epistemology,” Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Austin, TX, April 7-12, 2010.

“Improbable Southerners: Asian Americans in the South,” (roundtable) Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Austin, TX, April 7-12, 2010.

“Looking for Justice (or Maybe Just Karma) in the Environment of Don Lee’s Wrack and Ruin,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, June 3-6, 2009.

Conference co-organizer, “EOC Junior Faculty Retreat,” (faculty retreat/working group) Columbia University, New York, NY, May 29-30, 2009.

Conference co-organizer, “A Movement to Look Back To,” East of California Conference, Storrs, CT, October 31-November 1, 2008.

Co-chair/discussant, “Marketing Asian American Literature,” (roundtable) American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, May 22-25, 2008.

University Service Member, Academic Advisory Committee for the Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009- 2012.

Speaker, “Navigating an Academic Career as a Scholar of Color,” REM McNair Scholar Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, February 17, 2010.

Panelist, “Publishing in Academia,” Royster Society Fellows luncheon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , February 16, 2010.

Member, Provost’s Task force for Undergraduate Excellence, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008-2009. Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006-2007 & 2008-2009.