Belinda Kong

Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and English

Spring 2008

  • Asian-American Female Gothic (ASIAN 210)
  • Writing China from Afar (ASIAN 212)
  • Intermediate Independent Study in English (ENG 292)
  • Advanced Independent Study and Honors in English (ENG 402)
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 diaspora literature; Asian American literature; literature of the Chinese diaspora; multiethnic U.S. literature

Research Interests

The Chinese diaspora; contemporary Asian diaspora fiction; theories of translation, race, displacement, and the human

Selected Publications

"When Ghosts Dream: Immigrant Desire in Lan Samantha Chang's Hunger"
In Corpses, Ghosts, and the Reanimated Dead: Twentieth-Century American Texts and Performances Ed. Lisa Perdigao and Mark Pizzato, Ashgate Press (forthcoming in 2008)

"Monkey Remnants: Paternality, Ancestry, and Chineseness in Patricia Chao's The Monkey King"
In Myth, Femininity, and Violence: Appropriations of Ancient Myths in Twentieth Century and Contemporary Women's Aesthetic Production Ed. Julie Rajan and Sanja Bahun-Radunovic (forthcoming in 2008)

"The Asian-American Hyphen Goes Gothic: Ghosts and Doubles in Maxine Hong Kingston and lê thi diem thúy" In Asian Gothic: A Critical Reader Ed. Andrew Ng, McFarland Press (forthcoming in 2008)

"Traveling Man, Traveling Culture: Death of a Salesman & 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, 2007

Conferences

2007
"The Afterlife of Polis: Walter Benjamin and the Chinese Diaspora"
Logics of the Living Conference
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

"Asian American Afterlife: Theorizing the Ethics of Diasporic Writing"
American Literature Association (ALA) 18th Annual Conference Boston, Massachusetts

"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.