Jennifer泭Ho

  • Professor
  • Director, Center for Humanities and the Arts
  • ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
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Pronouns: she / her / hers

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Education

Ph.D., Boston University - English, 2003
M.A., Boston University - English, 1996
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara泭- English, 1992

Research Interests

Asian American literary and cultural studies, intersectionality, critical race studies, anti-racist theory and praxis, contemporary American multiethnic literature, critical mixed race studies

The daughter of a refugee father from China and an immigrant mother from Jamaica, whose parents themselves were immigrants from Hong Kong, Jennifer Ho is the director of the Center for Humanities & the Arts at the 做厙輦⑹, where she specializes in Asian American literary and cultural studies and Critical Race Theory. She is past president of the Association for Asian American Studies (2020-2022), the editor of four essay collections, most recently Global Anti-Asian Racism (Columbia UP 2024), the author of three scholarly monographs, including Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture (Rutgers UP 2015), which won the best monograph award from the South Atlantic Modern Language Association in 2017, and a number of essays and articles, both research oriented and public facing (a sampling of which is also on this webpage). In addition to her academic work, Ho is active in community engagement around issues of race and intersectionality.

Selected Interviews

KBLA 1580 am Talk Radio. (May 2023).

, Asian America: the Ken Fong Podcast, (January 2023).

, Its Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, NPR. (March 2021).

AMA Journal of Ethics Ethics Talk: 泭(June 2020).

Brown University Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, (January 2018).

Splendid Table (March 2015).

WUNC The State of Things 泭(January 2014).

Selected Publications

Books

. Editor. Columbia University Press, 2024.

. Co-editor with Jenny Wills (University of Winnipeg). Modern Language Association Press, 2022.

.泭Edited along with James Donahue (SUNY Potsdam) & Shaun Morgan (Tennessee Wesleyan College). Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2017.

. Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press,泭2015.

. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2015.

. New York: Routledge Press, 2005.

Articles/Book Chapters

The Necessity of Racial Literacy in a Mixed Race America, essay for , eds. Cristina Stanciu and Gary Totten (University of Illinois 2024) 15-31.

How to Center Anti-Racism and Intersectionality in Public Humanities Work, , eds. Daniel Fisher-Livine and Michelle May-Curry (Routledge 2024), 254-266.

The State of Mixed Race Asian American Literature. (1995-present), eds. Betsy Huang and Victor Mendoza. Cambridge University Press, 2021, 294-310.

泭Japan Forum. 泭33:1, 148-159 (2021).

泭Oxford American.泭Spring 2019. 12-15.泭

The Accidental Academic or How to Succeed in Academia through Failure and Doubt.泭Staging Womens Lives in Academia, eds. Michelle Masse and Nan Bauer-Maglin. State University of New York Press, 2017. 29-39.

.泭Keywords in Asian American Studies, eds. K. Scott Wong, Linda Vo, and泭Cathy Schlund-Vials.泭泭New York: New York University Press, 2015. 125-127.

In-Progress泭(single author)

I Am Not My Breast Cancer: Why I Hate Those F****** Pink Ribbons and Other Observations on My Post-Cancer Life (book manuscript/memoir).

Three Continents, Five Countries, One Family: My Chinese Jamaican Familys Transnational and Transpacific Story (book manuscript/family biography).

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