Stephen Hong Sohn , Assistant Professor

Primary Office: 460-422
Office Hours: by appointment
Office Phone: 723-3014

At Stanford Since: 2007

Email: ssohn@stanford.edu

Current Year's Courses:

Graphic Novels Asian American Style

Trauma Theory, Psychoanalysis and Asian American Literature

Transnational Asia/Pacific Spatial Geographies

Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Literature

Degrees:

Ph.D. in English, U.C. Santa Barbara, 2006

M.A. in English, U.C. Santa Barbara, 2003

B.A. in Biological Sciences & Creative Writing/English, University of Southern California, 2001

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Stephen Hong Sohn, a former University of California President’s Postdoctoral fellow (2006-2007), has edited or co-edited a number of different works and special issues, including Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits (Temple University Press, 2006); Studies in the Literary Imagination (SLI, Vol. 37.1, Spring 2004) on Asian American Literature; MELUS (Winter 2008) on the topic of "Alien/Asian"; and Modern Fiction Studies on the topic of "Theorizing Asian American Fiction" (2010).  Articles have appeared or are forthcoming in American Quarterly, Cultural CritiqueModern Fiction Studies, Studies in the Literary Imagination, and the Southeast Asian Review of English (SARE).  He was co-chair of The Circle for Asian American Literary Studies (CAALS), a literature society affiliated with the American Literature Association from 2006-2008.  His current research project, Racial Asymmetries, focuses on contemporary Asian American fictional production, social context methodology, and aesthetic practices.  A second book is in its nascent stages, exploring gender and sexuality in Asian American cultural production.