Yu-Fang Cho
Education
- PhD in Literatures in English, Literature Department, University of California at San Diego, 2004
- MA in English, Department of English, University of Wisconsin at Madison
- BA With Distinction in Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Teaching and Research Interests
- Transnational American Studies
- Comparative Ethnic Studies
- Transnational Feminist Studies
- Nineteenth-Century U.S. Print Culture
Selected Publications
Book
- Uncoupling American Empire: Cultural Politics of Deviance and Unequal Difference, 1890-1910 (Albany: SUNY, 2013).
Special Issue of Journal
- The Chinese Factor: Reorienting Global Imaginaries in American Studies, special issue of American Quarterly 69.3 (2017) (co-edited with Chih-ming Wang)
Articles
- “What Gojira/Godzilla Enables Us to Forget and Remember: Nuclearism, Reproduction, and America’s Asia Pacific.” In Racial Ecologies. Eds. LeiLani Nishime and Kim Hester-Williams. Seattle: University of Washington Press, forthcoming, Spring 2018.
- Introduction, "The Chinese Factor and American Studies, Here and Now" (co-authored with Chih-ming Wang), American Quarterly 69.3 (2017): 443-63.
- “Migration, Citizenship, and Sexuality in Asian/America.” In Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies. Ed. Cindy I-Fen Cheng. New York: Routledge, 2017. 289-301.
- “Nuclear Diffusion: Notes Toward Reimagining Transnational Reproductive Justice.” Amerasia Journal: Asian American/Pacific Islander/Transcultural Societies 41.3 (2015): 2-25.
- Our Other Encounters: Mapping Emergent Asian America.” Chung-Wai Literary Monthly 43.1 (2014): 93-120.
- "Reimagining "Tense and Tender Ties" in García's Monkey Hunting." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 14.5 (2012).
- “Vision of Pacific Destiny: Imperial Geographies in the Overland Monthly, 1898-1900.”U.S. Popular Print Culture, 1860-1920 (Oxford History of Popular Print Culture Series), ed. Christine Bold. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012. 519-36.
- “Cultural Nationalism, Orientalism, Imperial Ambivalence: The Colored American Magazine and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins,” Journal of Transnational American Studies 3.2 (October 2011).
- “‘Yellow Slavery,’ Narratives of Rescue, and Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton’s ‘Lin John’ (1899).” Journal of Asian American Studies 12.1 (April 2009): 35-63. Reprinted in Short Story Criticism 157 (2011).
- “Domesticating the Aliens Within: Sentimental Benevolence in Late Nineteenth-Century California Magazines.” American Quarterly 61.1 (March 2009): 113-136
- “A Romance of (Miscege)Nations: Ann Sophia Stephens’s Malaeska and the 1830 Indian Removal Act.” Arizona Quarterly 63.1 (Spring 2007): 1-25.
- “Rewriting Exile, Remembering Home, Remapping Empire: Hualing Nieh’s Mulberry and Peach.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. 5.1 (Fall 2004): 157-200.
Review, Etc.
- Review of Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization edited by Grace Kyungwon Hong and Roderick A. Ferguson and On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility by Ernesto Javier Martínez, National Political Science Review 17.1 (2016): 135-38.
- “Asian American Studies and Globalization,” Asian American Society: An Encyclopedia, ed. Mary Yu Danico. London: Sage, 2014. 84-88.
Grants and Awards
- Visiting Fellowship, Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, 2014
- Global Teaching and Learning Award, Miami University, 2014
- Assigned Research Appointment, Miami University of Ohio, Spring 2007, Spring 2014
- Altman Fellow, Miami University, 2013-14 (declined).
- Altman Faculty Scholar, Miami University Ohio, 2012-13.
- Summer Research Appointment, Miami University of Ohio, Summer 2007, 2012
- 2007 NEH Summer Stipends, Miami University Junior Faculty Nominee
- Honors Program Summer Fellowship, Miami University, Summer 2006
- College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Effective Grant (collaboration with Madelyn Detloff and Ann Feurer), Miami University, 2006-2007
- Center for Writing Excellence Faculty Grant, Miami University, 2006-2007
- Summer Credit Workshop Incentive Grant, Office of Continuing Education, Miami University, 2005-2006, 2006-2007
- Summer Research Appointment, Miami University, Summer 2005
- Mayers Fellow, Huntington Library, 2004-2005
- Pacific Rim Research Program Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, 2003-2004
- Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, San Diego, 2003-2004
- Faculty Fellowship, Women’s Studies Program, University of California, Irvine, 2003-2004 (declined)
- Faculty Fellowship, English Department, University of California, Riverside, 2003-2004 (declined)
- Bancroft Library Study Award (Kenneth E. and Dorothy V. Hill Fellowship), University of California, Berkeley, 2002-2003
- Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, 2002-2003
- James D. Kline Award for International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002-2003
Work in Progress
Nuclear Diffusion: The Futures of Life and Death in America’s Asia Pacific seeks to unravel the entanglements of technologies of life and death in America’s Asia Pacific by tracing the ways in which narratives of technological development both udergird and obscure gendered, racialized, and sexualized conditions of militarization. This project traces the genealogy of transpacific nuclear industry and its attendant developments, including the rise of hightech industry, as the key sites for comprehending how the transpacific military industrial complex has centrally organized neocolonial racial reproduction.