Dr. Jennifer Ho
Professor • Director, Center for Humanities and the Arts
Asian American Studies
jennifer.ho@colorado.edu

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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听- 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,听whose parents themselves were immigrants from Hong Kong,听Jennifer Ho听is the听director of the Center for Humanities & the Arts听and听Professor of Ethnic Studies, where she teaches courses on Asian American culture and Critical Race Theory. She is past president of the Association for Asian American Studies (2020-2022) and the author of two co-edited essay collections--Teaching Approaches to Asian North American Literature听(MLA Press 2022 w/Jenny Wills),听Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States听(Ohio State University Press 2017 w/Jim Donahue & Shaun Morgan)--and three scholarly monographs,听Consumption and Identity听in听Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels听(Routledge 2005),听Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture听(Rutgers University Press 2015), which won the South Atlantic Modern Language Association award for best monograph, and听Understanding Gish Jen听(University of South Carolina Press 2015 and 2022 paperback with new introduction).听In addition to her academic work, Ho is active in community engagement around issues of race and intersectionality, leading workshops on anti-racism and how to talk about race in our current political climate.听You can also follow her on Twitter @drjenho.

Selected Interviews

AMA Journal of Ethics 鈥� Ethics Talk: 鈥溾�澨�(June 2020)

Brown University 鈥� Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, 鈥溾�� (January 2018)

Splendid Table 鈥溾�� (March 2015)

WUNC 鈥� The State of Things 鈥�(January 2014)

Selected Publications

Books

Teaching Approaches to Asian North American Literature听(MLA Press 2022) 鈥� co-editor along with Jenny Wills

.听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,听2015.

. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2015.

. New York: Routledge Press, 2005.

Selected Articles/Book Chapters

鈥溾�澨�Japan Forum. 听33:1, 148-159 (2021).

鈥溾�澨�Oxford American.听Spring 2019. 12-15.听

鈥�.鈥澨�Staging Women鈥檚 Lives in Academia, eds. Michelle Masse and Nan Bauer-Maglin. State University of New York Press, 2017. 29-39.

鈥�.鈥澨�Keywords in Asian American Studies, eds. K. Scott Wong, Linda Vo, and听Cathy Schlund-Vials.听听New York: New York University Press, 2015. 125-127.

In-Progress听(single author)

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

鈥淭hree Continents, Five Countries, One Family: My Chinese Jamaican Family鈥檚 Transnational and Transpacific Story鈥� (book manuscript/family biography).

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