AAST Welcomes Dr. Jennifer Cho as Program's Second Teaching Faculty

AAST was given the position of a second teaching faculty and is excited to welcome Dr. Jennifer Cho to the program! This is the first addition to AAST’s full-time dedicated faculty since the program started in 2000.

Jennifer Cho comes to UMD from Boston University, where she was Visiting Assistant Professor of English and taught courses in Asian American literature and film, contemporary fiction, and gender studies. Her teaching interests align closely with her interdisciplinary research, which spans Asian American literary and cultural production, gender and sexuality studies, women of color feminisms, histories of (neo)colonialism in Asia, theories of trauma and affect, and foodways (a nod to her former career as a chef). Currently, Jennifer is completing a book that rescripts expressions of grief and racial melancholy as potent, decolonizing responses to Asian American identity formation and cultural memory. Her work has been published (or is forthcoming) in MELUS, Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, Modern Language Studies and the Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice.

During the Fall 2022 semester, Dr. Cho will be teaching three courses: Intro to Asian American Studies, Asian Americans in Film, and Asian American Women and Gender.

You can reach Dr. Cho at jencho@umd.edu.