Donna TongAssociate Professor
American literature and culture、Asian American literature and studies、Gender studies
Donna T. Tong received her PhD in English from the University of California, Irvine, where she wrote her dissertation on Asian American literature examining the intersection of linguistic hierarchies with racial hegemony as represented and refracted in selected works of both prose and poetry. Her interests are primarily in ethnic literatures with a focus on critical race theory, gender studies, and trauma theory, from Li-Young Lee’s poetry as minor literature to posthuman technologies and trauma in Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell films. Her up-coming project is a study of Hawaiian Creole English writings (or colloquially known as “pidgin”) within the context of Asian American studies and Asian settler colonialism.
Education
University of California, Irvine Department of English Ph.D. in English, Feminist Graduate Emphasis, Emphasis in Asian American Studies
University of California, Irvine English Department MA in English
University of California, Los Angeles English Department BA in English, American Literature Concentration, Specialization in Asian American Studies
Experience
Fu Jen Catholic University Department of English Language and Literature Associate Professor
Fu Jen Catholic University English Department Assistant Professor
California State University, Fullerton Department of Asian American Studies Lecturer
University of California, Irvine English Department Teaching Assistant
Fields of Specialty
American literature and culture, Asian American literature and studies, Gender studies