People
ProfessorsMark Chiang |
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601 South Morgan Street (MC 162) |
Assistant Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies |
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Asian American literature
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Mark Chiang's teaching and research focus primarily upon Asian American literature and culture. He is currently working on a book that examines the politics of representation in Asian American Studies from a sociologically oriented perspective. Entitled Representing Asian America: Institutionalization and Minority Cultural Politics, the book attends specifically to the institutional locations of Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies in order to explore how these fields are absorbed into the structure of the American educational institution. At UIC, Chiang is actively involved in the efforts to start an Asian American Resource and Cultural Center and an Asian American Studies Program. As a corollary of these initiatives, he has helped the English Department to create its first Asian American Literature courses, which he looks forward to teaching as soon as they are approved. In the meantime, he teaches courses on multiethnic American literature and on representations of race in American film and literature. He also teaches graduate courses in Asian American literary studies.