Sylvia Chong
Associate Professor of English and American Studies, Director of Minor in Asian Pacific American Studies
Office hours: Mondays, Wednesdays 12:00pm-1:00pm | by appointment only | Bryan Hall 108
Degrees
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2004
A.M., Stanford University, 1995
B.A., Swarthmore College, 1994
A.M., Stanford University, 1995
B.A., Swarthmore College, 1994
Books
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The Oriental Obscene: Violence and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era. Duke University Press, 2012.
Edited Volumes
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(Re)Collecting the Vietnam War. Special issue of Asian American Literary Review 6.2 (Fall/Winter 2015). Co-edited with Cathy J. Schlund-Vials.
Refereed Articles
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"Ghosts in Their Shells," in Oxford Philosophical Concepts: Persons, ed. Antonia Lolordo (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2019)
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“The Vietnam War in Film,” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature (Oxford University Press, forthcoming Winter 2019)
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"Vietnam, the Move: Part Deux," in PMLA 133.2 (2018): 371-377
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“Exceptionalism.” In Critical Terms for Southern Studies, ed. Jennifer Greeson and Scott Romine. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016. 304-315.
- “Me No Love You Long Time.” With illustrations by Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis. In (Re)Collecting the Vietnam War, special issue of Asian American Literary Review 6.2 (Fall/Winter 2015): 257-65.
- “The Illusion of a Future: Hopelessness in Contemporary Cinema.” In Hopelessness: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Aspects, ed. Salman Akhtar and Mary Kay O’Neil. London: Karnac Books, 2015. 107-136.
- “Orientalism.” Keywords for Asian American Studies, ed. Cathy Schlund-Vials, Linda Vo, and Kevin Scott Wong. New York: NYU Press, 2015. 182-185.
- “Pornography and its Dis/Contents: A Roundtable Discussion with Anjali Arondekar, Richard Fung, and Sylvia Chong” In Embodying Asian/ American Sexualities, ed. Gina Masequesmay and Sean Metzger (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009): 29-42.
- “‘Look, an Asian!': The Politics of Racial Interpellation in the Wake of the Virginia Tech Shootings." Journal of Asian American Studies 11.1 (February 2008): 27-60.
- “Restaging the Vietnam War: The Deer Hunter and the Primal Scene of Violence.” In Cinema Journal 44.2 (Winter 2005): 89-106.
- “From ‘Blood Auteurism’ to the Violence of Pornography: Sam Peckinpah and Oliver Stone.” In New Hollywood Violence, ed. Steven Jay Schneider (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005): 249-268.
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