Susan Thananopavarn, Lecturing Fellow of Thompson Writing Program

Please note: Susan has left the "Asian American Studies Program" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

I am interested in contemporary American literature, ethnic studies, and Asian American studies.  My book, LatinAsian Cartographies: History, Writing, and the National Imaginary (Rutgers UP, 2018), examines how Asian American and Latina/o literary texts can rewrite dominant narratives of U.S. history.  I teach Writing 101 courses in Asian American studies; “ethnofuturism,” or alternative speculative fiction by writers of color; and exploring human connection in the digital age.  Beginning in 2023, I will also teach a course in Asian American literature for Duke's program in Asian American and Diaspora Studies.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	Box 90025, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	(919) 660-4368
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• WRITING 101.35, ACADEMIC WRITING Synopsis

  Art 116, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

• WRITING 101.36, ACADEMIC WRITING Synopsis

  Branson 202, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

• AADS 336S.01, ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE Synopsis

  Class Bldg 106, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

  (also cross-listed as AMES 332S.01, ENGLISH 352S.01, LIT 353S.01)

• HOUSECS 59.22, HOUSE COURSE (SP TOP) Synopsis

  Perkins 065, M 07:00 PM-08:30 PM

• WRITING 101.42, ACADEMIC WRITING Synopsis

  White Hall 106, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• WRITING 101.43, ACADEMIC WRITING Synopsis

  Branson 202, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

• WRITING 101.44, ACADEMIC WRITING Synopsis

  White Hall 106, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

Education:

Ph.D.	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	2015
M.A.	University of California, Berkeley	1998
B.A.	Princeton University	1996

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Thananopavarn, S, Digging Up the Past: Randall Kenan’s Let the Dead Bury Their Dead and the Suppressed Histories of the U.S. South, in Swamp Souths Literary and Cultural Ecologies (March, 2020), LSU Press, ISBN 9780807173510  [abs]
2. Thananopavarn, S, LatinAsian Cartographies: History, Writing, and the National Imaginary (Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States) (January, 2018), pp. 216 pages, Rutgers University Press, ISBN 0813589843  [abs]
3. Thananopavarn, S, LatinAsian Cartographies: History, Writing, and the National Imaginary (2018), pp. 216-216, Rutgers University Press, ISBN 9780813589848  [abs]
4. Thananopavarn, S, Negotiating Asian American Childhood in the Twenty-First Century: Grace Lin's Year of the Dog, Year of the Rat, and Dumpling Days, The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children's Literature, vol. 38 no. 1 (January, 2014), pp. 106-122, Johns Hopkins University Press [doi]
5. Thananopavarn, S, Conscientización of the Oppressed: Language and the Politics of Humor in Ana Castillo's So Far from God, Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, vol. Number 1 no. Spring 2012 (April, 2012), pp. 65-86, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center  [abs]