 Assistant Professor of EnglishOffice: Denison 133 Telephone: 303-735-5686 E-mail: Cheryl.Higashida@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
African-American literature; Asian-American literature; U.S. literature after 1865; cultural studies; Marxism
Education
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2003
M.A., Cornell University, 1998
B.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1994
Publications
Essays
"To Be(come) Young, Gay, and Black: Lorraine Hansberry’s Existentialist Routes to Anticolonialism.” American Quarterly (Winter 2008): 899-924.
“More Than a ‘Special Issue’: Black and Asian Collaborations in U.S. Literature and Publishing.” Afro/Asia: Revolutionary Connections in African-American and Asian-American Politics and Culture, ed. Fred Ho and Bill Mullen. Duke Univ. Press, forthcoming 2008
“Sterling A. Brown,” “Aiiieeeee!” “Louis Chu,” “Eat a Bowl of Tea,” “America is in the Heart,” and “Carlos Bulosan.” Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature, 2005
“Re-Signed Subjects: Women, Work and World in the Fiction of Hisaye Yamamoto and Carlos Bulosan.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 37 (2004): 35-59. Reprinted in Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits, ed. Shirley Geok-lin Lim, et al. Temple Univ. Press, 2006, 29-54
“Aunt Sue’s Children: Reviewing the Gender(ed) Politics of Richard Wright’s Radicalism.” American Literature 75 (2003): 395-425
Selected honors and awards
Kayden Research Grant, CU Boulder, 2009
Council on Reseach and Creative Work Grant-in-Aid, CU Boulder, 2007
IMPART Award, CU Boulder, 2004
Junior Faculty Development Award, CU Boulder, 2004
Five College Fellowship for Minority Scholars, 2001-2002
Current projects
Beyond the Color Curtain: African-American Women Writers and the Anti-Imperialist Black Left, 1955-2002 (book)