 Assistant Professor of EnglishOffice: Cottage 211 Telephone: 303-735-1745 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
“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, forthcoming
“Sterling A. Brown,” “Aiiieeeee!” “Louis Chu,” “Eat a Bowl of Tea,” “America is in the Heart,” and “Carlos Bulosan.” Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature, forthcoming
“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
“Aunt Sue’s Children: Reviewing the Gender(ed) Politics of Richard Wright’s Radicalism.” American Literature 75 (2003): 395-425
Selected honors and awards
IMPART Award, CU Boulder, 2004Junior Faculty Development Award, CU Boulder, 2004
Five College Fellowship for Minority Scholars, 2001-02
Current projects
Reading between the Color Lines: Race, Gender, and the Literary Left, 1935-1970 (book)