Profile
Professor Chon-Smith’s research and teaching interests include 20th/21st Century American literature & social movements, comparative racialization and cultural production, and structured militarization & narratives of healing. His monograph, East Meets Black: Asian and Black Masculinities in the Post-Civil Rights Era (University Press of Mississippi, 2015), is the first interdisciplinary book on Asian and black masculinities in literature and popular culture. Professor Chon-Smith teaches courses in multiethnic literatures, literary theory, Asian American literature and popular culture, Afro-Asian imagination, and race & modernity.
