People
Faculty
Yu-Fang Cho
Titles
- Assistant Professor of English and Women’s Studies
Education
- Ph.D. in Literatures in English, Literature Department, University of California at San Diego, September 2004
- M.A. in English, Department of English, University of Wisconsin at Madison
- B.A. With Distinction in Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Teaching and Research Interests
- Comparative study of nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century U.S. literatures and cultures
- Contemporary U.S. multi-ethnic literatures
- Gender and sexuality studies
- Critical race theories
- Feminist legal theories
- Labor history and globalization
- Post-colonial theories
- Diaspora studies
Selected Publications
- “Domesticating the Aliens Within: Sentimental Benevolence in Late Nineteenth-Century California Magazines.” American Quarterly 61.3 (March 2009): 113-136.
- “‘Yellow Slavery,’ Narratives of Rescue, and Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton’s ‘Lin John’ (1899).” Journal of Asian American Studies 12.1 (April 2009): 35-63.
- “Vision of Pacific Destiny: Imperial Geographies in the Overland Monthly, 1898-1900.” Forthcoming in U.S. Popular Print Culture, 1860-1920 (Oxford History of Popular Print Culture Series), ed. Christine Bold. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009.
- “A Romance of (Miscege)Nations: Ann Sophia Stephens’s Malaeska and the 1830 Indian Removal Act.” Arizona Quarterly 63.1 (Spring 2007): 1-25.
- “Rewriting Exile, Remembering Home, Remapping Empire: Hualing Nieh’s Mulberry and Peach.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. 5.1 (Fall 2004): 157-200.
Grants & Awards
- Summer Research Appointment, Miami University of Ohio, Summer 2007
- Assigned Research Appointment, Miami University of Ohio, Spring 2007
- 2007 NEH Summer Stipends, Miami University Junior Faculty Nominee
- Honors Program Summer Fellowship, Miami University, Summer 2006
- College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Effective Grant (collaboration with Madelyn Detloff and Ann Feurer), Miami University, 2006-2007
- Center for Writing Excellence Faculty Grant, Miami University, 2006-2007
- Summer Credit Workshop Incentive Grant, Office of Continuing Education, Miami University, 2005-2006, 2006-2007
- Summer Research Appointment, Miami University, Summer 2005
- Mayers Fellow, Huntington Library, 2004-2005
- Pacific Rim Research Program Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, 2003-2004
- Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, San Diego, 2003-2004
- Faculty Fellowship, Women’s Studies Program, University of California, Irvine, 2003-2004 (declined)
- Faculty Fellowship, English Department, University of California, Riverside, 2003-2004 (declined)
- Bancroft Library Study Award (Kenneth E. and Dorothy V. Hill Fellowship), University of California, Berkeley, 2002-2003
- Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, 2002-2003
- James D. Kline Award for International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002-2003
- Teaching Excellence Award, Muir College Writing Program, University of California, San Diego, 2000-2001
Work in Progress
Professor Cho’s completed book manuscript, Reconceiving Labor: Race and Deviant Intimacies in Cultures of the U.S. Empire, 1890-1910, traces the emergence of the ideological construct of white heteronormativity as the U.S. became a hemispheric and trans-Pacific empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book analyzes the interplay between the legal constitution of the white couple form as the “universal” sexual norm (through stigmatizing the sexual practices of people who performed devalued labor) and cultural representations that negotiate and contest the power of this norm, or what might be called “official heteronormativity.” Linking these legal and cultural discourses to U.S. capitalist and imperial expansion, this book argues that the workings of this “official heteronormativity” during this period were crucial to the regulation of devalued labor that was set apart from the “free wage labor” embodied by white workingmen, including slavery, prostitution, and Chinese immigrant labor.