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
- “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.
- “Domesticating the Aliens within: ‘Yellow Slavery,’ Citizenship, and U.S. Cultures of Benevolence in Short Stories about Chinese Immigrant Women in California Magazines, 1890s–1900s,” forthcoming in American Quarterly, 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
- P. E. O. International Peace Scholarship, 1999-2001
- Rotary Foundation Multi-Year Ambassadorial Scholarship, 1996-1998
- Honorary Member, Phi Tau Phi Honorary Scholastic Society, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1996.
Work in Progress
Professor Cho’s current book project, Narratives of Coupling in the Shadow of Manifest Domesticity: Women’s Rights, Racialized Labor, and the Transnational Politics of U.S. Cultures of Benevolence, 1890s–1910s, examines the ways in which marriage functions as an institution that regulates social relations in late nineteenth–century U.S. national and imperial cultures of women’s reform. Tracing the tension between marriage and slavery in political treatises, fictional narratives, and journalistic accounts, this dissertation investigates the connections among women’s rights discourses, the rhetoric of women’s benevolent work, changing social relations in the postbellum market, and U.S. expansion into the Asia Pacific.