Cathy Schlund-Vials

Cathy Schlund-Vials

Associate Professor of English and Asian and Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut

Cathy J. Schlund-Vials is Professor of English and Asian/Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut.  She is also the director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute (UConn). She is the author of two monographs: Modeling Citizenship: Naturalization in Jewish and Asian American Writing (Temple University Press, 2011) and War, Genocide, and Justice:  Cambodian American Memory Work (University of Minnesota Press, 2012). In addition to book chapters in multiple collections, Professor. Schlund-Vials has published and forthcoming essays in Life Writing, Journal of Asian American Studies, MELUS, Modern Language Studies, Amerasia, American Literary History, and positions. Professor Schlund-Vials was the 2011 recipient of the Association for American University Professors “Teaching Promise” Award and the 2013 “Early Career Award” from the Association for Asian American Studies.  She was recently named a series editor (with Linda Trinh Vo and K. Scott Wong) for Temple University Press’s Asian American History and Culture initiative and is presently the President-Elect for the Association for Asian American Studies. Professor Schlund-Vials has co-edited three collections that are forthcoming or in press:  Keywords for Asian American Studies (New York University Press, 2015), Asian America: A Primary Source Reader (Yale University Press, forthcoming), and Disability, Human Rights and the Limits of Humanitarianism(Ashgate, 2014). She is currently working on two book length projects, tentatively titled, “Militarized Excess: Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan” and “Imperial Coordinates: Conflict, Containment, and Asian American Critique.”

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