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Grace Kyungwon Hong

Professor

Areas of Interest: Comparative & Relational Race Theory, Cultural Studies, Gender, Political Economies of Race, Race and Neoliberalism, Women of Color Feminism, and Sexuality

Affiliations:

Asian American Studies
Gender Studies

Email: gracehongucla@gmail.com

Office:

2339 Rolfe Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095

Biography

Grace Kyungwon Hong is Professor of Asian American Studies at UCLA; she also holds a joint appointment in Gender Studies. She is also currently the Director of the Center for the Study of Women. Her research focuses on women of color feminism as an epistemological critique of, and alternative to, Western liberal humanism and racial capitalism, particularly as they manifest as contemporary neoliberalism.

She is the author of Death Beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference (University of Minnesota Press, 2015) which won the Association for Asian American Studies Cultural Studies book prize, and The Ruptures of American Capital:  Women of Color Feminism and the Cultures of Immigrant Labor (University of Minnesota Press, 2006). She is the co-editor (with Roderick Ferguson) of Strange Affinities:  The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization (Duke University Press, 2011).  She is the co-editor (also with Roderick Ferguson) of the Difference Incorporated book series at the University of Minnesota Press.

Education

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2000
M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1995
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1992

Research Interests

Women of Color Feminism, Comparative & Relational Race Theory, Cultural Studies, Political Economies of Race, Gender, and Sexuality, Race and Neoliberalism

Publications

  • Death Beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015
  • “Neoliberalism,” Journal of Critical Ethnic Studies 1.1 (2015): 1-19.
  • “Ghosts of Camptown,” MELUS 39.3 (2014): 49-67.
  • (With Roderick A. Ferguson), “The Racial and Sexual Contradictions of Neoliberalism.” Journal of Homosexuality 59.7 (2012): 1057-1064.
  • “Existentially Surplus: Women of Color Feminism and the New Crises of Capitalism,” GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies 18.1 (Fall 2011): 87-106.
  • (co-edited), Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
  • The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and The Culture of Immigrant Labor. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006
  • “Most Overrated Western Virtue”: The Politics of Knowledge in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth.” Immigration and Migration: Social Change, and Cultural Transformation, ed. Emory Elliott.  New York: Palgrave-MacMillan (2008): 15-45.
  • “The Ghosts of Transnational American Studies.” American Quarterly 59: 1 (March 2007): 33-9.“‘A Shared Queerness’: Colonialism, Transnationalism, and Sexuality in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night.” Meridians 7: 1 (Fall 2006): 73-103

Awards

  • C. Doris and Toshio Hoshide Distinguished Teaching Prize, UCLA Asian American Studies, 2016
  • Grantwriter and co-investigator, Consortium for Black Studies in California, Multi- Campus Research Programs and Initiatives, 2014-15
  • Co-Organizer, UCHRI Residential Research Group, “Between Life and Death:  Necropolitics in the Era of Late Capitalism,” Spring 2012.
  • Faculty Research on Diversity Award, UCLA Academic Senate, 2016
  • UCLA Asian American Studies M.A. Teaching Award, 2009-10.
  • University of California President’s Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2001-2002
  • Civil Liberties Public Education Fund National Fellow, 1997-1998

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