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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: gracehong@asianam.ucla.edu

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. Her research focuses on women of color feminism as an epistemological critique of, and alternative to, Western liberal humanism and racial capitalism. She is also a co-PI on the UC Sentencing Project, an abolitionist feminist collaboration with grassroots organizations, led by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated researchers.

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, Abolitionist Feminism

Publications

  • (with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Lisa Nakamura) “‘Understanding’ Asians: Anti-Asian Racism, Sentimentality, Sentiment Analysis, and Digital Surveillance,” Critical Inquiry 50.3 (April 2024): 425-451.
  • Death Beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference. University of Minnesota Press, 2015. Awarded the Humanities and Cultural Studies Book Award (Multidisciplinary) by the Asian American Studies Association, 2017.
  • “Incommensurability and Intersectionality: Third World Feminism and Asian Decolonization,” in Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics, ed. Lynn Fujiwara and Shireen Roshanravan (University of Washington Press, 2018).
  • “Speculative Surplus: Asian American Racialization and the Neoliberal Shift,” Social Text 36.2 (June 2018).
  • (With Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo) “The Grammar of Failure: Dispossession, Mourning, and the Afterlife of Socialist Futurities, Social Identities (May 2016): 1-18.
  • (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

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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