Min Peng

Entry Year: 2023

Email

minp@mail.smu.edu

Education

Additional graduate coursework in English literature and theory at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
M.A. in English Language and Literature from Yunnan University, China
B.A. in English from Shanghai International Studies University, China

 

Biography

I take pride in my Chinese identity, which has shaped my academic niche and led me to explore the world of ordinary workers—from 19th-century Chinese railroad workers in America to contemporary entrepreneurship. Having pursued education in three countries, I now synthesize my interests in Comparative Race Studies—African American and Asian American (East Asian descent) literature and theory. My current research engages comparative race frameworks such as the Afro-Asian analogy and racial triangulation theory to move beyond the Black–White racial binary and contribute to ongoing scholarly conversations about interracial encounters, conflicts, and alliances between African American and Asian American communities.

 

Area of Expertise

  • 19th Century (Chinese workers in nineteenth-century America; the relationship between chattel slavery and Asiatic coolieism)
  • Modernism to Contemporary (Twentieth-and twenty-first-century African American and Asian American literature and theory)
  • African American Literature
  • Asian American Literature
  • Global Anglophone Literature

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