Hua Hsu

Hua Hsu is an associate professor of English and director of the American Studies program. He is also a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific (Harvard University Press, 2016.)
Hua Hsu is an associate professor of English and director of the American Studies program. He is also a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific (Harvard University Press, 2016.) He previously contributed to Artforum, The Atlantic, Grantland, Slate, and The Wire (UK). His scholarly work has appeared in American Quarterly, Criticism, PMLA, and Genre. His essays and criticism have been anthologized in Best Music Writing and Best African American Essays, and his 2012 essay for Lucky Peach on suburban Chinatowns was a finalist for a James Beard Award for food writing. He also served on the editorial board of A New Literary History of America (HUP, 2009). He is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Popular Music Studies, the advisory board of the Center for Experimental Humanities (NYU) and the executive board of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. From 2014-2016, he was a fellow at New America.
Research and Academic Interests
Asian American Studies
Transpacific Studies
Critical Ethnic Studies
Popular Culture and Subculture
Essays
Literary Non-fiction
Departments and Programs
Courses
AMST/ENGL/URBS 177 Special Topics
ENGL 101 The Art of Reading and Writing
In the Media
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