Susan Najita

Biography:
Assistant Professor, Department of English and Program in American Culture, app’t 2002.
B.S. University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1989
M.A. University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1995
Ph.D. University of California at Santa Barbara, 2001

Research/Teaching Specializations: Pacific literatures in English; 20th century American literature; postcolonial literature and theory; film and cultural studies; Asian American literature

Secondary Interests: U.S. minority literatures, modernism, gender theory

Courses Taught: Pacific Literature, Introduction to Asian Pacific American Literature, What is Literature, Pacific Literary and Cultural Studies.

Recent Publications: “Milton Morayama’s All I Asking For Is My Body: the Critical Context,” in Cultures and Contexts in Asian American Literature: A Guidebook, eds. Noelle Williams and Rowena Tomaneng, University of Hawaii Press, (forthcoming); “History, Trauma, and the Discursive Construction of ‘Race’ in John Dominis Holt’s Waimea Summer,” Cultural Critique, Winter 2001; “Family Resemblances and Narrative Fetishism: Critical Cultural Nationalism in The Piano,” ARIEL 32:1, January 2001.

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