About
Seo-Young Chu (she/her) is a queer disabled cyborg of mostly Korean descent. Her publications include “I, Discomfort Woman: A Fugue in F Minor”
(The Margins, Asian American Writers’ Workshop), “Free Indirect Suicide: An Unfinished Fugue In H Minor”
(The Rumpus), Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation (Harvard UP), “A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major”
(Entropy), and “I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley”
(Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media, Rutgers UP). Her work has been listed among “Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction” in
The Best American Essays 2020 and anthologized in
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018, Best American Experimental Writing 2020, and
Advanced Creative Nonfiction. Her current works-in-progress include a design-fictional memoir, a collection of Korean American sonnets, and a video essay on audio descriptions and anti-Asian violence. She teaches in the English Department at Queens College, CUNY.
https://mstdn.social/@seoyoungjchuEducation
B.A. Yale, 1999
M.A. Stanford, 2001
Ph.D. Harvard, 2007 Mastodon Feed
It was an honor to review *dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss* by Mimi Khúc. This book will save lives. #AsianAmerican #ModelMinority #MentalHealth #Academia https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/differentially-unwell-on-mimi-khucs-dear-elia-letters-from-the-asian-american-abyss/ (2024-03-07 ↗)
Yesterday I asked students in each of the courses I’m teaching to create a course “index”—an alphabetical list of terms/names/phrases relevant to the discussions we’ve had this semester. Today my brain is still dazzled by the richly textured indexes they created. I’m an incredibly lucky teacher✨ #pedagogy #teaching #learning (2023-11-16 ↗)
Every day I learn of a new survivor-shaped gap in academia. Our syllabi, classrooms, bibliographies, labs, thesis committees, libraries, conference panels, monographs are riddled with survivor-shaped gaps. How much knowledge have we lost to rape culture and abuse? #MeTooAcademia #MeToo #Academia (2023-11-09 ↗)
«Enough about Harvard. If we want to improve education for the 99 percent in this country, we should talk a lot less about the Ivy League and a lot more about great public colleges like the City University of New York (CUNY)» #CUNY #education https://jacobin.com/2023/09/harvard-ivy-league-legacies-city-university-of-new-york-public-colleges (2023-09-19 ↗)
Should “Departments of English” be replaced with “Departments of Englishes”? #English #Englishes #Academia (2023-09-05 ↗)
