Monica Chiu is Professor of English, specializing in Asian American studies, with a current focus on Asian/American graphic narratives and manga. Her monographs include Filthy Fictions: Asian American Literature by Women (Alta Mira, 2004) and Scrutinized! Surveillance in Asian North American Literature (University of Hawai'i Press, 2014). She is a former Fulbright Scholar, teaching at The University of Hong Kong (2011-12). The international Fulbright seminar she organized led to her forthcoming edited collection Drawing New Color Lines: Transnational Asian American Graphic Narratives (Hong Kong University Press). Her essays have been published in journals such as Mosaic; LIT: Literature, Theory, Interpretation; The Hmong Studies Journal; The Journal of American Literature; MELUS; English Language Studies; and The Lion and the Unicorn. She has won campus-wide and regional awards for her commitment to diversity: President's Excellence Through Diversity Faculty Award (2008) and the Social Justice Award for Faculty Groups, recognizing her Ford Foundation-supported work on diversity and pedagogy (2007). The organization New Hampshire Women in Higher Education Leadership presented her with an Emerging Professional Award (2008). She is a 2008 graduate of the HERS Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration, Wellesley College, and is currently chairing an NSF-funded committee on the recruitment of women and underrepresented faculty in sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics. She directed the University Honors Program in 2008-2011.
Courses Taught
- ENGL 401: First-Year Writing
- ENGL 419: How to Read Anything
- ENGL 516W: American Lit II Money
- ENGL 550: Intro to Lit and Cult of Race
- ENGL 565: Literary Dublin
- ENGL 565/897: Literary Dublin
- ENGL 650: Studying American Literature
- ENGL 655: Comics and Graphic Narrative
- ENGL 738/897: Asian American Studies
- ENGL 787: English Major Seminar
- ENGL 788: Senior Honors
- ENGL 808: Nonfiction: Form and Technique
- ENGL 897: Special Studies in Literature
- ENGL 938: Sem/20th C American Literature
Research Interests
- Asian North American studies
- Graphic narratives and comics
- Race and ethnic studies
- Visual culture
Selected Publications
Chiu, M. (2019). Scrutinizing Impossible Subjects. In Asian American Literature in Transition: 1965-1995. Cambridge University Press.
Chiu, M. E., & Roan, J. (2018). Asian American Graphic Narrative. In F. Cheung (Ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Studies.
Chiu, M. E. (2017). Who Needs a Chinese American Superhero? Yang and Liew's The Shadow Hero as a Historiography of Race in Comics. In Redrawing the Historical Past: History, Memory, and Multiethnic Graphic Novels. Retrieved from https://scholars.unh.edu/eng_facpub/137
Affects of Inclusion in Kawaguchi's Eagle: The Making of an Asian American President (2015).
Chiu, M. E. (2015). Introduction: Visual Realities of Race. In Drawing New Color Lines: Transnational Asian American Graphic Narratives. Retrieved from https://scholars.unh.edu/eng_facpub/140
Chiu, M. (2008). SEQUENCING AND CONTINGENT INDIVIDUALISM IN THE GRAPHIC, POSTCOLONIAL SPACES OF SATRAPI'S PERSEPOLIS AND OKUBO'S CITIZEN 13660. ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOTES, 46(2), 99-114. Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/
Chiu, M. (2006). The cultural production of Asian American young adults in the novels of Marie G. Lee, An Na, and Doris Jones Yang. LION AND THE UNICORN, 30(2), 168-184. doi:10.1353/uni.2006.0017
Chiu, M. (2003). Trauma and multiplicity in Nieh's 'Mulberry and Peach'. MOSAIC-A JOURNAL FOR THE INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF LITERATURE, 36(3), 19-35. Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/
Chiu, M. (2001). Postnational globalization and (en)gendered meat production in Ruth L. Ozeki's my year of meats. LIT Literature Interpretation Theory, 12(1), 99-128. doi:10.1080/10436920108580283
Chiu, M. (2000). Being human in the wor(l)d: Chinese men and Maxine Hong Kingston's reworking of 'Robinson Crusoe'. JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES, 34, 167-206. Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/
