Jodi Kim
Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies
Ph.D., 2004, University of California, Berkeley
INTS 4034
(951) 827-2523
Jodi Kim is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies. She began teaching at UCR in 2004 and is currently at work on a book project entitled Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and Cold War Compositions. This study offers a critique of American empire in Asia through an interdisciplinary analysis of Asian American cultural productions and their critical intersections with Cold War geopolitics and logics. Professor Kim's research and teaching interests include Asian American literature and culture, postcolonial studies, and globalization. Courses she teaches include Contemporary Asian American Literature, Asian American Film and Video, Asian American Women, Third World Literature, and Theories of Race and Resistance.
DEGREES
- Ph.D., UC Berkeley
- B.A., UCLA
AWARDS
Center for Ideas and Society Residential Fellowship, UC Riverside, Spring 2006, Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley, 2003
** Campus-wide teaching excellence award granted to fewer than 10% of Graduate Student Instructors based on departmental nominations and student evaluations.
University of California Dissertation-Year Fellowship, 2002-2003, Chancellor's Predoctoral Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2000-2001, 1996-1998, Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 1999-2000, College Honors, Dean's Honor's List, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, UCLA, 1993
RESEARCH AREAS
Asian American literature and cultural politics, Critical Race Studies, Critical American Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Marxism, Globalization and Empire
PUBLICATIONS
"'They're a Billion Bellies out There': Commodity Fetishism, the Uber-Oriental, and the Geopolitics of Desire in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly." Culture, Identity, Commodity: Diasporic Chinese Literatures in English. Eds. Kam Louie and Tseen Khoo. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005.
"Haunting History: Violence, Trauma, and the Politics of Memory in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman," Hitting Critical Mass: A Journal of Asian American Cultural Criticism 6.1 (Fall 1999): 61-78.
FORMER INSTITUTION
- UC Berkeley
BIOGRAPHY
Jodi Kim is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside. She received her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley in 2004. Her research and teaching interests include Asian American Literature and Cultural Politics, Critical Race Studies, Critical American Studies, Postcolonial Theory, and Empire. Her current book manuscript is an interdisciplinary study of Asian American cultural politics and the Cold War. This work offers a critical reframing of the Cold War in contending that it was a geopolitical, cultural, and epistemological project of racial formation and imperialism under girding U.S. global capitalism, and demonstrates the centrality of Asia to that project.