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David L. Eng
Associate Professor of English
Contact Information
Office: Murray Hall, 054
Campus: College Ave, New Brunswick
Email: david.eng@rutgers.edu
Telephone: (732) 932-7083
Office Hours:

On leave 2007-08

Specialization
Asian American literature and culture; American and Chinese literature; cinema and visual culture; transnational, psychoanalytic, feminist, queer, critical race, and architecture/urban studies
Biography

B.A., Columbia; M.A., Ph.D., California (Berkeley)

Professor Eng is a specialist in Asian American literature and culture as well as American and Chinese literature, cinema, and visual culture.  His essays, focusing on the intersection of racial and sexual difference in psychoanalytic, feminist, queer, and critical race theory, have appeared in Amerasia Journal, Camera Obscura, Critical Mass, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Qui Parle, Signs Theatre Journal, Social Text, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. He is the author of Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (Duke University Press, 2001).  In addition, Professor Eng is co-editor with David Kazanjian of Loss: The Politics of Mourning (University of California Press, 2003) and co-editor with Alice Y. Hom of Q & A: Queer in Asian America (Temple University Press, 1998), winner of a 1998 Lambda Literary Award and the 1998 Cultural Studies Book Award of the Association for Asian American Studies.  His current projects include Queer Diasporas/Psychic Diasporas, which explores the material and psychic impact of Asian transnational and queer social movements on family and kinship in the late twentieth-century, as well as the special issue of Social Text on the emergence of queer liberalism, "What's Queer About Queer Theory Now?"  He is on the board of The Asian American Writers' Workshop and a member on the editorial collectives of American Literature, Social Text, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality.

Publications
Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America Loss: The Politics of Mourning Q & A: Queer in Asian America
Undergraduate Courses Taught Graduate Courses Taught

Asian American Literature and Culture

Asian American Literature and Law

Queer Diasporas: Asia/America

Introduction to Literary Theory

Introduction to Feminist/Queer Studies

Queer Theory

Psychoanalysis and Kinship

Psychoanalysis and Ethics

Melancholia and the City

Paranoia and the City

Advanced Topics in Asian American Studies

Freud and His Commentators

Cultural Studies in China

Trauma and Witnessing in Modern China

 
 

 

 
 
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