Min Peng

Entry Year: 2023

Email

minp@mail.smu.edu

Education

Completed one semester of English Literature studies overseas at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea
M.A. in English Language and Literature from Yunnan University, China
B.A. in English from Shanghai International Studies University, China

I possess a deep fascination for contemporary American literature and have delved into ethnic studies during my M.A. studies in China and South Korea. With a robust foundation in this field, I am enthusiastic about furthering my academic pursuits, with a primary focus on Asian and African American Studies, Comparative Race Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Gender Studies in my current Ph.D. studies.

 

Area of Expertise

  • 19th Century (Chinese workers in nineteenth-century America; the relationship between chattel slavery and Asiatic coolieism)
  •  Modernism to Contemporary (Twentieth-and twenty-first-century African American and Asian American literature and theory)
  • African American Literature
  • Asian American Literature
  • Global Anglophone Literature

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