Sue J. Kim

Sue J. Kim’s essays have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, The Journal of Asian American Studies, Narrative, and College Literature, and she has essays forthcoming in the collections Multimedia Encounters: Film, Television, Web, Comics and Latinos in the 21st Century (U Illinois P), Postmodern Literature and Race (Cambridge UP), and Queer/Feminist Narrative Theories (Ohio State UP). She is the author of Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race (Palgrave 2009). Her forthcoming book, On Anger: Race, Cognition, Narrative (U Texas P, 2013), seeks to bring into conversation cognitive and cultural studies approaches to anger. She is guest editor of “Decolonizing Narrative Theory”, a special issue of the Journal of Narrative Theory (Fall 2012), and she is co-editing a collection on Rethinking Empathy, which re-examines current thinking on literature and empathy.

She currently serves on the Modern Language Association (MLA) Committee on the Literatures of People of Color of the U.S. and Canada (2012-15), and is MLA Assembly Delegate for the Asian American Literature Division. She is co-chair of the East of California (EOC) caucus of the Association for Asian American Studies (2012-14), and she is co-coordinator for the 2014 International Conference on Narrative in Cambridge, Mass.