Dr. Jennifer Ho
Professor • Director, Center for Humanities and the Arts
Asian American Studies
jennifer.ho@colorado.edu

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Pronouns: she / her / hers

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Education

Ph.D., Boston University - English, 2003
M.A., Boston University - English, 1996
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara听- English, 1992

Research Interests

Asian American literary and cultural studies, intersectionality, critical race studies, anti-racist theory and praxis, contemporary American multiethnic literature, critical mixed race studies

The daughter of a refugee father from China and an immigrant mother from Jamaica, whose parents themselves were immigrants from Hong Kong, Jennifer Ho is the director of the Center for Humanities & the Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she specializes in Asian American literary and cultural studies and Critical Race Theory. She is past president of the Association for Asian American Studies (2020-2022), the editor of four essay collections, most recently Global Anti-Asian Racism (Columbia UP 2024), the author of three scholarly monographs, including Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture (Rutgers UP 2015), which won the best monograph award from the South Atlantic Modern Language Association in 2017, and a number of essays and articles, both research oriented and public facing (a sampling of which is also on this webpage). In addition to her academic work, Ho is active in community engagement around issues of race and intersectionality.

Selected Interviews

鈥溾�� KBLA 1580 am Talk Radio. (May 2023).

鈥�,鈥� Asian America: the Ken Fong Podcast, (January 2023).

鈥�,鈥� It鈥檚 Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, NPR. (March 2021).

AMA Journal of Ethics 鈥� Ethics Talk: 鈥溾�澨�(June 2020).

Brown University 鈥� Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, 鈥溾�� (January 2018).

Splendid Table 鈥溾�� (March 2015).

WUNC 鈥� The State of Things 鈥溾�澨�(January 2014).

Selected Publications

Books

. Editor. Columbia University Press, 2024.

. Co-editor with Jenny Wills (University of Winnipeg). Modern Language Association Press, 2022.

.听Edited along with James Donahue (SUNY Potsdam) & Shaun Morgan (Tennessee Wesleyan College). Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2017.

. Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press,听2015.

. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2015.

. New York: Routledge Press, 2005.

Articles/Book Chapters

鈥淭he Necessity of Racial Literacy in a Mixed Race America,鈥� essay for , eds. Cristina Stanciu and Gary Totten (University of Illinois 2024) 15-31.

鈥淗ow to Center Anti-Racism and Intersectionality in Public Humanities Work,鈥� , eds. Daniel Fisher-Livine and Michelle May-Curry (Routledge 2024), 254-266.

鈥淭he State of Mixed Race Asian American Literature.鈥� (1995-present), eds. Betsy Huang and Victor Mendoza. Cambridge University Press, 2021, 294-310.

鈥溾�澨�Japan Forum. 听33:1, 148-159 (2021).

鈥溾�澨�Oxford American.听Spring 2019. 12-15.听

鈥淭he Accidental Academic or How to Succeed in Academia through Failure and Doubt.鈥澨�Staging Women鈥檚 Lives in Academia, eds. Michelle Masse and Nan Bauer-Maglin. State University of New York Press, 2017. 29-39.

鈥�.鈥澨�Keywords in Asian American Studies, eds. K. Scott Wong, Linda Vo, and听Cathy Schlund-Vials.听听New York: New York University Press, 2015. 125-127.

In-Progress听(single author)

鈥淚 Am Not My Breast Cancer: Why I Hate Those F* Pink Ribbons and Other Observations on My Post-Cancer Life鈥� (book manuscript/memoir).

鈥淭hree Continents, Five Countries, One Family: My Chinese Jamaican Family鈥檚 Transnational and Transpacific Story鈥� (book manuscript/family biography).

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