Chong Chon-Smith

Chong Chon-Smith is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Hunter College, CUNY, with affiliated faculty status in Asian Studies. His research examines 20th/21st century American literature, social movements, comparative racialization, cultural production, militarization, and healing narratives. His monograph East Meets Black pioneers interdisciplinary analysis of Asian and Black masculinities in literature and popular culture.

Professor Chon-Smith teaches courses in multiethnic literatures, literary theory, Asian American literature/popular culture, Afro-Asian imagination, and race/modernity. His work confronts racial hierarchies and what he terms 'racial magnetism' in post-civil rights America.