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Elda Tsou is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at St. John's University since 2007. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Asian American literature, American ethnic literature, and literary theory. Her research intersects Asian American studies, Ethnic Studies, and literary theory, focusing on the formal relationship between literature and society in ethnic literary contexts.
- B.A., 1996, University of California, Berkeley, English
- M.A., 1999, University of Chicago, Master of Arts in the Humanities
- Ph.D., 2008, Columbia University, English and Comparative Literature
Her work examines how literary interventions reshape social and racial formations, with a focus on critical reading practices and formalist analysis. She is currently finalizing a manuscript titled Unquiet Tropes: Form, Race, Asian American Literature (forthcoming from Temple University Press), which interrogates the interplay between literary form and racial discourses.
Key publications include:
- ‘This Doesn’t Mean What You’ll Think’ (PMLA), analyzing allegory in Chang-Rae Lee’s Native Speaker;
- Catachresis: Blu’s Hanging (2011, Journal of Asian American Studies), exploring epistemological ruptures in literary discourse.
She has presented at conferences such as the American Studies Association (2012) and Association for Asian American Studies (multiple years), addressing topics like empire, critical reading, and literary theory.
