معرفی
Hilda H. Ma serves as Associate Professor in the English Department at Saint Mary's College of California's School of Liberal Arts, where she also directs the Collegiate Seminar program. Her teaching portfolio includes British Literature I, Composition, Critical Refugee Studies, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, and Introduction to Literary Analysis.
Her academic credentials feature foundational training in English literature:
- Ph.D. English, SUNY University at Buffalo (2009)
- M.A. English, SUNY University at Buffalo (2004)
- B.A. English, Saint Mary's College of California (2001)
Professor Ma's research interrogates intersections between classical Western literature and contemporary identity frameworks, with particular emphasis on Shakespearean studies refracted through refugee experiences. Her work synthesizes Early Modern textual analysis with Critical Refugee Theory, Vietnamese American narratives, and gender-focused readings of violence in Renaissance drama. This interdisciplinary approach reveals how medical discourse in Renaissance texts informs modern postcolonial subjectivity.
Current scholarly trajectories demonstrate consistent fusion of Shakespearean tragedy with refugee optics, notably through analysis of Viet Thanh Nguyen's 'The Sympathizer.' Her publications and conference presentations systematically deconstruct Western canon through lenses of Asian American identity and displacement, establishing new methodological frameworks for reading classical literature through forced migration narratives.
Academic service includes leadership in the Collegiate Seminar program and active conference participation, such as the 2024 presentation 'Collegiate Seminar Program and Closing the Assessment Loop' and collaborations with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival examining diverse performance interpretations of Macbeth.
