Jennifer Wang

Jennifer Wang is a Professor in the Department of English and American Literatures at Middlebury College, College of Arts and Sciences. She teaches courses focused on Asian American popular culture, multi-ethnic literature, and critical analysis of race in the 21st century, including

• Senior Thesis guidance
• Asian American Pop!
• Multi-Ethnic American Literature
• Reading Race in the 21st Century
• Special Project: Literature

Her work explores intersections of racial formation, diaspora, gender, and cultural politics through literary and media analysis.

Research interests include

• Contemporary BIPOC literature and its evolution from historical traditions
• Genre fiction and shifts in the literary marketplace
• Queer diasporas and Asian American girlhood
• Independent cinema as a medium for racialized storytelling
• Millennial aesthetics in literature and media

She emphasizes the political and social contexts of cultural representation.