Dr. Janet Graham
Assistant Professor, Graduate Program Director
Department of English
Research focus areas: African American Literature, Asian American Literature, Biopolitics, Critical Refugee Studies, Decoloniality, Environmental Justice, Global Literature, Life Writing, Relationality, Secondary English Pedagogy, Vietnamese Diasporic Literature and Vietnamese Literature in Translation
Areas of Expertise
- English
- Literature
Education
- Ph.D., English. University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2019.
- M. Ed., Secondary English Education. Western Washington University, 1995.
- B.A., World Literatures and Cultures, The Evergreen State College, 1992.
Research Interests
- Critical Refugee Studies
- Multicultural North American Literature
- Diasporic Vietnamese Literature
- Life Writing
- Antiracist Teaching
Publications
- Vietnamese Refugee Journeys and the Fallacy of Certainty.” Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture, vol. 13, no, 1, October 2022, pp. 203-216.
- “The Ghost Mother in Two Vietnamese American Refugee Novels: A Critical Refugee Analysis” in Reclaiming Migrant Motherhood: Identity, Belonging, and Displacement in a Global Context, editor, Maria D. Lombard, Rowman and Littlefield, 2022, pp. 79-91.
- “Bending the Long Arc of War to a Vision of Peace: An Interview with Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai”: Multimedia Review, Journal of Vietnamese Studies (November 2021) - Co-authored with Quynh H. Vo.
- “Derek Walcott’s Poetics of Naming and Epistemologies of Place.” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 28, no. 2, November 2020, pp. 33-47.
- “Annual Bibliography of Works about Life Writing.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 1, 2020.
- “Student Participation and Teacher Questioning Techniques.” University General Requirement Unit (UGRU) Journal, Fall 2007. http://www.ugru.uaeu.ac.ae.
Courses Taught
- English 871A/P: Language and Composition in the Secondary School
- English 859: Colloquium on US Literature 1855-Present
- English 855A: Contemporary American Literature
- English 806: Principles of Literary Criticism
- English 447: Seminar in Post-World War II American Literature
- English 424: Teaching Secondary School English
- English 359: Contemporary American Multicultural Literature
- English 333: Non-Western Literature in Translation
- English 255: Introduction to Children’s Literature
- English 253GS: Introduction to Literature: Non-Western Civilization
- English 251: Introduction to Literature: American Literature
- English 102H: Honors Academic Writing and Research
- English 102: Academic Writing and Research
