This Thursday join Concordia University professor Hsuan L. Hsu at NYU’s Department of English as he builds on Indigenous studies and settler colonial studies in his consideration of olfaction as a means undoing colonization’s atmospheric disparities. Hsu is currently working on a manuscript entitled The Smell of Risk: Atmospheric Disparities and the Olfactory Arts (under contract with NYU Press), which further considers olfactory aesthetics as a mode of engaging with environmental injustice in literature, art, memoir, and law.
Hsuan L. Hsu’s research interests include 19th and 20th-Century U.S. literature, Asian diasporic literature, race studies, cultural geography, sensory studies, and the environmental humanities. He is the author of Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Cambridge, 2010) and Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain, Asia, and Comparative Racialization (NYU, 2015). A graduate of UC Berkeley, he held positions at Yale and UC Davis before recently joining the faculty at Concordia University. His recent courses have examined topics such as geographies of risk, transnational American literature, medical humanities, the aesthetics of atmosphere, and race and realism.
Thursday November 21, 2019 at 4:30pm
Department of English
244 Greene Street, Room 106
New York, NY
10003
244 Greene Street, Room 106
New York, NY
10003
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