Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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Mai Wang
COLLEGE Teaching Fellow
BioMai Wang is a Lecturer and Teaching Fellow for the Civic, Liberal, and Global Education program. Mai completed her PhD in English at Stanford in 2021. She also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University and a BA in English from Yale University. Her research and teaching interests include Asian American studies, transnational Chinese and Southeast Asian studies, multicultural American literature, and critical translation theory. Her fiction and scholarship has appeared in Amerasia Journal, The Walt Whitman Quaterly Review, The Hopkins Review, Hyphen Magazine, and other publications.
Mai is currently working on a book project entitled "The Nonaligned Self: Asian Redeployments of the American Renaissance," which examines a network of affiliations that emerged between a group of Asian American and Chinese diasporic writers and their nineteenth-century predecessors from the American Renaissance. In the twentieth century, Asian writers living in the West revived the defense of the free individual found in the Anglo-American tradition of liberalism in order to imagine new forms of provisional belonging in a pluralistic society. Sustained transhistorical exchanges with the literary past enabled Asian writers living in exile as well as their Asian American counterparts to articulate muted critiques of American capitalist hegemony as well as Communist repression in places like mainland China. Asian writers instrumentalized the defense of liberalism they encountered in the writings of authors such as Emerson, Whitman, Hawthorne, and Douglass in order to invent a vision of nonaligned selfhood that was global in its aspirations, even as it sought to challenge the exclusionary limits of nation-states, whether they were Communist totalitarian regimes or Western multicultural democracies.
In her spare time, Mai enjoys cooking, trying new restaurants, and exploring the Bay Area. -
Gregory Watkins
Lecturer
BioGreg has taught in Structured Liberal Education (SLE) since 2002. He has a BA in Social Theory (a self-designed major) from Stanford, with Honors in Humanities, an MFA in Film Production from UCLA, and a dual PhD in Religious Studies and Humanities from Stanford, also from Stanford. Greg's research interests hover around the intersection of film and religion, and he continues to work on a variety of film projects.
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Roberta Wolfson
Lecturer
Current Research and Scholarly Interests20th and 21st Century Multiethnic U.S. Literatures, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Critical Mixed Race Studies, Racial and Social Justice, Ethnofuturist Speculative Fiction, Popular U.S. Culture, Risk and Security Studies
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Cassie Wright
PWR Advanced Lecturer
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Writing Program Administration; Rhetorical Theory, Writing Studies and Assessment, Critical Discourse Analysis , Sports Rhetorics
