A Refuge for Jae-in Doe and Other Fugues

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Friday, April 25, 2025 | 12pm to 1pm

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Note: Discussion limited to CUNY faculty, staff and students. Talk will not be recorded.

Seo-Young Chu will discuss her forthcoming book A Refuge for Jae-in Doe and Other Fugues (Punctum Books, Spring 2026), which is at once the memoir of an abuse survivor missing an identifiable self, a makeshift refuge for a Korean American “Jane Doe,” and a lyric meta-memoir that reflects on what it means to write autobiographically.

Purchase Book: https://punctumbooks.com/titles/a-refuge-for-jae-in-doe-and-other-fugues/

Author Bio

Seo-Young Chu’s publications include A Refuge for Jae-in Doe and Other Fugues (forthcoming, Punctum Books; Sundress Publications 2024 Prose Open Reading Period Semifinalist), “I, Discomfort Woman: A Fugue in F Minor” (The Margins, Asian American Writers’ Workshop), “Free Indirect Suicide: An Unfinished Fugue In H Minor” (The Rumpus), Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation (Harvard UP), and “I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley” (Techno-Orientalism, Rutgers UP). Her work has been nominated for “Best of the Net” three times, listed among “Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction” in The Best American Essays, and anthologized in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Best American Experimental Writing, Sense of Wonder, and Advanced Creative Nonfiction. She teaches in the English Department at Queens College/CUNY.