Sally Forth, Sad Girl! (Novel-In-Progress)
Prof. Sally Wen Mao will present on Sally Forth, Sad Girl!, a novel-in-progress following a Chinese American poet living in an artist residency in Shanghai.
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Godzilla Minus One Meets Past Lives: Romantic Histories and Historic Romances
Prof. Jayashree Kamblé will present on her essay in CUNY FORUM Volume 11:1, focusing on love and gender roles in the recent globally successful films Godzilla Minus One and Past Lives.
Love Can’t Feed You: A Novel
Cherry Lou Sy’s debut novel Love Can’t Feed You (Dutton, 2024) is a heartfelt and poignant exploration of love, sacrifice, and survival in the face of adversity.
Ginko Okazaki: a Japanese American Novelist in an Age of Ultranationalism
This panel presentation introduces an ongoing project to recover and translate the Japanese-language writings of the Issei novelist and teacher Ginko Okazaki (pen-name of Masue Shinozaki Orimo, 1895-1973).
The Way You Want to Be Loved (Book Talk)
In agile and frank prose, The Way You Want to Be Loved (Gaudy Boy, 2024) tells the stories of queer, displaced lives from India’s Northeast, an underrepresented region in English fiction.
Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine’s Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation
In Creating Identity, Prof. Jayashree Kamblé examines the romance genre, with its sensile flexibility in retaining what audiences find desirable and discarding what is not, by asking an important question: “Who is the romance heroine, and what does she want?”