Cathy J. Schlund-Vials

Director, Asian and Asian American Studies Institute

Professor, English and Asian and Asian American Studies


Primary Research Theme

Built Environment

Secondary Research Themes

Economic and Community Development, People and the City, Social-Ecological Systems

Selected Urban-Related Publications

““Americanism: Assimilation and the ‘Immigrant Question.’” American Literature in Transition, 1910-1920. Mark W. Van Wienen (editor). (Cambridge University Press 2017): pp. 131-145.”

““Towards Decolonization.” American Literature in Transition, 1950-1960. Steven W. Bellettoand Daniel Grausam (editors). (Cambridge University Press 2017): pp. 60-72.”

“Introduction.” Flashpoints for Asian American Studies. Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (editor). (Fordham University Press 2017): pp. 1-18.

“Planned Obsolescence: Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, and the Neoliberal University.” Flashpoints for Asian American Studies. Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (editor). (Fordham University Press 2017): pp. 66-81.

““Introduction: Who We Are” (with Sean Frederick Forbes and Tara Betts). The Beiging of America: Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the Twenty-FirstCentury, co-edited with Sean Frederick Forbes and Tara Betts. (2Leaf Press 2017): 16: 1-16.”

““Introduction” (with Martha J. Cutter). Redrawing the Historical Past: History, Memory, and Multi-Ethnic Graphic Narrative. Martha J. Cutter and Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (editors). (University of Georgia Press 2018): pp. 1-17.”

““Speculative Fictions, Historical Reckonings, and ‘What Could Have Been’: Scott McCloud’sThe New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln.” Redrawing the Historical Past: History, Memory, and Multi-Ethnic Graphic Narrative. Martha J. Cutter and Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (editors). (University of Georgia Press 2018): pp. 253-279.

“Immigration, Migration, and the United States: Immigrant/Refugee Writing and Ethnic American Literature.” Emergence and Recognition of Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Writers since 1945: Thirteen National Contexts in Europe and Beyond. Wiebke Sievers and Sandra Vlasta, editors. (Rodopi 2018): pp. 463-495.

“Introduction: Rethinking the Asian American Literary Canon” (with Lawrence-Minh Búi Davis). The Massachusetts Review. Volume 59, Issue 4, Winter 2018: pp. 593-595.

“A Poetry Portfolio” (with Lawrence-Minh Búi Davis). The Massachusetts Review. Volume 59, Issue 4, Winter 2018: p. 661.

“Deconstructing Madmen: Mapping the Relevance of Asian American Literature. The Massachusetts Review. Volume 59, Issue 4, Winter 2018: pp. 688-692.

“Creating Something in Times of Destruction: The Potential Energy of Refugee Writing.” LITLiterature Interpretation Theory. 29.2: pp. 91-96.