English Department Faculty
Min Hyoung Song
Professor; Department Chair
Min Hyoung Song
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall S495
Telephone: 617-552-1655
Email: min.song@bc.edu
Education
- A.B., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
- Ph.D., Tufts University
Department
Biography
Min Hyoung Song is the Chair of the English Department, and the former director of the Asian American Studies Program.听His most recent book is听Climate Lyricism, which听won the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) Ecocritical Book Prize and has been short-listed for the Association听for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) Brook Prize.听He is also the author of two other books,听The Children of 965: On Writing and Not Writing as an Asian American听and听Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. 听The Children of 1965听won the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Prize in Literary Criticism, the Alpha Sigma Nu Award in Literature and Fine Arts, and received an Honorable Mention for the ASAP Book Prize. He is the general editor (with Rajini Srikanth) of the four-volume series "Asian American Literature in Transition" for Cambridge University Press, and co-editor (with Rajini Srikanth) of听The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature. In addition to numerous shorter publications in edited volumes and academic journals, his writings have appeared in venues like the Los Angeles Review of Books,听Washington Post,听Chronicle of Higher Education, Public Books, The Chicago Review of Books, and the Margins.听
Publications
- . Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. (This book is听.)
- (series co-editor with Rajini Srikanth). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- 听(co-edited with Rajini Srikanth). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press 2015.
- . Durham: Duke University Press, 2013.
- 听听Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.
- 听(co-edited with Jean Wu). New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000.
- 鈥淩acial Capitalism and the Border.鈥澨�American Literary History听34:3 (August 2022), 1041-1051.
- 鈥淐hildren in Transit / Children in Peril: The Contemporary US Novel in a Time of Climate Crisis.鈥� In听Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Environment, edited by Susan Parrish and Sarah Ensor. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- 鈥淐hildren of the Future.鈥� In听Race in American Literature and Culture, edited by John Richard Ernst. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- 鈥淭hrough the Arc of the Rain Forest as Planetary Fiction.鈥� In听Approaches to Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita, edited by Pamela Thoma and Ruth Hsu. New York: MLA Publications, 2021.
- 鈥淎sian American Literature in the Twenty-First Century.鈥澨�Massachusetts Review听(December 2018).
- 鈥淰iet Thanh Nguyen and the Scholar-Public Intellectual.鈥澨�PMLA听133:2 (Spring 2018), 406-412.
- "The Artful Things of Climate Change." In听Racial Ecologies, edited by Kim D. Hester Williams and LeiLani Nishime. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018.
- "An Ethics of Generosity." In听Flashpoints for Asian American Studies, edited by Cathy Schlund-Vials. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017.
- 鈥淩ace and Ethnicity.鈥� In听A Companion to Cultural and Critical Theory, edited by Imre Szeman, Sarah Blacker, and Justin Sully. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.
- "Neoliberalism and New Materialism." In听Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture, edited by Mitchum Huehls and Rachel Greenwald Smith. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.