Jennifer Chang
- Title:
- Associate Professor of English
- Office:
- Phillips Hall, Room 612
- Email:
- [email protected]
Areas of Expertise
Creative Writing (Poetry and Creative Non-Fiction); Poetry and Poetics; Twentieth Century Literature, especially Anglophone and American Modernism; and Transnational Studies
Professor of English
Current Research
Professor Chang is a poet and scholar. Her current research and writing interests include urban forestry, epistolary poetics, and the Opium War.
Education
PhD, University of Virginia, 2017
MFA, University of Virginia, 2002
BA, University of Chicago, 1998
Publications
Books:
Some Say the Lark (Alice James Books 2017)
The History of Anonymity (University of Georgia Press 2008)
Selected Poems in Journals and Anthologies
“We Found the Body of a Young Deer Once” (The New Yorker)
"Lost Child," Boston Review
“How to Live in an American Town” (Narrative, July 2016)
"Lost Child," Boston Review (forthcoming)
“A Horse Named Never,” Poetry (October 2015)
“Dorothy Wordsworth” Best American Poetry 2012 (Scribners, 2012)
Essays in Journals and Anthologies:
“Watching Badlands in New Jersey” (New England Review, forthcoming)
“On Writing ‘A Horse Named Never,’” Poetry Foundation blog (October 2015)
“Statement of Purpose,” The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind, eds. Claudia Rankine, Max Cap King, and Beth Loffreda (Fence Books, 2015)
“The Public Life of Poetry: A Conversation with Natasha Trethewey,” Los Angeles Review of Books (June 2013)
“On Forgetting and Other Natural Erasures,” The Volta (April 2013)
“How to Read a Prophecy,” Los Angeles Review of Books (July 2012)
Scholarly Publications:
“Asian American Lyric Poetry,” Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture, ed. Jennifer Ho (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
“Pastoral and the Problem of Place in Claude McKay’s Harlem Shadows,” Companion to the Harlem Renaissance (Blackwell, 2015)
Entries on chain rhyme, grammatical rhyme, and internal rhyme in Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetic, eds. Stephen Cushman and Roland Greene (Princeton University Press, 2012)
