New Fall 2021 MALAS Seminar! MALAS-600A / Women’s Studies 611 Gender and Diaspora with Professor Anh Hua

MALAS-600A / Women’s Studies 611 

Gender & Diaspora 

Professor Anh Hua 

Fall 2021, synchronous online 

Section 02 | Schedule # 22275 | Units 3.0 

Session FALL  

Seminar 1600-1840, Tuesdays

Diaspora Studies examine the dispersions of populations and cultures across various geographical places and spaces. This discipline is emerging as a cutting-edge area of research alongside studies on transnationalism, globalization, nationalism, and postcoloniality. Diaspora is one of the most debated terms today, especially within scholarly discussions about migration, displacement, identities, community, global movements, and cultural politics.  

In this graduate course “Gender and Diaspora,” we will explore the historical and interdisciplinary perspectives on gendered impact of forcible migration, such as African, Jewish, Asian and other diasporas. We will analyze the scholarly debates concerning gendered experiences of diaspora on political identities, social movements, and cultural production. Some of the themes we will explore include: characteristics and types of diasporas; the relation between feminism and diasporas; issues of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and identities in diasporas; forced migration, the history of slavery, Holocaust and other genocides; media and digital diasporas; rites of return; homeland and nostalgia; exile and displacement; diaspora poetics and politics of memory; diasporic art and cultural productions; diasporic women’s writing and film; and the future of diasporic imaginings.

 

 

 

Anh Hua received her B.A. in Cultural Anthropology and her MA and PhD in Women's Studies at York University, Toronto, Canada. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women's Studies at San Diego State University, California. Her areas of research include diaspora studies, cultural studies, critical race and postcolonial feminisms, literature, film and the arts by women of color. She has published in the journals Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, Feminist Formations, Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, Asian Women, African and Black Diaspora, the Journal of International Women's Studies, and Canadian Woman's Studies and in the anthologies Diaspora, Memory, and Identity: A Search for Home and Emotion, Place and Culture. At the moment, she is working on four book projects: Diasporic Decolonial Feminisms: Literature, Film and the Arts; Ginkgo Memories: A Chinese Diasporic Feminist Memoir; Cherries and Pear Nectar, My Love: A Collection of Poetry; Aurora and the City of Twelve Sisters: A Children’s Book.  At SDSU, she has taught various courses:  “Feminist Approaches to Film”; “Women of Color in the US”; “Women in Literature”; “Women’s Experience of Migration”; “Women and Violence”; “Gender and Diaspora”; “Gender, Culture and Representation”; “Sex, Power and Politics”; and “Women in Asian Societies.”  Besides her scholarly teaching, research and service for the University, she loves to travel, paint, write creatively, take photographs, swim, dance, sing, hike and visit San Diego’s beautiful beaches.  In Fall 2021, she will be interim Undergrad Advisor for the Women’s Studies Department.  She has also served as a University Senator for three years.