Erin Suzuki

Erin Suzuki is an Associate Professor in the Literature Department. She received her Ph.D. in English from UCLA. Her research and teaching interests include Asian American literatures, Pacific Island literatures, American studies, transpacific studies, speculative fiction, and ecocriticism. She is the author of Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures (Temple University Press, 2021) and is currently developing a new book project that asks how representations of undersea creatures in transpacific literature and pop culture can help us think critically and creatively about the intersections of climate change and settler colonialism.

Pronouns: she/her

Books

• Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures (Temple University Press, 2021) [Winner of the 2023 Outstanding Achievement in Literary Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies]  LINK

Articles & Book Chapters

• "Articulating Indigeneity in Global Asias: Identity, Epistemology, and Methodology," with Jenny Chio, Diego Luis, and Kyle Shernuk. In Tactics and Theories for a Global Asias Praxis, eds. Tina Chen and Charlotte Eubanks. University of Hawai'i Press, 2024
• "Desert, Island, Ocean, Swamp: Cold War Ecologies and the Asian American Environment." Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930-165, eds. Victor Bascara and Josephine Park. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021
• "The Transpacific Subject in Asian American Literature," with Aimee Bahng. Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture, ed. Josephine Lee, Oxford University Press, 2020
• "And the View From the Ship: Setting Asian American Studies Asail." Verge: Studies in Global Asias 4.2, Fall 2018
• "Beasts From the Deep," Journal of Asian American Studies 20.1, 2017
• "Postcolonialism and Asian American Studies," Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies, ed. Cindy I-Fen Cheng. New York: Routledge, 2016
• America's Empire and the Asia-Pacific: Constructing Hawai'i and the Philippines," with Denise Cruz. Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature, eds. Daniel Kim and Crystal Parikh. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015
• "Transpacific." Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature, ed. Rachelk Lee. New York: Routledge, 2014
• "Cheesiness as Neocolonial Aesthetic." Amerasia Jounral 40.2, 2014
• "Genealogy and Geography in Patricia Grace's Tu." MFS: Modern Fiction Stuides 58.1, 2012
• "Haunted Homelands: Negotiating Locality in Father of the Four Passages." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 56.1, 2010
• "Frauds and Gods: The Politics of Religion in Melville's Omoo and Mardi." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renasisance 53.4, 2007
• "Consuming Desires: Melancholia and Consumption in Blu's Hanging." MELUS 31.1, 2006
• "Lost in Translation: Reconsidering Shakespeare's Macbeth and Kurosawa's Throne of Blood." Literature/Film Quarterly 34.2, 2006 

Digital Humanities

• "Transpacific Methodologies: Anticolonial Solidarities and Feminist Collaboration," with Sam Ikehara, Hi'ilei Hobart, and Aimee Bahng. Syllabus created for special issue of Critical Ethnic Studies, Fall 2021  LINK

• Ph.D. in English, University of California, Los Angeles, 2010
• B.A. in English, Brown University, 2000