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Susan
Najita
Associate Professor
U of M Affiliation(s)
Department of English Language & Literature
Program in American Culture
Asian/Pacific Islander American (A/PIA) Studies
Ph.D., UC-Santa Barbara, 2001
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Contact Information:
435 S. State Street, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1003
4184 Angell Hall
Phone: 734.764.6345
Fax: 734.936.1967
Email:
najita@umich.edu
Fields of Study: Pacific literatures in English; Asian-American literatures; U.S. minority literatures; postcolonial literature and theory; film and cultural studies; theories of gender and sexuality.
Secondary Fields of Study: 20th-century U.S. literature, modernism.
Department of English Website
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/faculty/fibDetail.asp?ID=268
Publications:
"Traumatic Realism, Genealogy, and Ongoing U.S. Colonialism in Hawai'i," special issue on Actually Existing Colonialisms, Journal of Contemporary Thought, 24, Winter 2006.
Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific: Reading History and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction, Routledge, 2006.
"History, Trauma, and the Discursive Construction of 'Race' in John Dominis Holt's Waimea Summer," Cultural Critique, Winter 2001.
"Family Resemblances and Narrative Fetishism: Critical Cultural Nationalism in The Piano," ARIEL. 32:1, 2001.
"Resemblances and Complicity: The Construction of Pakeha History in The Piano," in Complicities: Connections & Divisions, eds. Chitra Sankaran, Rajeev Patke, and Leong Liew Geok, Peter Lang AG, 2003.
Review of Rodney Morales's When the Shark Bites, The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs 16.2 (Fall 04).
"Pleasure and Colonial Resistance: Translating the Politics of Pidgin in Milton Murayama's All I Asking for Is My Body," forthcoming, Our Americas: Political and Cultural Imaginings, co-editors Sandhya Shukla and Heidi Tinsman, Radical History Review series and Duke University Press.
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