About
Amanda is in her sixth year teaching CSP 100 in the Summer Bridge Program, focusing for the third year on Asian American Narratives of Resistance. During the academic year, she is a Lecturer in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at the UM Flint campus, teaching art history, studio art, and sometimes fashion and Asian Studies. Each fall and winter semester, she teaches at least one class in the DEEP dual-enrollment program for area high schoolers at either Byron HS, Grand Blanc HS, or Flint Powers Catholic HS. She was born in Greybull, a very small town in Basin County, Wyoming, and was a first-generation college student. She was a FLAS Fellow in Japanese from 2006-08 and got her Ph.D. in American Studies from Michigan State University in 2011. She is also the author of four books!
In her spare time, Amanda loves music—from the Rolling Stones to C-Pop and K-Pop—thrifting, cats, squirrels, and flowers. Fun fact: Her husband Matthew also teaches in CSP Summer Bridge. One of her favorite things about CSP is that she gets to introduce new students to academic life at the university.
