Jace Jung

Jace Jung is a second year Ph.D. student in English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. His research is on contemporary global Anglophone literature, Asian diasporic cultural production, ecocriticism, and posthuman theory. His research is invested in examining how diasporic and Asian American writers use the relationship between water and land environments to entangle narratives, the environment, and racial identity formation and critique neocolonialism.

Research Focus

• Contemporary Global Anglophone
• Asian American literature
• Caribbean literature
• Ecocriticsm
• Posthuman and New Materialist Theory

Department Service: Co-coordinator, Critical Conversations; Co-coordinator, Environmental Humanities Workshop