About
Jace Jung is a third year Ph.D. candidate in English Language & Literature at the University of Michigan, working on Asian American and global Anglophone literatures and posthuman theory. His research focuses on new materialist conceptions of statelessness, citizenship, and racial belonging as informed by the environment, matter, and molecules. He was awarded the Lora Hutchins Heberle Award for Outstanding Critical Writing and his research has been supported by the Nam Center for Korean Studies.
Jace currently serves as a co-coordinator for Critical Conversations, an interdepartmental panel discussion series organized by the English Department Associate Chair’s office that invites University of Michigan faculty to present flash talks about their current research as related to a broad theme. He is also a co-coordinator for the Environmental Humanities Workshop, a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop (RIW) that facilitates interdisciplinary research, discussion, and seeks to foster an accessible, structured scholarly community for Environmental Humanists.
Research Interests
- Asian American literature
- Global Anglophone literature
- Posthumanism
- Environmental Humanities
- Science and Technology Studies
Department Service: Co-coordinator, Critical Conversations; Co-coordinator, Environmental Humanities Workshop
