Betsy Huang
Professor, English
Scholarly Interests
Genre Theory and Fiction | Critical Ethnic Studies | Asian American Literature and Culture | Science Fictions and Futurisms
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Betsy Huang is Professor of English at Clark University. She served as Associate Provost and Dean of the College from 2019 to 2024, as Director of the Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies from 2017 to 2019, and was Clark’s inaugural Chief Officer of Diversity and Inclusion from 2013 to 2016. She held the Andrea B. and Peter D. Klein ’64 Distinguished Professorship from 2018 to 2023.
Dr. Huang came to Clark in 2003 when she joined the English Department as its first specialist in U.S. multi-ethnic literature. She teaches and researches in the overlapping spheres of ethnic American and Asian American literature, genre fiction and theory with an emphasis on science fiction, and critical ethnic studies. Her teaching focuses on literatures on the margins: stories of people living and writing in spaces of cultural and historical invisibility. She is a two-time winner of Clark University's Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award.
Courses taught by Dr. Huang include Ethnic America: Literature, Theory, Politics; Fictions of Asian America; Studies in Contemporary Literature: Speculative Fiction; Science Fiction and the Mind of the Other (with Dr. Scott Hendricks, Philosophy); Race, Genre, and Autobiography (with Dr. Shelly Tenenbaum, Sociology); Speculative fiction: Ecologies and Technologies; and the English Senior Capstone.Dr. Huang has published four books — a monograph, Contesting Genres in Contemporary Asian American Fiction (Palgrave, 2010), and three co-edited essay collections: Asian American Literature in Transition: 1996-2020 (Cambridge University Press, 2021); Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education and Societal Contexts (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); and Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media (Rutgers UP, 2015). She and her co-editors recently completed Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions, a follow-up volume to the first Techno-Orientalism anthology that is forthcoming in 2025, on the ten-year anniversary of the publication of the first volume. Her work has appeared in The Cambridge Companion to American Horror, The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature, Journal of Asian American Studies, and MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the U.S..
Degrees
- Ph.D. in English and American Literature, University of Rochester, 2004
- M.A. in English and American Literature, University of Rochester, 1999
- M.A. in English and American Literature, Kent State University, 1996
- B.A. in English, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1989
Affiliated Department(s)
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Scholarly and Creative Works
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"C(h)asing Ching Ho Cheng"
Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference
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Seattle, WA
April
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2024
Sponsored by AAAS
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PANEL: "Identity, Subjectivity, and Genre in Contemporary Asian American Literature"
Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference
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Seattle, WA
April
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2024
Sponsored by AAAS
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"Asian American Speculative Fiction and the Escape from Good-Life Fantasies"
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference
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Montreal, Canada
March
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2024
Sponsored by ACLA
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Techno-Orientalism 2: New Forms and Formulations (edited volume; under contract)
Asian American Studies Today
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2024
Rutgers University Press
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"Ideation to Publication: The Whys and Hows of Edited Essay Collections"
Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference
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Long Beach, CA
April
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2023
Sponsored by Association for Asian American Studies
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Published by Flame Tree Publishing of Simon & Schuster
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2023
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"Asian/American Gaming: Techno-Orientalism, Open World Empire, and the Race Card."
"Fair Games" Symposium, Higgins School of Humanities
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Clark University, Worcester, MA
March
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2022
Sponsored by Higgins School of Humanities, Clark University
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"Half-Baked Ideas": Share Your Project-in-Progress and Get Feedback
Association for Asian American Studies Annual Convention
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Denver, CO
April
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2022
Sponsored by Association for Asian American Studies
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Published by Modern Language Association of America
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2022
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Cambridge Companion to American Horror
Chapter: "Science Fiction and the Weird"Published by Cambridge University Press
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2022
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Asian American Literature in Transition, 1996-2020
Asian American Literature in Transition
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2021
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Vol. Volume 4
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ISBN #9781108914109
Cambridge University Press
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Published by Palgrave Macmillan
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2019
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Published by Palgrave Macmillan
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2018
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Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education and Societal Contexts.
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2018
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ISBN #978-3319701769
Palgrave Macmillan
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CTRL+ALT: A Culture Lab on Imagined Futures
Science Fiction Flash Fiction Exhibit and Performances
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
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Soho, New York
Nov. 12, 2016
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Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature
Chapter: "Popular Genres and New Media"Published by Cambridge University Press
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2015
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Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, Media.
Asian American Studies Today
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2015
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ISBN #9780813570648
Rutgers University Press
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Contesting Genres in Contemporary Asian American Fiction
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2010
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ISBN #978-0-230-10831-8
Palgrave Macmillan
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"C(h)asing Ching Ho Cheng"
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On Predictability
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Awards & Grants
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Andrea B. and Peter D. Klein '64 Distinguished Professorship
Clark University
2018
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Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher of the Year
Clark University
2014
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Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor of the Year
Clark University
2012
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Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher of the Year
Clark University
2006
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Edward Hodgkins Junior Faculty Award
Clark University
2006
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