Betsy Huang is Professor of English at Clark University. She served as Associate Provost and Dean of the College from 2019 to 2024 and held the Andrea B. and Peter D. Klein ’64 Distinguished Professorship from 2018 to 2023.
Dr. Huang joined Clark’s English Department in 2003 as its first specialist in U.S. multi-ethnic literature. She specializes in ethnic American and Asian American literature, science fiction, and genre fiction and theory. 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); the First Year Intensive seminar Ecologies and Technologies in Science Fiction; 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). Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions, a follow-up volume to the first Techno-Orientalism anthology, is forthcoming in July 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.
Dr. Huang was Director of the Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies from 2017 to 2019, and Clark’s inaugural Chief Officer of Diversity and Inclusion from 2013 to 2016.