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The daughter of a refugee father from China and an immigrant mother from Jamaica, whose own parents were immigrants from Hong Kong,ÌýJennifer Ho is the director of the Center for the Humanities & the Arts at the Â鶹ӰԺ, where she also holds an appointment as Professor in the Ethnic Studies department.Ìý

She is the past president of the Association forÌýAsian AmericanÌýStudies (2020-2022) and sits on the board of directors for the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI), the National Committee on US-China Relations, and Kundiman (an Asian American literature non-profit). Ho has co-edited two collection of essays,ÌýNarrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United StatesÌý(Ohio State University Press 2017) andÌýTeaching Approaches to Asian North American LiteratureÌý(Modern Language Association 2022), and she is the author of three scholarly monographs,ÌýConsumption and IdentityÌýinÌýAsian American Coming-of-Age NovelsÌý(Routledge 2005),ÌýRacial Ambiguity in Asian American CultureÌý(Rutgers University Press 2015), which won the South Atlantic Modern Language Association award for best monograph, andÌýUnderstanding Gish JenÌý(University of South Carolina Press 2015).Ìý

She has published in journals such asÌýModern Fiction Studies,ÌýJournal for Asian American Studies,ÌýAmerasia Journal, The Global South, Southern Cultures,ÌýJapan Forum,ÌýandÌýOxford American. Her next two academic projects are a breast cancer memoir and a monograph that will consider Asian Americans in the global south through the narrative of her maternal family’s immigration from Hong Kong to Jamaica to North America. In addition to her academic work, Ho is active in community engagement around issues of race and intersectionality, leading workshops on anti-racism and how to talk about race in our current political climate.

ÌýÌýEmail: jennifer.ho@colorado.eduÌý

ÌýÌýCU Interview: 'The arts and humanities give meaning to our lives' with Jennifer Ho