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Northeastern University

716 Columbus Place, 6th Floor, Boston, MA, Boston

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Join the Pacific New England Symposium for a workshop focused on publishing scholarship in Global Asian, Asian diaspora, and Asian American studies. Hosted by Northeastern University and co-sponsored by SCMS Asian/Pacific American Caucus.

 

About the panelists:

Mike Baccam:

Mike Baccam is an Acquisitions Editor at the University of Washington Press specializing in Asian American studies, Western US history, environmental history, and critical ethnic studies.

 

Clare Mao:

Clare Mao is a literary agent at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, where she represents adult fiction and nonfiction. Clare was born and raised in Queens, NY, went to college in the Midwest, and now lives in Brooklyn. Prior to joining Greenburger in 2023, she worked at Europa Content and Janklow & Nesbit. Her clients are poets, musicians, journalists, artists, bar owners, therapists, and more, and include Johanna Hedva, Sally Wen Mao, Mimi Zhu, Fariha Roisin, and Simon Wu. In fiction, she is drawn to literary and upmarket fiction, and in nonfiction, she represents mostly narrative nonfiction such as memoirs or essay collections, as well as illustrated projects like cookbooks and decks. Some notable titles of the past few years include The Impossible City by Karen Cheung, a memoir about growing up in Hong Kong during the years of the handover, Negatives by Amy Fleisher Madden, a photographic archive of emo music, Trickster’s Journey by Jia Sung, a tarot deck based on Chinese mythology and Buddhist iconography, and American Bulk by Emily Mester, an essay collection that examines American consumer culture through family history.

Across genres, she is drawn to writers who are curious, thoughtful, and critical, who have expansive interests and concerns including and outside of writing, with a particular affinity for those writing across disciplines. In general, she is interested in writing about solidarity and progressive/radical politics, food, art, fashion, pop culture, new modes of creating community, and the environment. Most importantly, she likes to work with writers who are having fun.

 

Tina Chen:

Tina Chen is the director of Penn State’s Global Asias Initiative, founding editor of the award-winning journal Verge: Studies in Global Asias, and author of Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture. She is interested in speculative fictions, the imaginable ageography of Global Asias, and developing a more capaciously imagined scholarly praxis. Over the last decade, she has been conceptualizing Global Asias as/through “alien form,” an approach that leverages the structural dissonances of generic frictions to help us reimagine the genres of scholarly labor even as they paradoxically operate to remake generic distinctions as we know them. You can read more about this in her latest project, Alien Form: Global Asias and Other Speculative Genres of Academic Labor.

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