Literature Program, Dean of the College, Asian Studies Program, and American and Indigenous Studies Program Present
Impostor Syndrome:
Notes on Writing and Asian American Identity
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Hua Hsu, Associate Professor of English and American Studies, Vassar College and Staff Writer, The New Yorker
A consideration of how various Asian American writers and artists have wrestled with questions of authority and imposture, from thirties Chinatown authors to the first generations of authors who worked under the banner of "Asian American literature" in the sixties, from contemporary manifestations of "impostor syndrome" (wherein individuals doubt their own authority--a condition psychologists have deemed unusually prevalent among Asian American students) to my own work on memoir. Hua Hsu is an Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Vassar College, and a Staff Writer at the New Yorker. His first book, A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific, was published in 2015 by Harvard University Press. In 2022, Doubleday will publish Stay True, a memoir. He is currently working on an essay collection about identity and imposture called Impostor Syndrome. He serves on the boards of the Asian American Writers' Workshop and Critical Minded, an initiative to support cultural critics of color.
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Time: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Campus Center, Weis Cinema