Response to Kyla Wazana Tompkins, “On the Limits and Promise of New Materialist Philosophy,” published in Lateral 5.1. Huang reassesses the methodological implications of new materialisms by grappling with renewed attention to form in literary studies to articulate the varying processes by which racial difference becomes elided, rematerialized, and remade.
Articles by Michelle N. Huang
Michelle N. Huang is a dual-degree Ph.D. candidate in the Departments of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Her dissertation, defended in May 2017, explores posthumanist aesthetics in twentieth and twenty-first century Asian American literature and culture. Michelle’s articles have appeared in Twentieth-Century Literature, Journal of Asian American Studies, Amerasia, Journal of Medical Humanities, and online at Post45: Contemporaries. In Fall 2017, she will be Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University.