Department of English
Choa Choi
B.A. International Relations and Comparative Literature, Underwood International College, Yonsei University, M.A. English, Yonsei University, M.A. Comparative Literature, Penn State
Research Interests
20th-Century and Contemporary, U.S. Multiethnic Literatures and Cultures, Post-45, History and Theory of the Novel, Asian/Asian American/Asian Diaspora Studies, Latino/a/x Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Relational Ethnic Studies, Postcolonial Studies, History and Theory of the Novel, World/Global/Global Novel , Sports and Literature, Translation
Biography
Choa Choi is a PhD candidate in English. She is primarily interested in the way literary objects and expressive cultures represent, theorize, and re-imagine movement, motion, body, and embodiment. Her dissertation project, tentatively titled Togetherness, focuses on the politico-aesthetics of post/sentimentalism, embodied affectivity, and modes of collective inhabitance.
Teaching
As Teaching Assistant
ENGL 0100 Devils, Demons, and Do-Gooders, Fall 2026
ENGL 0100 The Simple Art of Murder, Spring 2024
ENGL 0101 America Dreaming, Fall 2023
As Instructor
ENGL 0200 We the People: American Literatures of Community, Spring 2025
ENGL 0900 Critical Reading and Writing I: The Academic Essay, Fall 2024