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Pacharee Sudhinaraset

Assistant Professor

Education

2013 Ph.D. in English Literature and Language, University of Washington

2007 M.A. in English Literature and Language, University of Washington 

2002 B.A. in English Literature and Language, University of California, Irvine

Bio

Pacharee Sudhinaraset (posh-ah-ree sood-ee-nara-set) is Assistant Professor of English at New York University. Her current book project, Worlds at the End: Los Angeles and the Apocalyptic Revelations of Women of Color Cultural Politics, studies women of color literary, visual, and intellectual output in the post-1990s period to rethink the 20th century not as the apex of modern progress but as a relentless proliferation of competing apocalyptic visions and specters. Worlds at the End argues that women of color writers illuminate how 20th century anxieties about the end times— fueled by ecological destruction, catastrophic warfare, threats of nuclear annihilation and mass extinction— are in fact products of the racial, sexual, and gendered hierarchies of capitalist modernity. In this project, Los Angeles, California, a place at once central to capitalist geopolitics and constantly threatened by forest fire, earthquake, and racial injustice, arises as a powerful matrix for apocalyptic revelations that unveil modernity's subjugated histories.

Publications

  • “Asian American Literary Studies and the Challenge of Utopia,” Asian American Literature in Transition, Volume 4 (1992—Present), edited by Betsy Huang and Victor Mendoza (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2020)
  • “‘We are not an organically city people’: Black Modernity and the Afterimages of Julie Dash’s Critical Utopia,” The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research, Volume 48, 2018, Issue 3: Pragmatic Utopias, pp. 46-60.
  • “Hope in Dystopian Times: In the Heart of the Valley of Love and the Limits of Cold War Racial Liberal Ocularcentrism,” American Quarterly, Volume 68, Number 4, December 2016, pp. 883-906.