Fordham News Features Fordham English Professor Stephen Sohn

Professor Sohn at April 25 inaugural lecture as Mullarkey Chair in Literature

Kelly Kultis recaps Professor Sohn’s inaugural lecture as Mullarkey Chair in Literature in a recently published article from Fordham News:

“How did COVID-19 impact Asian American literature and Asian American lives? That was the question Professor Stephen Hong Sohn explored in his inaugural lecture as the newly installed Thomas F. X. and Theresa Mullarkey Chair in Literature.

“‘Asian American literature always responds to the historical moment, whether it’s Japanese American incarceration, whether it’s 9/11, Asian American writers always want to remind us that we shouldn’t be so quick to judge people based upon how they look,’ Sohn said at the April 25 installation ceremony…”

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