About

Sharon Tran is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her research focuses on multiethnic American literatures and cultures with an emphasis on Asian American studies and gender studies. She is the author of Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of U.S. Empire (U Minnesota). Her other published writing can be found in American Quarterly, Signs, Contemporary Literature, the Journal of Asian American Studies, and MELUS.

Research interests

20th & 21st century multiethnic American literatures and cultures, Asian American literature, critical race studies, feminist theory, disability studies

Teaching interests

20th & 21st century multiethnic American literatures and cultures, Asian American literature, critical race studies, feminist theory, disability studies

Education

  • Ph D, EnglishUniversity of California, Los Angeles (2017)
    Between Asian Girls: Minor Feminisms and Sideways Critique
  • MA, EnglishUniversity of California, Los Angeles (2013)
  • BA, EnglishCity University of New York, Queens College (2010)