Caroline Yang

Candidate statement

Caroline H. Yang is an associate professor in English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She received her B.A. from UC Berkeley, M.A. from Boston College, and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle, all in English. Prior to UMass, she taught in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she began as a postdoctoral fellow. Her research and teaching interests include Asian American literature and history, African American literature, transnational American studies, and critical race studies. She is the author of The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery: The Chinese Worker and the Minstrel Form (2020), and is currently working on a second book, tentatively titled The Korean War in Black America.

Having attended her first AAAS conference in 2003 as a graduate student, Caroline looks forward to giving back to the Association if elected as the New England/Central and Eastern Canada Representative. In addition to serving on standing and ad hoc committees, she will contribute to making the annual meetings a vibrant and welcoming space of community and connection for all members.