Jennifer Cho
Election
Position
Name
Jennifer Cho
Candidate statement
Jennifer Cho is a Lecturer in the Asian American Studies program at the University of Maryland at College Park. Her teaching interests span Asian/American literary and cultural production, gender and sexuality studies, Women of Color feminisms, and writing pedagogy. Jennifer’s book project aims to rescript literary expressions of grief and racial melancholy as potent, decolonizing responses to Asian American identity formation and cultural memory. Other works in progress explore how theories of multispecism and ecocritism help facilitate a uniquely Asian American feminist praxis with unexpected (re)orientations to the future. Jennifer’s work has been published in MELUS, Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, and Modern Language Studies.
If elected to the Contingent Faculty Representative board position with AAAS, Jennifer would advocate for other contingent faculty whose accesses to representation, care, and community have been limited by the precarious nature of their teaching positions. In this role, Jennifer would welcome the opportunity to serve as a liaison between other AAAS contingent faculty members and board representatives. Additionally, Jennifer looks forward to cultivating a more bonded and genuine sense of community across (and despite) different faculty ranks, working with the AAAS board to discover more openings for shared dialogue and professional mentorship.
If elected to the Contingent Faculty Representative board position with AAAS, Jennifer would advocate for other contingent faculty whose accesses to representation, care, and community have been limited by the precarious nature of their teaching positions. In this role, Jennifer would welcome the opportunity to serve as a liaison between other AAAS contingent faculty members and board representatives. Additionally, Jennifer looks forward to cultivating a more bonded and genuine sense of community across (and despite) different faculty ranks, working with the AAAS board to discover more openings for shared dialogue and professional mentorship.