Event


Asian America Across the Disciplines in conversation with Weike Wang

Asian America Across the Disciplines Fall 2022

Dec 6, 2022 at

Fisher-Bennett Rm 419

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Author Weike Wang will join Dr. Eng's Introduction to Asian American Literature and Culture lecture to discuss her newest novel Joan is Okay.

Weike Wang is the author of CHEMISTRY (Knopf 2017) and JOAN IS OKAY (Random House 2022).  She is the recipient of the 2018 Pen Hemingway, a Whiting award and a National Book Foundation 5 under 35.  Her work has appeared in Ploughshares and The New Yorker, among other publications.  She is in the 2019 Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prizes. She earned her MFA from Boston University and her other degrees from Harvard. She currently lives in New York City and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University and Barnard College.

In-person event, open to Penn community. Please RSVP here!

ASAM will take pictures of this event for social media and archive proposes, please let us know in advance or during the event if you don't want to be photographed.