Authoring Identity, Professor Josephine Park featured in Omnia Magazine
May 10, 2024
Josephine Park, School of Arts and Sciences President’s Distinguished Professor of English, discusses the way literature has influenced the experience of being Asian American in the United States.
“Literature was always at the forefront of American movements for racial justice,” Park says. “I tell my students, for populations like Asian Americans who were long deemed statistically insignificant, if you don’t have a quantitative significance, you want qualitative expression. Almost nothing is more important than individual expression, individual stories. For movements that are trying to capture minority identity, that kind of expressive capability is critical.”