SUE SHON
955 N. Alameda Blvd. # ½
Las Cruces, NM 88005
Email: [email protected]
Website: sueshon.com
Cell: 267.312.1846
EMPLOYMENT
Visiting Assistant Professor of English, New Mexico State University (2017-present)
EDUCATION
Ph.D., English, University of Washington (2015)
M.A., Art History, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2008)
B.A. cum laude, English and Fine Arts, Minor in Asian American Studies, University of
Pennsylvania (2003)
AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS
President’s Contingent Faculty Travel Award, The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic
Literature in the United States 31st Annual Conference, 2017
Alvord Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Washington, 2014-2015
Society of Scholars, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, 2014-2015
Allan and Mary Kollar Endowed Fellowship, University of Washington, 2014-2015
Public Scholarship Community Event Grant, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of
Washington, 2014
Joseph and Yetta Blau Award for Excellence in Research, Simpson Center for the Humanities,
University of Washington, 2013-2014
Public Scholarship Fellow, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington,
2012
American Studies Dissertation Prospectus Fellowship, Simpson Center for the Humanities,
University of Washington, 2010
Trustee Scholarship Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2006-2008
Stone Summer Theory Institute Graduate Fellow, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2007
PUBLICATIONS
“The Skyscraper’s Unseeing Eyes: Louis Sullivan, Nella Larsen, and Racial Formalism,”
American Literature, forthcoming September 2017
“Runaway Slave Portraiture, Aesthetic Judgment, and the Emergence of Racial Visuality,”
article in progress for submission in Fall 2017
Visual Literacy and the Making of Racial Sense, monograph in progress
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Pedagogies Against Right-Wing Ideologies: Strategies in an Era of Trump, Modi, and
Duterte,” Roundtable Participant. American Studies Association, Chicago, IL, November 9,
2017
“Runaway Slave Portraiture and the Emergence of Racial Blackness,” Panel Chair and Paper.
The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature in the United States, Cambridge, MA,
April 30, 2017
“Sense and the Skyscraper: Race and Space in Nella Larsen’s Passing,” Paper. American
Ethnic Studies 30th Anniversary Symposium, Department of American Ethnic Studies,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, May 6, 2016
“Racial Formalism,” Paper. American Comparative Literature Association, Seattle, WA,
March 28, 2015
“Making Sense: Runaway Slave Portraiture and the Common Sense of Vision,” Paper.
American Studies Association, Los Angeles, CA, November 7, 2014
“Reading Race, Publishing Vision: Black Portraiture and the Work of Glenn Ligon,” Paper.
Critical Ethnic Studies Association, Chicago, IL, September 20, 2013
“Countervisual Aesthetics in the Work of Glenn Ligon,” Paper. American Comparative
Literature Association, Toronto, Canada, April 6, 2013
“Runaway Slave Portraiture in Contemporary Art,” Paper. Graduate Art History Public
Symposium, University of Washington & Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, May 17, 2013
“Spike Lee and Global Film Criticism,” Pre-circulated dossier for discussion at the Stone
Summer Theory Institute, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, July 19, 2007
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CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Xenology: Drawing in Response to Octavia Butler’s Dawn (Exhibition and Catalog) at Wild
Seed: The 2nd Annual Octavia E. Butler Birthday Tribute, Jaam Rek, Seattle, WA
July 12, 2014
Jimmies (Site-Specific Outdoor Installation), Philadelphia, PA
June 2008
Who’s Your ______? (Exhibition), Gallery 2 and Project Space, Chicago, IL
December 8, 2006-January 13, 2007
Converging Patterns (Exhibition), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
December 8-18, 2006
Contours & Vectors (Exhibition), Fox Gallery, University of Pennsylvania
April–May 2004
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Courses Taught:
New Mexico State University
Department of English
English 469/569 (Advanced Studies in American Literature): “The Afterlives of Slavery in
American Literature and Visual Culture,” Spring 2017
English 244 (Literature and Culture): “Literature in the World: Nation, Empire, and Racial
Capitalism,” Spring 2017
English 112 (Perspectives on Film): “Introduction to Film Studies,” Spring 2017
New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury and Manhattan Campuses
Interdisciplinary Studies Program
Interdisciplinary Studies 101 (Foundations of Inquiry): “Critical Approaches to
Citizenship, Nationalism, and Election 2016,” Fall 2016
University of Washington
Department of English
English 200 (Reading Literary Forms): “Race and Media: Image, Text, Sound,” Spring
2016
English 297 (Writing in the English Major), Winter 2016 and Fall 2015
English 200 (Reading Literary Forms): “Race in 20th & 21st-Century Literature & Culture,”
Spring 2012
English 250 (Introduction to American Literature: 1856-Present), “Problematizing
America,” Fall 2011
English 297 (Writing in the English Major), Winter 2010
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University of Washington
Department of English, Expository Writing Program
English 111 (Composition in Literature):
“Race and Media Aesthetics,” Spring 2016
“Introduction to African American Literature,” Spring 2013
“Introduction to Asian American Literature,” Winter 2013
“Nation and Citizenship,” Fall 2012
“Race and Visual Culture,” Spring 2011
“19th-Century American Literature,” Fall 2010
“Race and (Re)production,” Spring 2010
“The Films of Spike Lee,” Fall 2009 and Winter 2010
English 131 (Expository Composition):
“Writing and the University,” Summer 2013
“Language and Power,” Academic Year 2008-2009
Antioch University, Seattle
Center for Teaching and Learning, Writing Program
Writing 406 (Inquiry and Research), Academic Years 2015-2016, 2014-2015, and 20132014
Bellevue College
Academic Success Center, Reading Lab
English 080/180 (Introduction to College-Level Reading), Academic Year 2013-2014
Teaching Assistantships:
University of Washington, Department of American Ethnic Studies
African American Studies 220 (African American Film Studies, Prof. Sonnet Retman),
Winter 2014
University of Washington, Department of English
English 301 (Introduction to the English Major, Prof. Eva Cherniavsky), Winter 2012
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Art History and the Gene Siskel Film
Center Public Lecture Program
Art History 3977 (African American Auteurs, Prof. Jacqueline Stewart), Spring 2007
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism
Art History 1001(Ancient to Modern Art and Architecture, Lecturer Daniel Merkle), Fall
2007
Writing and Research Advisor:
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
The Writing Center, Fall 2016
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Academic and Professional Service:
Scholars Against Systemic Racism, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Committee Member, 2015-2016
School of Applied Psychology, Counseling & Family Therapy and Doctoral Program in
Psychology, Antioch University, Seattle
Writing Assessor, 2015-2016
Academic Success Center, Reading Lab, Bellevue College
Reading Workshop Facilitator, Academic Year 2013-2014
Graduate Student Organization, Department of English, University of Washington
Officer, 2010-2011
Research Assistant for Prof. Gillian Harkins, Department of English, University of
Washington, 2010
University of Pennsylvania, Office of Undergraduate Admissions, Secondary School
Committee, Seattle, WA
Interviewer, 2011-2013
City of Chicago, Public Art Program, Chicago IL
Graduate Curatorial Assistant, September-December 2007
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Comparative Literature Association, 2013-present
American Studies Association, 2013-present
Critical Ethnic Studies Association, 2013-present
Modern Language Association, 2012-present
National Center for Institutional Diversity Scholars Network, 2017-present
The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature in the United States, 2017-present
REFERENCES
Alys Weinbaum, Associate Professor
Department of English
University of Washington
[email protected]
Gillian Harkins, Associate Professor
Department of English
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University of Washington
[email protected]
Stephanie Smallwood, Associate Professor
Department of History
University of Washington
[email protected]
James Tweedie, Associate Professor
Department of Comparative Literature
University of Washington
[email protected]
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