Ying

Xu

University of New Mexico

1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Albuquerque, NM 87106

325 Cardenas Dr. NE

Albuquerque, NM 87108
(505) 814-8162
yingxu@unm.edu

EDUCATION
Ph.D.

English, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Summer 2012

Dissertation Title: Across Lands: Double-Consciousness and Negotiating
Identities in Early Chinese American Literature, 1847-1910s
Analyzing a medley of autobiographical writings (testimonies, newspaper and
periodical writings, translation, and autobiographies) by five immigrant writers
of Chinese descent, my dissertation, Across Lands: Double Consciousness
and Negotiating Identities in Early Chinese American Literature, 1847-1910s,
examines the formation of Chinese American identity and literature through
investigating the relations between self and community in terms of double
consciousness and the authors across lands strategic performance of Chinese
Americanness in the late nineteenth century and the turn of the twentieth
century.

M.A.

English, Sichuan University, China, 2001

Master Thesis: A Converging Circle of Life and Death: Existentialism and
Re-appropriating John Updikes Rabbit Tetralogy

B.A.

English, Sichuan University, China, 1995

EMPLOYMENT
2014- Jul. 2015 Program Coordinator, New Mexico Asian Family Center,
Albuquerque, New Mexico
2012 - present Term Faculty, Department of English, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, New Mexico
2013 - present Adjunct Faculty, School of Communication, Humanities, and Social
Sciences, and Central New Mexico Community College, Albuquerque, New
Mexico
2005 2012 Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, New Mexico

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2001-2005 Assistant Professor of English, College of Yitong, Chongqing University of
Posts and Telecom, Chongqing, China
1995-1998 Lecturer of English, Department of English, Nanchang University, Nanchang,
Jiangxi, China
PUBLICATIONS
Xu, Ying, ed. The Ghostly, the Haunted, and the Supernatural in English Literature.
Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. 2015. Forthcoming.
---. Chinese Exclusion Act. Oxford Bibliographies: American Literature. Oxford
University Press. 2014. <www.oxfordbibliographies.com>. 2015. Forthcoming.
---. Edith Maude Eaton. Oxford Bibliographies: American Literature. Oxford
University Press. 2014. <www.oxfordbibliographies.com>.
---. Additions to the Mark Twain Library. American Literary Realism 46.2
(2014): 187-8.
---. : . [The Chronicler of
Middling, Hidden, Troubled America: John Updike and his Rabbit Novels.]
[Journal of Chongqing University of Posts and Telecom] 69.5
(2005): 729-732.
---, and Zhou Hongmei. How Acculturation Affects Translating.
[North Forum] 188.6 (2004): 68-71.
---. . [A Study on Cultural Background
and Untranslatability in Lewis Carrolls Alice in Wonderland.]
[The Forum of Foreign Languages, Literature and Culture] 4 (2001):
161-167.
TRANSLATIONS
Xu, Ying, and Michael Swiertz, trans. Four Poems from Shuting, the Misty Poet. [
.Blue Mesa Review 7 (2006): 123-30.
Xu, Ying, trans. . Laguna Woman. Leslie Marmon Silko. Tucson, AZ.:
Flood Plain Press, 1974.
---. . Ceremony. Leslie Marmon Silko. Penguin Books, 1977. (in progress).

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Chaired the Charles Dickens Panel at RMMLA. RMMLA, Boise, Idaho, Oct. 9-11, 2014.
That Was My Place Henceforth He Lived The Construction of the Gentleman and the
Return of the Convict in Dickenss Great Expectations. RMMLA, Boise, Idaho, Oct. 911, 2014.
The Danger of a Double Life in Jaspers Smoking of Opium: The Construction of an
Imperial Rhetoric in Charles Dickenss The Mystery of Edwin Drood. RMMLA,
Vancouver, Washington, Oct.10-12, 2013.
A Chinese Serpent Princess: Transculturation and Wong Chin Foos Reconstruction of
Chinese Women in Late-Nineteenth Century America. RMMLA, Boulder, Colorado,
Oct. 11-13, 2012.
Appropriating the Myth of Madame Butterfly: Passing and Abjection in Winnifred
Eaton/Onoto Watannas A Japanese Nightingale (1901) and Me: A Book of
Remembrance (1915). The 4th Annual Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference,
Albuquerque, NM, April 20-21, 2012.
Mrs. Spring Fragrance and a Japanese Nightingale: Passing and the Abject Body in
Edith Eaton and Winnifred Eaton. 2012 AAAS Conference, Washington D. C., April
11-14, 2012.
A Body of Troubled Site/Sight: Resignifying Double Consciousness in Yung Wings
My Life in China and America. RMMLA, Albuquerque, NM, October 2010.
The Inauthentic Native: Double Consciousness and Performantivity in Yung
Wings My Life in China and America. The 14th Anthropology Symposium. University
of New Mexico, March 2010.
Why Not a Chinese Woman Write Books about the Americans: The Construction of
Gender and Ethnicity in Sui Sin Fars Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings. The
13th Anthropology Symposium. University of New Mexico, March 2009.
She Was Not Married to Him and It Must Be So: Ending and Reality in Olive
Schreiners The Story of an African Farm. The 16th Annul British Women Writers.
Indiana University, March 2008
Sui Sin Fars Performative Writing: Racial and Ethnic Construction in Mrs. Spring
Fragrance and Other Writings. The 2008 Southwest Symposium. University of New
Mexico, April 2008.
Frankensteins Gothic Monster and Shelleys Dilemma: Mary Shelleys Frankenstein.
University of New Mexico. 2006.

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TEACHING EXPERIENCES
(UNM=University of New Mexico; CNM= Central New Mexico Community College)
English 315: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature: The Outlaw and The Outlawed
in American Literature, Spring 2015, UNM
The course examines the nature, function, and context of the outlaw and the
outlawed (people, spaces, and practices) and its literary representation in
American literature. We will study the transcultural, transgendered and
interdisciplinary manifestations and the different literary, political, sociohistorical, and media contexts in which the outlaw/ed may be encountered and
represented. Topics covered include western stories, frontier conflicts, male
subjectivity, sexuality, homosexuality, immigration acts, bodies of law and the
outlawed bodies and texts, and passing and identity negotiation.
English 220: Expository Writing: The Ghostly, the Haunted, and the Supernatural in
English Literature, Fall 2014, UNM
The advanced writing course is designed for students who wish to increase their
skills in gathering, reporting, interpreting information, and making cogent
argument based on solid evidence. The course examines the ghostly presence and
supernatural elements in English literature aiming to help students understand
how the fantastic elements function in relation to the specific social contexts that
produced them.
Online English 220: Expository Writing: The Ghostly, the Haunted, and the Supernatural
In English Literature. Fall 2014, UNM
The advanced online writing course is designed for students who wish to increase
their skills in gathering, reporting, interpreting information, and making cogent
argument based on solid evidence. The course examines the ghostly presence and
supernatural elements in English literature aiming to help students understand
how the fantastic elements function in relation to the specific social contexts that
produced them.
Online English 110: Accelerated Composition, Fall 2014, UNM
The course focuses on analyzing rhetorical situations and responding with
appropriate genres and technologies. It helps students develop reading and
writing skills they will need in their own fields of study and other personal and
professional contexts.
WMST 325: Asian American Women: Race, Class, and Feminisms, Spring 2011, UNM
The cross-listed course was the first Asian American Studies offered at UNM.
The course employs multiple approaches, including literary criticism, sociology,
anthropology, feminism, and multicultural scholarship that crosses and
reexamines boundaries, to explore the diversity of Asian American womens
lives shaped by race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and region.

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English 297: Survey of Later American Literature, Spring 2010, UNM

The survey course covers major trends and writers in American literature from the
end of the Civil War to the present. Students examine the shift in the later
nineteenth century from Romanticism to Realism and Naturalism and the
twentieth-century experiments of Modernism and Post-Modernism.
English 296: Survey of Earlier American Literature, Fall 2009, UNM
The course offers an introduction to American literature from its beginnings to the
Civil War through examining Native American stories, European exploration
writings, the writings of Colonial American, and the literature of the New
Republic. Students focus on the close reading of personal, regional, and national
literatures set within their historical, geographical, cultural, and intellectual
contexts, as they explore provocative questions about what makes these
literatures uniquely American.
English 250: Analysis of Literature: American Women Writers, Spring 2014, UNM
The course traces the multiple traditions of American womens writing and
examines the ways in which various women writers question, resist, subvert, and
revise gender roles and the construction of canon. Students learn how to apply
various critical approaches to different genres, to recognize various literary
devices and forms, and to critique the way literature is linked to the social,
cultural, and historical transformations in which it participates.
WMST 200: Introduction to WMST: Historical and Social Perspectives, Fall 2010, UNM
The course provides an in-depth survey of women and gender studies as an
interdisciplinary filed of knowledge. Students learn to use knowledge, strategies,
and insights acquired in the course to reexamine the familiar issues in the world.
Students also examine the ways race, class, ethnicity, national origin, and other
facets of social identity intersect with gender.
English 150: The Study of Literature: Bad Romance and Re-Imaging America, Fall
2010, UNM
English 150 is an introduction to the study and appreciation of literature and
literary forms, emphasizing how critical understanding of literary genres,
techniques, conventions, and criticism can enhance our appreciation of literature
and its themes. The course focuses on bad romance in American literature in
relation to the theme of imagining America by examining a variety of texts by
Nathaniel Hawthorn, Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, Henry James, Earnest
Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Louise Erdrich.
English 2219: Technical Communication, Fall 2013, CNM
The course focuses on how to write and design documents found in the workplace.
Students create documents based on the needs of their readers by considering the
type of research to conduct as well as the appropriate structure writing style, and
page layout to use. Assignments include creating professional resumes, letters,

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memos, procedures, manuals, presentations, proposals, and analytical reports.
English 1119: Technical Writing, Spring 2013, CNM
The course emphasizes writing in industry, research laboratories, business and
other professional settings. Students study and write business correspondence,
memoranda, reports, proposals, and manuals.
English 102: Argumentative Writing, 2006-present, UNM
English 102 emphasizes academic writing, research, and argumentation. Student
design and research projects of their own and learn to summarize, synthesize,
evaluate, and integrate secondary sources to support their arguments.
Students build on the rhetorical approaches introduced in English 101 by
continuing to analyze rhetorical situations; they also extend their understanding
of how writing and other modes of communication work together for rhetorical
purposes.
English 101: Expository Writing, 2005-present, UNM
The course helps student develop reading, writing, and critical thinking skills and
prepare them for their academically diverse programs, writing styles, audiences,
and professional needs. It develops students skills in finding and evaluating
information, in planning effective writing, and in communicating and presenting
information successfully.
Students learn to analyze rhetorical situations in terms of audience, contexts,
purpose, mediums, and technologies and apply this knowledge to their reading
and writing.
English 1101: Introduction to College Writing, Summer 2013, CNM
The course introduces students to many kinds of writing that are used in academic
and professional situations. English 1101 is an expository writing course with
readings designed to provide topics for discussion and writing and to improve
students accurate uses of language. The course emphasizes learning how to
organize and support ideas clearly, fully, and interestingly in written form.
Students review English grammar, usage, and punctuation in the context of
college writing.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2012

Research Travel Grant, English Department, UNM ($500)

2012

The Student Research Allocations Committee Grant, Graduate and

Professional Student Association, UNM ($400)

2012

Research Project Travel Grant, Office of Graduate Studies, UNM ($500)

2011

Arms Fellowship at University of New Mexico ($8,000)

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2009

Arms Fellowship at University of New Mexico ($3,200)

2007

Best Graduate Paper Prize, Feminist Research Institute, UNM ($200)

2007

Irene B. Kinball Scholarship, English Department, UNM ($1,000)

2006

Irene B. Kinball Scholarship, English Department, UNM ($1,000)

REFERENCES
Alemn, Jesse. Professor of English, University of New Mexico, jman@unm.edu,
(505) 277-6347. Department of English, MSC03 2170, 1 University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Bounkeua, Kay. Director of New Mexico Asian Family Center, kay@nmafc.org,
(505) 363-7193. 128 Quincy St. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87108
Desai, Christina. Associate Professor, University of New Mexico, cdesai@unm.edu,
(618) 303-5642. University Libraries, MSC05 3020, 1 University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Houston, Gail. Professor of English, University of New Mexico, ghouston@unm.edu,
(505) 270-4558. Department of English, MSC03 2170, 1 University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Scharnhorst, Gary. Professor of English, University of New Mexico, gscharnh@aol.com,
(505) 730-1228, Department of English, MSC03 2170, 1 University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Smith-Hawkins, Paula. Associate Dean of CHSS (School of Communication,
Humanities, & Social Sciences), Central New Mexico Community
College, psmithhawkins@cnm.edu, (505) 977-5961. School of Communication,
Humanities, & Social Sciences, Central New Mexico Community College, 525
Buena Vista Dr. SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106