Pacific New England Symposium
Join the Pacific New England Symposium for a workshop focused on publishing scholarship in Global Asian, Asian diaspora, and Asian American studies. Hosted by Northeastern University and co-sponsored by SCMS Asian/Pacific American Caucus.
About the panelists:
Mike Baccam is an Acquisitions Editor at the University of Washington Press specializing in Asian American studies, Western US history, environmental history, and critical ethnic studies.
Clare Mao is a literary agent at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, where she represents adult fiction and nonfiction. Her clients are poets, musicians, journalists, artists, bar owners, therapists, and more. In general, she is interested in writing about solidarity and progressive/radical politics, food, art, fashion, pop culture, new modes of creating community, and the environment. Most importantly, she likes to work with writers who are having fun.
Tina Chen is the director of Penn State’s Global Asias Initiative, founding editor of the award-winning journal Verge: Studies in Global Asias, and author of Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture. She is interested in speculative fictions, the imaginable ageography of Global Asias, and developing a more capaciously imagined scholarly praxis. You can read more about this in her latest project, Alien Form: Global Asias and Other Speculative Genres of Academic Labor.