Monica Chiu

Biographic Data

ID1484102
NAMEMonica Chiu
GIVEN NAMESMonica
FAMILY NAMEChiu
SIGNATURECHIU M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of New Hampshire at Manchester
ORCID0000-0002-3549-6777
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • A Pedagogical Guide to Tessa Hulls’s Feeding Ghosts

    Lan Dong, Monica ChiuARTICLEJournal of Asian American Studies2026

  • Debating the origins of American color comics between Saalburg’s Ting-Lings and Outcault’s Yellow Kid

    Monica ChiuARTICLEJournal of Graphic Novels & Comics2025

    Richard F. Outcault’s Yellow Kid is not the first American comics character to be printed in colour and serialised – despite decades of comics scholarship claiming it so. In brief asides or footnotes, they acknowledge that Charles Saalburg’s Orientalized Ting-Lings are the origins of America’s colour comic strips, but unfortunately give this strip cursory examination. This essay will expound on why the Ting-Lings remain understudied in published …

  • Diversity in Diaspora

    Mark Edward Pfeifer, Monica Chiu et al.EDITORBOOKDiversity in diaspora2013

    This book wrestles with Hmong Americans' inclusion into and contributions to Asian American studies, as well as to American history and culture and refugee, immigrant, and diasporic trajectories. It negotiates both Hmong American political and cultural citizenship, rewriting the established view of the Hmong as “new” Asian neighbors. Following a summary of more than three decades' of Hmong American experience and a demographic overview, chapters …

  • Writing the Ghetto

    Monica ChiuARTICLEJournal of Asian American Studies2011

    Reviewed by: Writing the Ghetto: Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave Monica Chiu (bio) Writing the Ghetto: Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave, by Yoonmee Chang. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2010. X + 238 pp. $45.00 cloth. ISBN 978-0-813-54801-2. In Writing the Ghetto: Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave, Yoonmee Chang discusses the notion of the ethnic enclave that …

  • Sequencing and Contingent Individualism in the Graphic, Postcolonial Spaces of Satrapi's Persepolis and Okubo's Citizen 13660

    Monica ChiuARTICLEEnglish Language Notes2008

    Research Article| September 01 2008 Sequencing and Contingent Individualism in the Graphic, Postcolonial Spaces of Satrapi's Persepolis and Okubo's Citizen 13660 Monica Chiu Monica Chiu University of New Hampshire [email protected] Monica Chiu is an associate professor of English at the University of New Hampshire where she teaches Asian American studies. She is the author of Filthy Fictions: Asian American Literature by Women (AltaMira 2004) a…

  • Economic Citizens

    Monica ChiuARTICLEJournal of Asian American Studies2008

    Reviewed by: Economic Citizens: A Narrative of Asian American Visibility Monica Chiu (bio) Economic Citizens: A Narrative of Asian American Visibility. By Christine So. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. In a 1915 Cecil B. DeMille silent film, Sessue Hayakawa plays Haka Arakau, the eponymous "Cheat," a Japanese merchant (he is a Burmese trader in the 1918 rerelease) who is obsessed with his collection of ivory Orientalia—statues, incens…

  • Asian American Literature in the International Context

    Monica ChiuARTICLEJournal of Asian American Studies2002

    The title of this collection prompts the question: Hasn't Asian American literature always been international given the Asian context of its Americanization and vice versa? Editors Rocío G. Davis and Sämi Ludwig illuminate the complicated terrain articulated by such an inquiry as they address internationalization in multiple ways in this volume: contributors hail from Europe and America, and they discuss works whose characters and themes are inte…

  • Postnational globalization and (en)gendered meat production in Ruth L. Ozeki's my year of meats

    Monica ChiuARTICLELIT Literature Interpretation…2001

    (2001). Postnational globalization and (en)gendered meat production in Ruth L. Ozeki's my year of meats. Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 99-128.

  • Frontiers

    Monica ChiuARTICLEJournal of Asian American Studies2001

    Journal of Asian American Studies - Volume 4, Number 2, June 2001

  • Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures

    Monica ChiuARTICLEMFS Modern Fiction Studies1999

    Reviewed by: Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures Monica Chiu Sheng-mei Ma. Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures. Albany: State U of New York P, 1998. 188 pp. Recent debates in Asian American studies include issues regarding denationalizing the field, addressed by Sau-ling Cynthia Wong, and monitoring the effects of globalization and an increased Asian American population, …

  • Motion, Memory, and Conflict in Chuang Hua's Modernist Crossings

    Monica ChiuARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…1999

    Motion, Memory, and Conflict in Chuang Hua's Modernist Crossings Get access Monica Chiu Monica Chiu University of New Hampshire, Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 24, Issue 4, December 1999, Pages 107–123, https://doi.org/10.2307/468176 Published: 01 December 1999

  • American Knees

    Monica Chiu, Shawn WongARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…1997

    Journal Article American Knees. Shawn Wong. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995. 240 pages. $21.00. Get access American Knees. Shawn Wong. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995. 240 pages. $21.00. Monica Chiu Monica Chiu University of Wisconsin — Eau Claire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 22, Issue 1, March 1997, Pages 132–134, https://doi.org/10.2307/468084 Published: 01 March 1997

  • The Rice Room

    Monica Chiu, Ben Fong-TorresARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…1995

    The Rice Room: Growing Up Chinese-American—From Number Two Son to Rock ‘n’ Roll. Ben Fong-Torres. New York: Hyperion, 1994. 260 pages. $22.95. Get access The Rice Room: Growing Up Chinese-American—From Number Two Son to Rock ‘n’ Roll. Ben Fong-Torres. New York: Hyperion, 1994. 260 pages. $22.95. Monica Chiu Monica Chiu Emory University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 20, Issue 1, March 1995, …