Background

Frank Cha is a Ph.D. candidate in the American Studies Program. His research interests include twentieth-century American literature, southern studies, visual media, and popular music. His dissertation will examine the ways in which Asian Americans in southern fiction and film utilize physical spaces to negotiate their Asian and southern identities.

Education

B.A., English, University of Virginia (2001)

M.A., English, University of Richmond (2004)

Courses Taught

AMST 202: "Cinema and Modernization of U.S. Culture, 1895-1950." - Teaching Assistant (Spring 2007)

AMST 470: Southern Migration Narratives- Instructor (Spring 2008)

ENGL 210: Asian American Memoirs (Spring 2009)

Publications and Presentations

Frank Cha. "Growing Up in the Margins: Asian American Children in Contemporary Southern Literature." Southern Quarterly (Spring 2009).

Frank Cha. "Asian Exclusion Act," Encyclopedia of Jim Crow. Greenwood Press, 2008.

Frank Cha. "Remapping the 38th Parallel: Korean Immigration in the Global South," Global South: Cavaliers in Paradise (Special Issue), Indiana UP, 2010 (forthcoming).

Frank Cha. "(Re)Visioning Home: Vietnamese Immigration and the Politics of Race/Place in the Global South." 2008 EoC Asian American Studies Conference, Storrs, CT.

Frank Cha. "Traversing the 'Broiler Belt' with Kid Gloves: Japanese American Labor and Southern Spaces in Cynthia Kadohata's Kira-Kira." 2008 SSSL Annual Conference, Williamsburg, VA.

Frank Cha. "Asian Homelands in a Foreign America: Global Identities and Renegotiating Southern Literary Spaces," Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA, December 2009.

Frank Cha. "Southern Geographies from a Global Perspective: Asian American Women Writers Tell About the South," Southern Women Writers Conference. Mount Berry, GA, September 2009.