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Mark Jerng Assistant Professor of English

Ph.D. Harvard University, 2006
B.A., English, Princeton University, 1998


Mark Jerng joined the UC Davis Faculty in 2006. His research interests include kinship studies, critical race theory, theories of multiculturalism, narrative and the novel, intersections between psychoanalysis and literature. He is completing a book manuscript that traces a genealogy of transracial adoption stories in American literature from the 1820's to the present, and working on a second project on a narrativity of need and human rights. He teaches courses on Asian American literature, critical multiculturalism, kinship and family, and human rights narratives.

Publications

• "Giving Form To Life: Cloning and Narrative Expectations of the Human," Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 6.2 (June 2008)
• "The Character of Race: Adoption and Individuation in William Faulkner's Light in August and Charles Chesnutt's The Quarry," Arizona Quarterly (forthcoming 2008)
  
• Recognizing the Transracial Adoptee: Adoption Life Stories and Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life" in MELUS: Journal for the Society for the Study of Multi-Ehtnic Literatures of the United States, volume 31, number 2 (Summer 2006).

Honors

• Harvard University Graduate Society Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2005-2006
• Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, 1999-2004
• Honorary Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, 1999
• Phi Betta Kappa, 1998