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The daughter of a refugee father from China and an immigrant mother from Jamaica, whose own parents were immigrants from Hong Kong,ÌýJennifer Ho is the director of the Center for the Humanities & the Arts at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ, where she also holds an appointment as Professor in the Ethnic Studies department.Ìý

She is the past president of the Association forÌýAsian AmericanÌýStudies (2020-2022) and sits on the board of directors for the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI), the National Committee on US-China Relations, and the International Humanities Board of the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. Ho has edited three essay collections,ÌýNarrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United StatesÌý(Ohio State University Press 2017), Teaching Approaches to Asian North American LiteratureÌý(Modern Language Association 2022), and Global Anti-Asian Racism (Columbia University Press 2024) and is the author of three scholarly monographs,ÌýConsumption and IdentityÌýinÌýAsian American Coming-of-Age NovelsÌý(Routledge 2005),ÌýRacial Ambiguity in Asian American CultureÌý(Rutgers University Press 2015), which won the South Atlantic Modern Language Association award for best monograph, andÌýUnderstanding Gish JenÌý(University of South Carolina Press 2015).Ìý

She has published in journals such asÌýModern Fiction Studies,ÌýJournal for Asian American Studies,ÌýAmerasia Journal, The Global South, Southern Cultures,ÌýJapan Forum,ÌýandÌýOxford American, delivered keynote addresses at institutions such as Brown University, Smith University, and Michigan State University, been interviewed by outlets such as NBC, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and written pieces for The Colorado Times Recorder, CNN, and The Conversation. Her next two academic projects are a breast cancer memoir and a monograph that will consider Asian Americans in the global south through the narrative of her maternal family’s immigration from Hong Kong to Jamaica to North America. In addition to her academic work, Ho is active in community engagement around issues of race and intersectionality, leading workshops on anti-racism and how to talk about race in our current political climate.

ÌýÌýEmail: jennifer.ho@colorado.eduÌý

ÌýÌýÂ鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØInterview: 'The arts and humanities give meaning to our lives' with Jennifer Ho