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YUMI PAK
Department of English
California State University, San Bernardino
5500 University Parkway
San Bernardino, CA 92407
909.537.3809
ypak@csusb.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
C.Phil.
M.A.
B.A.
Literature, University of California, San Diego 2012
Literature, University of California, San Diego 2009
Literatures in English, University of California, San Diego 2009
Honors in Literature and Women’s Studies, University of California,
Santa Cruz 2004
APPOINTMENTS
2014 – present Assistant Professor, Department of English, California State
University, San Bernardino
2013 – 2014
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Africana Studies,
Hamilton College
2012 – 2013
Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Theatre and Dance,
University of California, Davis
PUBLICATIONS
“‘Jack Boughton has a wife and a child’: Generative Blackness in Marilynne
Robinson’s Gilead and Home.” Essay in This Life, This World: New Essays on
Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, Gilead and Home, edited by Jason
Stevens, Brill Press. Forthcoming.
Review of Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary
Identities, by Rychetta Watkins. Callaloo 36.3 (2013): 827 – 830.
Review of The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance, and
the Stage, by Soyica Diggs Colbert. Theatre Survey 54.2 (2013): 320 – 323.
“An Oracular Swan-song?: American Literary Modernism, Modernity and the
Trope of Lynching in Jean Toomer’s Cane.” Essay in Race and Displacement:
Nation, Migration, and Identity in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Maha
Marouan and Merinda Simmons, University of Alabama Press. 2013.
GRANTS &
AWARDS
Faculty Professional Development Grant. California State University, San
Bernardino. 2015 – 2016.
Faculty Development Group Grant. Hamilton College. 2013 – 2014.
Dean of Faculty’s Office Research Grant. Hamilton College. 2013.
One Quarter Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Literature. University of
California, San Diego. 2011.
Summer Research Grant, Department of Literature. University of California, San
Diego. 2011, 2010.
PRESENTATIONS
“‘Boys will be boys’: Black and Blue in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American
Lyric.” In Black Sites and Fugitive Visions. American Studies Association
Annual Conference. Toronto, Canada. October 2015.
Desiring, Writing, Thinking, Recording: The University in the Asian American
Literary Imagination. Co-seminar organizer. Cultural Studies Association
Annual Conference. Riverside, California. May 2015.
“‘Freedom is Near!!!’: Chester Himes, Insurrection and Failure.” In Black
Thought and the Popular. Co-seminar organizer. American Comparative
Literature Association Annual Conference. Seattle, Washington. March 2015.
“Emergence, Theft, Escape: Blackness in the Undercommons.” In Avant-Gardes,
Otherwise. Working group participant. American Society for Theatre Research
Annual Conference. Baltimore, Maryland. November 2014.
Speculative Archives: Imagining the Unthinkable in Tension with Neoliberalism
in the Post-American Century. Panel chair. American Studies Association
Annual Conference. Los Angeles, California. November 2014.
Pedagogy and Performance in the Undercommons. Seminar participant. Cultural
Studies Association Annual Conference. Salt Lake City, Utah. May 2014.
“Reading Subjectivity: Resisting Performance, Resisting Literature.” In Drama
Divisions: Today. Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Chicago,
Illinois. January 2014.
“‘Say, who owns this house?’: Communal Debt and National Ingratitude in Toni
Morrison’s Home.” In Default: Black Life and the Poetics of Nonpayment. Copanel organizer. American Studies Association Annual Conference. Washington,
D.C. November 2013.
“Carceral Blues: Reproducing the Familiar/Familial in Gayl Jones’
Corregidora.” In Doing Time: Being Black in the Carceral City. Co-panel
organizer. Performance Studies international Annual Conference. Stanford,
California. June 2013.
“Communal Debt, National Ingratitude and Toni Morrison’s Home.” Department
of African American and African Studies Brown Bag Lecture Series. University
of California, Davis. May 2013.
“Reading Subjectivity: Resistance, Performance, Literature.” Keynote paper.
Northern California Performance Platform. University of California, Davis. April
2013.
“‘A Being Outside Relationality’: Alternative Blackness in Chester Himes’
Yesterday Will Make You Cry.” In Queer Subjectivities, Queer
(Mis)representations. Panel chair. Cultural Studies Association Annual
Conference. Chicago, Illinois. March 2011.
Dissertation prospectus. University of California International Performance and
Culture Multicampus Research Group (UCIPC) Symposium. University of
California, Santa Barbara. June 2010.
“‘Me talkee Chinese talk’: Language, Over-Exaggeration and Passing in John
Steinbeck’s East of Eden.” UCLA Center for Performance Studies Annual
Graduate Conference. University of California, Los Angeles. April – May 2010.
“An Oracular Swan-song?: American Literary Modernism, Modernity and the
Trop of Lynching in Jean Toomer’s Cane.” In Race and Displacement.
University of Alabama Annual Symposium on English and American Literature.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama. October 2009.
“A Queer (Re)production: Desire, Natal Alienation and the Formation of Family
in Chester Himes’ Yesterday Will Make You Cry.” UCLA Queer Studies
Conference. University of California, Los Angeles. October 2008.
SELECTED
COURSES
ENG 441 Studies in a Major Author: James Baldwin, Chester Himes and Richard
Wright. Assistant Professor. California State University, San Bernardino.
ENG 339 African American Literature. Assistant Professor. California State
University, San Bernardino.
ENG 319 Studies in Literary Diversity: Black Women Write Social Justice.
Assistant Professor. California State University, San Bernardino.
ENG 303B Analysis and Writing of Prose Fiction. Assistant Professor. California
State University, San Bernardino.
AFRST 550S Senior Program. Visiting Assistant Professor. Visiting Assistant
Professor. Hamilton College.
AFRST/ENG 241 Performances of Passing, Performances of Resistance. Visiting
Assistant Professor. Hamilton College.
AFRST 234 Queers of Color Critique. Visiting Assistant Professor. Hamilton
College.
AFRST 101 Introduction to Africana Studies. Visiting Assistant Professor.
Hamilton College.
RESEARCH &
TEACHING
African American Literature; Literatures of the Black Diaspora; Black Studies;
Queer Theory and Queers of Color Critique; Performance Studies; Critical Race
and Gender Studies; U.S. Multi-ethnic Literatures; American Literature; Literary
Theory.
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICE
Manuscript review. Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. New
York University. 2014.
UNIVERSITY
SERVICE
Advisory Board. American Studies Program. California State University, San
Bernardino. 2014 – present.
Faculty participant. NY6 LGBTQIA Spectrum Conference. Hamilton College.
February 2014.
Faculty participant. Revolt? Reform? Rethink? The Posse Foundation Annual
PossePlus Retreat. Hamilton College. February 2014.
DEPARTMENT
SERVICE
Organizer. “Race and Speculative Fiction.” Department of Africana Studies
Dialogue Series. Hamilton College. October 2013.
STUDENT
ADVISING
Senior thesis advisor. Department of Africana Studies. Hamilton College. Spring
2014.
PROFESSIONAL
AFFILIATIONS
American Studies Association
American Society for Theatre Research
Critical Ethnic Studies Association
Cultural Studies Association
Modern Language Association
REFERENCES
Patrick Anderson, University of California, San Diego
pwa@ucsd.edu; 858.534.2356
Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies and Communication
Camille F. Forbes, University of California, San Diego
cfforbes@ucsd.edu; 858.534.2363
Associate Professor, Literature
Lisa Lowe, Tufts University
lisa.lowe@tufts.edu; 617.627.2051
Professor, English
Nigel Westmaas, Hamilton College
nwestmaa@hamilton.edu; 315.859.4269
Associate Professor, Africana Studies