{"id":135061,"date":"2018-03-08T08:21:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T13:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=135061"},"modified":"2023-06-27T13:05:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:05:41","slug":"coveted-class-asian-american-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/03\/coveted-class-asian-american-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Coveted Class: Asian American Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fl-module fl-module-heading fl-node-5a83486166b64\" data-node=\"5a83486166b64\">\n<div class=\"fl-module-content fl-node-content\">\n<h3 class=\"fl-heading\"><span class=\"fl-heading-text\">The Instructor<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fl-module fl-module-rich-text fl-node-5a8348785e541\" data-node=\"5a8348785e541\">\n<div class=\"fl-module-content fl-node-content\">\n<div class=\"fl-rich-text\">\n<p>Cathy Schlund-Vials spent eight years living in England, part of growing up as the adopted daughter of a career U.S. Air Force chief master sergeant who rotated to military bases at home (Florida, Georgia, and Texas) and abroad. Considering herself \u201ca bit of an Anglophile\u201d when she decided to pursue a doctoral degree at UMass Amherst, Schlund-Vials planned to focus on British literature in her studies.<\/p>\n<p>After enrolling in a class titled \u201cHistory and Memory,\u201d an ethnic American literature course that was taught by the noted literary critic Joseph Skerrett, she found herself moving down a different path. \u201cIt was the first time I had a professor of color who taught literature by people of color,\u201d says Schlund-Vials, who was born in Thailand to a Cambodian mother and American father and was later adopted by a mixed-race couple, an American of German-Scots-Irish heritage and his Japanese wife. \u201cI finally saw myself in the literature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A professor of English, Schlund-Vials has served since 2010 as director of UConn\u2019s Asian and Asian American Studies Institute and also is president of the National Association for Asian American Studies. \u201cI try to make the experience of Asian American people relevant to non-Asian Americans,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article at <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2018\/02\/13\/asian-american-literature-engl-3212-aasi-3212\/\">magazine.uconn.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I try to make the experience of Asian American people relevant to non-Asian Americans,&#8217; says English professor and Asian American studies director Cathy Schlund-Vials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":135066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,2225,2306,2234],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1918],"class_list":["post-135061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clas","category-uconn-storrs","category-uconn-voices","category-university-life"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 05:40:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135069,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135061\/revisions\/135069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/135066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135061"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=135061"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=135061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}