Jina B. Kim

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Jina B. Kim

Visiting Scholar in Race and Ethnicity in America, CSREA, Fall 2021 Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature and of the Study of Women and Gender, Smith College

Jina B. Kim is Assistant Professor of English and the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. She teaches and writes about critical disability studies, feminist- and queer-of-color critique, and contemporary ethnic American literature. She is currently at work on a book manuscript titled Dreaming of Infrastructure: Crip-of-Color Imaginaries after the US Welfare State, which examines women- and queer-of-color writing in the afterlife of 1996 U.S. welfare reform. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Signs, Social Text, MELUS, American Quarterly, Disability Studies Quarterly, The South Atlantic Quarterly, and The Asian American Literary Review.