Patricia Chu
Title — Associate Professor of English
Address — Rome Hall, Room 754
Phone — (202) 994-1405
E-mail — pattychu@gwu.edu
Current Research
Patricia Pei-chang Chu teaches courses on contemporary Asian American literature and culture, women’s autobiography, and contemporary American literature. She is interested in the ways Asian American writers claim subjectivity and citizenship through writing. Her current work concerns narratives of “return,” representations of diasporic subjects’ journeys to their or the ancestors’ Asian homelands.
Education
Ph.D. in English literature, Cornell University, 1993
M.A. in English literature, Cornell University, 1989