Vox Jo Hsu, MFA and PhD (they/them)
Assistant Professor, Department of Rhetoric and Writing
This conversation took place on September 29, 2023 at the Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Texas in Austin, TX. At the time of recording, CAAS was located in Bellmont 220.
Additional Resources
Han, Arar, and John Y. Hsu, eds. Asian American X: an Intersection of 21st century Asian American Voices. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004.
Hsu, V. Jo. Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2022.
Nguyen, Viet Thanh. “Viet Thanh Nguyen on the Need to Recognize Coexisting Truths.” Interview by Spencer Bailey. Time Sensitive. May 1, 2024. https://vietnguyen.info/2024/time-sensitive-viet-thanh-nguyen-on-the-need-to-recognize-coexisting-truths.
Young, Morris, and LuMing Mao. Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2008.
Zhang, Wanhong, et al. Disability, Sexuality, and Gender in Asia: Intersectionality, Human Rights, and the Law. Milton: Taylor & Francis, 2023.
Asian Relations is a series of conversations recorded in the Fall 2023 semester at the Center for Asian American Studies (CAAS) and the Asian American Resource Center (AARC) in Austin, TX. Led by CCI researcher Dr. Allison Kim (she/her), these conversations follow the stories of nine UT students, faculty, staff, and alumni concerning their identification with and connection to the AANHPI communities. This research-based project is conversational in tone, leaning into subjective experience and drawing out the relational moments between individuals relational moments between individuals.
