AAS 390

Spring 2026

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Credit: 3 hours.

May be repeated in the same or subsequent terms to a maximum of 6 hours.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
69316
Lecture-Discussion
DC
4:00PM -5:20PM
MW
325 David Kinley Hall
Geng, C
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/20/26-05/06/26
Section Title:
Asian Am Crit Mental Health
Section Info:
What does it mean to be unwell? Following the COVID pandemic, discourses surrounding Asian American mental health has gained unprecedented attention. In dear elia, scholar and activist mimi khúc theorizes a “pedagogy of unwellness” that critiques clinical and institutional understandings of mental health and draws from marginalized systems of knowledge to formulate a critical arts approach to Asian American unwellness. In this course, we will center discourses in Ethnic Studies, Disability Studies, Gender Studies, and Mad Studies to examine works of Asian American literature, media and other forms of cultural production. Reading texts such as Esmé Wenjun Wang’s essays, The Collected Schizophrenias, Tessa Hulls’ graphic novel, Feeding Ghosts, and Annelise Chen’s self-help memoir, So Many Olympic Exertions, we will discuss key issues surrounding Asian American wellness and unwellness. We will end with a reflection on our own communities and our collective responses to the mental health crises of the present.Topic: Literatures of the Displaced. Meets with AAS 390 and GWS 395. In this course we will examine an array of literary texts that focus on or intersect with narratives of Latina/o migration. In addition to Latina/o narratives of migration, we will analyze Asian-American, African-American, and Indigenous stories of displacement, (im)migration, and settlement. Through comparative analysis, we will discuss the various intersections between and divergences among these texts, paying particular attention to the shared histories the texts evidence. Our goal is to form interpretive arguments that address the ways in which the texts negotiate ideas about the nation, nation building, and national belonging.
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