Timothy August
Assistant Professor
Biography
Timothy K. August is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Stony Brook University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Comparative Literature and his M.A. from The University of Western Ontario in Theory and Criticism. His research interests include: critical refugee studies, diasporic Vietnamese literature, postcolonial criticism, theories of food and eating, world literature, and Asian American studies.
He has has published, or has work forthcoming, in MELUS: Multiethnic Literature of the US, American Quarterly, Television & New Media, Mizna: Prose, Poetry, and Art Exploring Arab America, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, JAAS: Journal of Asian American Studies, and the Global Asian American Popular Cultures anthology. He is currently working on a book manuscript, The Refugee Aesthetic: Relocating Southeast Asian American Literature. A historical study of the politics involved in aestheticizing refugee experience, this book examines why a number of Southeast Asian American authors have recently embraced the refugee identity as a transformative position.