Ching-In Chen
Associate Professor
Ph.D, English (with concentration in Creative Writing; certificate in Women鈥檚 Studies), University of Wisconsin鈥擬ilwaukee
M.F.A., Writing for the Performing Arts and Creative Writing, University of California, Riverside
B.A., English and International Relations, Tufts University
Email: chingin@uw.edu
Website:
Teaching
I approach my classes as experimental laboratories where students are invited to explore various approaches and lineages to actively construct their own knowledges, with particular commitment to historically underrepresented voices and stories. I believe in pedagogy which enables students to test out their critical and creative thinking through concrete engagement with their peers and with those active in the field and wider community, helping them acquire important skills which will last beyond the space of our classroom.
Recent Courses Taught
BISIA 310 Creative Writing: Poetry
BISIA 311 Creative Writing: Prose
BISIA 401 Literary & Arts Journal
BISIA 410 Advanced Creative Writing Workshop
BCWRIT 510 Poetics Seminar: Cultural Change and Writing
Research/Scholarship
I am a cross-genre writer with a background in community organizing, specifically in Asian American communities in coalition with other communities of color and LGBTQIA* communities. My work participates in a lineage of documentary and speculative poetics, which uses documents and other historical evidence as material from which to imagine under-examined lives and investigate how various communities interact and inhabit space. Using strategies of juxtaposition and multi-voice collage, I utilize historical artifacts including photographs, newspaper articles, maps, city directory listings, immigration, birth and death records and as well as scholarly research and archaeological reports to look at shared community memories and erasures. I am currently working on , an improvised choral performance, installation and speculative writing project focusing on the unit of breath in relation to ecological change and community wisdom.
Selected Publications
Books
- . Berkeley: Kelsey Street Press, 2017.
- . Los Angeles: Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2009.
Chapbooks
- Brooklyn: Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs.
- . Berkeley: speCt! Books, 2019.
Works in Anthologies
- . (https://www.autumnhouse.org/books/queer-nature-a-poetry-anthology/) Michael Walsh, Ed. Autumn House Press, 2022.
- Dana Teen Lomax, Ed. Gualala Arts, 2022.
- Martin F. Manalansan IV, Alice Y. Hom, and Kale Bantigue Fajardo, Eds. Temple University Press, 2021.
- 鈥淔lood Fathers鈥� and 鈥淕uest/Stalker,鈥� . Akua Lezli Hope, Ed. Sundress Publications, 2020.
- 鈥淪outh in Hundreds (one hundred.),鈥� 鈥淪outh in Hundreds (two hundred.),鈥� 鈥淪outh in Hundreds (three hundred.),鈥� 鈥淪outh in Hundreds (four hundred.),鈥� 鈥淪outh in Hundreds (five hundred.),鈥� and 鈥淪eller.鈥� Brody Parrish Craig, Ed, 2020.
- 鈥淏ehind the Ballroom,鈥� 鈥淗ousehold Mutations,鈥� 鈥淩eturning to a Posted Notice Taped to the Door,鈥� 鈥淭rying to Feel Human/Tomorrow,鈥� and 鈥淪elf-Portrait, house with no one Present.鈥� Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel, Eds. Nightboat, 2020.
- 鈥�,鈥� Of Color: Poets鈥� Way of Making. The Operating System, 2019.
- 鈥�,鈥� The Milwaukee Anthology. Cleveland, OH: Belt Publishing, 2019.
- 鈥�,鈥� Feminisms in Motion: A Decade of Intersectional Feminist Media. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2018.
- 鈥淸as a space to occupy] crossing the source,鈥� 鈥渉unting ancestors,鈥� 鈥渁 lit ghost,鈥� and 鈥渧arious various.鈥� . Tallahassee, FL: Anhinga Press, 2018.
- 鈥�.鈥� Creative Writing Innovations. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017.
- 鈥淪aying My Name with Happiness.鈥� . Ann Arbor, MI: Modern History Press.
- Manifesto of Shame,鈥� . Durham, NC: Jacar Press, 2016.
Works in Journals
- 鈥�;鈥�&苍产蝉辫;鈥溾�� The Margins, Asian American Writers鈥� Workshop, 2022.
- Concision Poetry Journal, 2022.
- Poem-A-Day, Academy of American Poets.
- Interim: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics, 2021.
- and Kweli, 2021.
- and The Rupture, 2021.
- South Seattle Emerald.
- Blue Cactus Press.
- 鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;POETRY, 2019.
- 鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;POETRY, 2019.
- 鈥渁fter so many days fled from scattering mold,鈥� 鈥淭uning Fork Conversation,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;, 2019.
- 鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;POETRY, 2019.
- 鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Spiral, 2019.
- 鈥渙rigins,鈥� 鈥測锚u em d脿i l芒u (me love you long time): draft鈥�; 鈥渕e long you love time: revision,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;, 2019.
- 鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;MARY: a Journal of New Writing, 2019.
- 鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;In Praise of Polyphony folio, Broadsided Press, 2018.
- 鈥淚nfinity Plus One,鈥� 鈥淏ut There Are Limits,鈥� 鈥淭o Even Conceive Infinity, There Are Limits (process notes), , 2018.
- 鈥淎nother Spell for Hole,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;, 2018.
- 鈥淒ear O,鈥� 鈥淟epus,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;, 2018.
- 鈥淲ith (prep.),鈥�&苍产蝉辫;, 2018.
- 鈥淒ay 15: Egg Song,鈥� 鈥淒ay 16: No Visitors Allowed,鈥� 鈥淒ay 17: Moneymaker Goat,鈥� 鈥淒ay 18: Melted Fans for Fees,鈥� 鈥淒ay 19: Image for Exposition,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;, 2018.
- 鈥淪pell for Safety,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;, 2018.
- 鈥淩elatives,鈥� 鈥淭rying to Feel Human Again,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;, 2018.
- 鈥淪elf-Portrait, Belong,鈥� 鈥淪elf-Portrait, Opposite Reflection,鈥� 鈥淪elf-Portrait, Machine,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Tayo, 2018.