Amy Tang is the Douglas J. and Midge Bowen Bennet Associate Professor of English and American Studies. Her research focuses on the relationship between aesthetic form and politics in Asian American literature and theory. Her book Repetition and Race: Asian American Literature After Multiculturalism (Oxford University Press, 2016), shortlisted for the 2017 Association for the Arts of the Present Book Prize, explores how Asian American writers use structures of repetition to register, and creatively inhabit, the impasses generated by multiculturalism’s politics of identity and recognition. Advancing a novel, dialectical conception of repetition that emphasizes its oscillating, suspended, reversible character, the book reinterprets the political grammar of four forms of repetition central to contemporary criticism: trauma, parody, intertextuality, and self-reflexivity. Revising our understanding of both key literary texts and the political assumptions that guide our study of them, Repetition and Race shows that repetition in Asian American culture is not simply a technology for reclaiming the past but rather a strategy for illuminating, and sometimes modeling alternatives to, the social and cultural contradictions of the present. Currently, she is working on a book on posthuman aesthetics in Asian American literature. She holds a Ph.D from Stanford University (2009) and a B.A. from Harvard University (1994).