Assistant Professor of Critical and Cultural Studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design
About
Sue Shon, PhD is a scholar-teacher committed to study, struggle, and solidarity. She researches the co-development of aesthetic culture, liberal humanism, and biopolitical visual order. As Assistant Professor of Critical + Cultural Studies at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, BC, Sue’s intellectual labors take form primarily in teaching 4/4 in visual culture and critical race, ethnic, and diasporic studies and in fugitive learning with student and faculty comrades.
Current Work:
Sue is currently preparing a monograph, Racial Sense and the Making of Aesthetic Modernity, which tells the story of how race acquired a visual feel due to constraints in the language of modern human perception. She has published in Media-N, American Literature, and other venues and has organized Xenology, a drawing project and exhibition that responds to the work of science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler.
Research Area Keyword(s):
race, critical race theory, visual culture, aesthetic theory, American literature
