Assistant Professor of Critical and Cultural Studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design
About
Sue Shon, PhD is an assistant professor of critical and cultural studies at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. She specializes in critical race theory and American literature, art history, and visual culture. She received her PhD in English from the University of Washington, MA in art history from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and BA in fine arts and English and a minor in Asian American studies from the University of Pennsylvania.
Current Work:
Dr. Shon is currently preparing a monograph, Visual Literacy and the Making of Racial Sense, which examines how and why race has come to feel "visible" in Western modernity. Visual Literacy locates the source of racial visibility in a surprising place: the perceptions produced by written communication. An essay drawn from the book about race, writing, and vision in skyscraper aesthetics, "The Skyscraper’s Unseeing Eyes: Louis Sullivan, Nella Larsen, and Racial Formalism," was published in the September 2017 issue of American Literature.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Race, visual culture, vision, aesthetics, visual art
