Assistant Professor of Critical and Cultural Studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design
About
Dr. Sue Shon is assistant professor of Critical and Cultural Studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, BC. Her research and teaching interests include critical race theory, aesthetic theory, and transatlantic literatures and print and visual cultures. She received her PhD in English from the University of Washington, MA in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and BA from the University of Pennsylvania.
Current Work:
Dr. Shon 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. Her forthcoming essay, "Runaway Slave Portraiture, Aesthetic Culture, and the Emergence of Racial Sense," establishes the concept of visual transparency and its racial power in the context of transatlantic slavery. She has published in American Literature and organized a drawing project and exhibition, Xenology, which 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
