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SUMMARY:Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority
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DESCRIPTION:In this public lecture\, EACW John Edward Taylor Fellow Prof.
  Anne Anlin Cheng will be reading from her most recent book\, Ordinary D
 isasters\, and reflecting more broadly on how this collection of essays—
 traversing memoir\, cultural criticism\, and history—meditates on race\,
  gender\, aging\, and contemporary Asian American identity\, and relates
  to the foundational work she’s done across her career in the fields of 
 critical race studies\, modernist studies\, and gender and sexuality stu
 dies. \n\nBiography\n\nAnne Anlin Cheng is the Louis W. Fairchild ’24 Pr
 ofessor of English\, affiliated faculty in the Program in Gender and Sex
 uality Studies and on the Committee on Film Studies\, and former directo
 r of the Program in American Studies. She is the author of four books: T
 he Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis\, Assimilation\, and Hidden Grief\
 ; the award-winning Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface\
 ; Ornamentalism which served as an impetus for the Metropolitan Museum’s
  2025 exhibition entitled “Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Retake on Chinoi
 serie”\; and\, most recently\, a book of personal/cultural essays Ordina
 ry Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority. Her writings have ap
 peared in critical journals such as Camera Obscura\, Critical Inquiry\, 
 Differences\, PMLA\, Representations\, among others. She has contributed
  to The Atlantic\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, The New York Times\
 , The Washington Post\, The Yale Review\, Hyperallergic\, and more. She 
 was the 2023-2024 Scholar-in-Residence at the Museum of Modern Art\, NY.
 
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre \, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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