Claudia Sadowski-Smith

Biography
Claudia Sadowski-Smith specializes in late 20th and 21st century multiethnic US literatures, immigration studies, border studies, and fiction of the US Southwest. She is the author of The New Immigrant Whiteness: Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States (New York U. Press, 2018), which places post-USSR migration in dialogue with discussions about the racialization of contemporary US immigrants under neoliberalism, and Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States (U. of Virginia Press, 2008), which explores multiethnic cultural productions about the US borders with Canada and Mexico. In addition, Sadowski-Smith is the editor of Globalization on the Line: Culture, Capital, and Citizenship at U.S. Borders (Palgrave, 2002) and of two special journal issues--on postsocialist US literatures and on comparative border studies. She has published articles on such subjects as reality TV, transnational adoption, studies of the US-Mexico and US-Canada borders, and the internationalization of US American studies. From 2014 to 2017, Sadowski-Smith served as the Principal Investigator for a US State Department-funded cooperation between ASU and Kinnaird College, Pakistan, which focused on globalizing the research and teaching of US literature.
Publications
Monographs:
The New Immigrant Whiteness: Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States. New York: New York University Press (Nation of Nation series), 2018
Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press (New World Studies series), 2008
Editor
Special Issue "Postsocialist Literatures in the United States" (with Ioana Luca) Twentieth Century Literature 65.1-2 (March 2019)
Special Issue “Comparative Border Studies” Comparative American Studies 9.4 (December 2011)
Globalization on the Line: Culture, Capital, and Citizenship at U.S. Borders. New York Palgrave: 2002
Representative Articles:
Climate Migration Fiction and Multispecies Mobility in the Racial Capitalocene, American Studies 60.3/4 (Fall/Winter 2021): 109-126
Introduction: Postsocialist Literatures in the United States, (with Ioana Luca) Twentieth Century Literature 65.1-2 (March 2019): 1-22
The Profiling of Non-Citizens: Highly-Skilled BRIC Migrants in the Mexico-US Borderlands and Arizona’s SB 1070, (with Wei Li) Population, Space, and Place 22.5 (2016): 487-500
Global Migration Meets TV Format Adaptation: The Post-Soviet Diaspora, "Whiteness," and Return Migration in Dancing with the Stars (US) and Ukraine's The Bachelor, European Journal of Cultural Studies 17.6 (December 2014): 753-769
The Centrality of the Canada-US Border for Hemispheric Studies of the Americas, Forum for Interamerican Research 7.3 (December 2014): 20-40 http://interamericaonline.org/volume-7-3/Sadowski-Smith/
Chinese Migration to the Hemisphere: Multiraciality, Transgenerational Trauma, and Comparative American Studies, Transnational Crossroads: Reimagining Asian America, Latin@ America, and the American Pacific. Eds. Camilla Fojas and Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012: 337-402
U.S. Border Ecologies, Environmental Criticism, and Transnational American Studies, American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship: Thinking and Acting in the Local and Global Commons. Eds. Joni Adamson and Kimberly Ruffin. New York: Routledge, 2012: 144-157
Introduction: Comparative Border Studies, Comparative American Studies 9.4 (December 2011): 273-287
Neoliberalism, Global "Whiteness," and the Desire for Adoptive Invisibility in Recent U.S. Memoirs of Adoption from Russia and Ukraine, Journal of Transnational American Studies 3.2 (November 2011) http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3j13s0pm#page-32
Unskilled Labor Migration and the Illegality Spiral: Chinese, European, and Mexican Indocumentados in the United States, 1882-2007, American Quarterly 60.3 (Fall 2008): 779-804.
Twenty-First Century Chicana/o Border Writing, South Atlantic Quarterly 105.4 (Fall 2006): 825-851
Theorizing the Hemisphere: Inter-Americas Work at the Intersection of American, Canadian, and Latin American Studies, (with Claire F. Fox) Comparative American Studies 2.1 (Spring 2004): 41-74.
The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Write Back: Cross-Cultural Transnationalism in Women of Color Fiction, Arizona Quarterly 57.1 (Spring 2001): 91-112
U.S. Border Theory, Globalization, and Ethnonationalisms in Post-Wall Eastern Europe,” Diaspora 8.1 (Spring 1999): 3-22
Post-Cold War Narratives of Nostalgia, The Comparatist 23 (May 1999): 117-127
Ostalgie: Revaluing the Past, Regressing into the Future, GDR Bulletin 25 (Spring 1998): 1-6
Courses
Spring 2022 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 337 | Major American Novels |
ENG 560 | Genre Studies |
Fall 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 350 | Studies in Lit Hist&Traditions |
ENG 560 | Genre Studies |
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 434 | Studies: Lit/Culture Americas |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 337 | Major American Novels |
ENG 560 | Genre Studies |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 337 | Major American Novels |
ENG 560 | Genre Studies |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 337 | Major American Novels |
ENG 560 | Genre Studies |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 560 | Genre Studies |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 435 | Lits of Immigration/Diaspora |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
ENG 560 | Genre Studies |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 435 | Lits of Immigration/Diaspora |
ENG 560 | Genre Studies |