Hee-Jung (Serenity) Joo

• ENGL1300 - Representative Literary Works
• ENGL 2650 - Introduction to Critical Theory
• ENGL 3820 - Prison Writing
• ENGL 3920 - Science Fiction and Abolition
• ENGL 4630/7030 - Asian American Queer Inhumanisms
• ENGL 4630/7030 - Racial Futurities

• PhD (Comparative Literature), University of Oregon, 2007
• BA Summa Cum Laude  (English and French), Louisiana State University, 1999

Research interests

• Comparative ethnic American literatures
• Speculative fiction
• Critical race theory
• Queer theory
• Abolition

Research affiliations/groups

• Coordinator - Prairie Abolition Research Cluster, Institute for the Humanities

• Joo, Hee-Jung S. “The Asian (as) Robot: Queer Inhumans in the works of Margaret Rhee, Greg Pak, and Chang-rae Lee,” Journal of Asian American Studies, vol. 25, no. 1, 2022, pp. 1-30.
• Joo, Hee-Jung S. Pacharee Sudhinaraset, and Walidah Imarisha, eds. Our Shared Planet: The Environment Issue, special issue of American Studies, vol. 60, nos. 3-4, 2021.
• Joo, Hee-Jung S. “We Are the World (but only at the End of the World): Race, Disaster, and the Anthropocene,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 38.1 (2020): 72-90.
• Joo, Hee-Jung S. “Racial Impossibility and Critical Failure in W. E. B. Du Bois’s Darkwater.” Science Fiction Studies 46.1 (2019): 106-26.
• Joo, Hee-Jung S. “Reluctant Heroes and Petty Tyrants: Racism, Illegality, and the Global War on Terror in Children of Men and District 9,” Arizona Quarterly 71.2 (2015): 61-86.
• Joo, Hee-Jung S. “Reproduction, Reincarnation, and Human Cloning: Literary and Racial Forms in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl,” Critique 55.1 (2014): 46-59.

• 2022 - Outstanding Professor Award, Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba 
• 2020 - Community Engagement Award, University of Manitoba

• Member - Prairie Asian Organizers! (PAO!)
• Member - Prison Libraries Committee (PLC)
• Member - Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta Abolition Coalition (SMAAC)