Los Angeles Review of Books


How Our Stories Won’t Save Us: Teaching Valeria Luiselli’s ‘Lost Children Archive’

May 24, 2021

Dr. Ayendy Bonifacio, assistant professor of U.S. ethnic literary studies, reflects on what literature has to teach about human stories of migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border. Read: How Our Stories Won’t Save Us: Teaching Valeria Luiselli’s ‘Lost Children Archive’


‘Model Minority,’ Still ‘Other’

February 26, 2021

Dr. Joey Kim, visiting assistant professor in the UToledo Department of English Language and Literature, writes in an op-ed about the rise in anti-Asian racism, hate crimes and xenophobia as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.


Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White

January 4, 2021

Dr. Kimberly Mack, UToledo assistant professor of English, wrote a book exploring how blues artists use their work to invent personas that resist racial, social, economic and gendered oppression. Read: Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White


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