Selina Lai-Henderson

Associate Professor of American Literature and History at Duke Kunshan University

slai.henderson@dukekunshan.edu.cn

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Scholarly Works - Journal articles

“You Are no Darker Than I Am:” The Souls of Black Folk in Maoist China

Journal article PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association) · May 31, 2023 Open Access Cite

Introduction: Theorizing and Teaching Transnational American Studies Around the Globe

Journal article Journal of Transnational American Studies · January 1, 2022 Full text Cite

Color around the Globe: Langston Hughes and Black Internationalism in China

Journal article MELUS · June 1, 2020 Langston Hughes was the first African American writer to set foot on Chinese soil. Having visited Mexico, Europe, and West Africa before he turned twenty-two, Hughes eventually also made his way to the Soviet Union, Japan, and China in 1933. At the age of ... Full text Open Access Cite

American Studies Across the Pacific: Music, Film, and Literature

Journal article Journal of Transnational American Studies · 2019 Open Access Cite

Lowbrow, Highbrow, and the Categorization of Art

Journal article Columbia Journal of American Studies · 2009 Cite