The final event in the spring 2022 American Studies Colloquium Series.

Xine Yao is Lecturer in American Literature to 1900 in the English department at University College London. She works on intersections of affect, race, gender, and sexuality in relation to science and law through long 19th century American literature. Her first book, Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth Century America won one of the inaugural Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Awards.

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This is a hybrid event. See below for Zoom info.