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ca3@humboldt.edu
  • Founders Hall 218
  • English

Multi-ethnic U.S. literature; law and literature of U.S. slavery and resistance​; critical race studies; ​multicultural queer studies; Black feminist thought; Asian American studies

Christina Hsu Accomando

Professor

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I was born in New York, grew up in Southern California, and came to Humboldt in 1997. As a joint appointment in the Departments of English and Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies, I teach multi-ethnic U.S. literature, ethnic studies, women's studies, and multicultural queer studies. My scholarship focuses on the law and literature of U.S. slavery and resistance, including the work of Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass, as well as contemporary issues of race, gender and the law.

Drawing upon my dissertation research at UC San Diego, I published "The Regulations of Robbers": Legal Fictions of Slavery and Resistance, and my articles have appeared in the Norton Critical Edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; Asian American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students; and journals including MELUS, African American Review, Feminism & Psychology, and The Antioch Review. 

After teaching CRGS classes for two decades with the widely-used anthology Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, I was invited by the publisher to edit and update the 11th edition.

I am the advisor for the Ethnic American Literatures minor and co-founder of the Multicultural Queer Studies program. I am active in the annual Campus/Community Dialogue on Race, the Eureka Chinatown Project, and the Eureka NAACP.

  • Ph.D., Literature, UC San Diego
  • English 232: US Literature and Social Change
  • English/Ethnic Studies/Women's Studies 336: Performing Race & Gender
  • English/Ethnic Studies/Women's Studies 336: Multicultural Queer Narratives
  • English/Ethnic Studies 336: Poetry and Resistance
  • English/Ethnic Studies 336: Asian American Literatures
  • English/Ethnic Studies 336: Black Lives Matter
  • English/Ethnic Studies/Women's Studies 465: Audre Lorde: Language and Power
  • English 546: Law and Literature of US Slavery and Resistance
  • CRGS 108: Power/Privilege: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Class
  • CRGS 360: Race, Gender, and US Law
  • Ethnic Studies 302: Asian American Studies

Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Studies (Co-editor, 11th edition, Macmillan, 2020).

"The Regulations of Robbers": Legal Fictions of Slavery and Resistance (Ohio State University Press, 2001).

Bao Phi. Asian American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students (Greenwood, 2021).

The Pitfalls of Ally Performance: Why Coalition Work Is More Effective Than Ally Theater. With Kristin J. Anderson. "Benign" Bigotry blog on Psychology Today (2019).

The Cynical Red Herring of Arming Teachers. With Kristin J. Anderson. "Benign" Bigotry blog on Psychology Today (2018).

Troubling the “Beat Inevitable”: Brooks, Ellison, and the Cultural Logic of Lynching. MELUS (2017).

Social Justice, Action, and Teaching: The Legacies of Eric Rofes. Humboldt Journal of Social Relations (2012).

"All its people, including its jotería": Rewriting Nationalisms in Cherríe Moraga's Queer Aztlán. Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, Special Issue on Oppression and Resistance (2007).

Exposing the Lie of Neutrality: June Jordan's Affirmative Acts. Still Seeking an Attitude: Critical Reflections on the Work of June Jordan. 33-47. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2004.

Resisting Slavery among the Pettifoggers: Sojourner Truth as Legal Actor. MELUS Special Issue on "Multi Ethnic Literatures and the Idea of Social Justice" (2003).

"Real" Boys? Manufacturing Masculinity and Erasing Privilege in Popular Books on Raising Boys. With Kristin J. Anderson. Feminism and Psychology (2002).

"The Laws Were Laid Down to Me Anew": Harriet Jacobs and the Reframing of Legal Fictions. African American Review (1998). (Reprinted in Norton Critical Edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 2000).