Biography

Assistant Professor, English and Africana Studies
Kong-Chow specializes in theories of racial capitalism, built and natural environments, postcolonialism, Black Studies, and Asian diasporic cultures. After completing her PhD at Princeton University, she was a Rising Scholars Postdoctoral Fellow in American Studies and English at the University of Virginia before joining URI. While at Princeton she was also a Teaching Fellow (‘18) at Camden County College through the Community College Teaching Partnership. Her research has appeared and is forthcoming in ASAP/Journal, American Studies, Interplay, and Journal of the Penn Manuscript Collective. She is currently working on two book projects, Securing the Crisis: Race and the Poetics of Risk, and Curating Aesthetics of Race: Cultures of the Modern American Archive.