Selina Lai-Henderson

Undergraduates

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At Duke Kunshan

 

• China in the World (first-year common core). Course Lead.

• The Art and Power of Banned Literature.

• “The President and the Dissident: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, the American Slavery Crisis and the Power of Words." (With Richard Brodhead)

• “American Ideas and the Idea of America." (With Noah M. Pickus)

• "The Art of Interpretation 1: Written Texts." (With Lincoln Rathnam)

• "The Epic of America: The Novel."

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At Hong Kong University

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• "The American City.”

• “Foundations of American Studies.” 

• “African American Studies and History.” 

• “American Literature: Race, Gender, and the American Dream.”

• “Consumer Culture: Decoding American Symbols.”  

• “American Hardboiled: From Crime Fiction to Social Document.”

• “Dissertation in American Studies.”

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Graduate Seminars (HKU)

 

 

• “Thesis Writing.”  

• “Transferrable Skills.” 

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Summer Fieldtrip (HKU)

 

• “On the Road Again: Field Trip in American Studies.” (New York and Philadelphia)  

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My other teaching and research interests

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• 19th and 20th century American Cultural and Literary History

• Afro-Asian Connections in the Context of Race, Gender, and Empire

• Transnational American Studies 

• Black Internationalism in China and the Harlem Renaissance

• US-China Literary and Intellectual History

• Comparative Ethnic Studies

• Critical Race Theory