KIMBERLY MAY JEW portrait
  • Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies
  • Associate Professor, Theatre

Presentations

  • MELUS Conference (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US) 2024 - paper titled "Staging the Absurd Worlds of Asian American Women". Conference Paper, Accepted, 12/15/2023.
  • ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education) 2023: Presented paper on Luis Valdez' "Los Vendidos" for the panel on "Citational Justice and the Archive: Looking Backward to Build LIA Theatre Studies.". Conference Paper, Presented, 07/31/2023.
  • PAMLA (Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association Conference) 2023 - "Oral History Projects and the Discovery of Community.". Conference Paper, Accepted, 07/17/2023.
  • "Asian American Passing in Theatre" -- Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA) . Conference Paper, Presented, 11/12/2022.
  • Organized and moderated 2 panels for Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA) conference. Other, Presented, 11/11/2022.
  • Tanner Humanities Panel Discussion with Ayad Akhtar. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/30/2022.
  • Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Annual Conference 2021; presented "Intersectionality and Otherness in a Creative Writing Classroom". Conference Paper, Presented, 11/14/2021.
  • Asian American Student Association (AASA), University of Utah, "Asian American Awareness Week" -- invited to be a guest speaker. Created and participated in panel titled "Asian Americans Take on the Beauty Myth.". Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/11/2021.
  • Sundance & University of Utah Health - Film Screening; Invited guest panelist for pre-show discussion on "Minari". Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 07/15/2021.
  • UC Berkeley Athletics Department Annual Diversity Series; Invited guest speaker on "Asian Pacific American Heritage Month & Movie Panel" focused on discussing the film, "Vincent Who?". Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/24/2021.
  • Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference (PAMLA) San Diego, CA “Missing in Hawai’i: Exploring Absence in Susan Soon He Stanton’s What Ever Happened to John Boy Kihano?" . Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/15/2019.
  • Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Washington D.C. “Exploring ‘Asian Elsewheres’ in David Henry Hwang’s Asia Plays” . Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 10/31/2019.
  • Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (2018); presented paper titled “Staging the Asian Local Identity in Hawai’i: Negotiating In-Betweeness” . Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/15/2018.
  • Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA) "Gothic Elements in Dianna Fuemana's Mapaki". Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/10/2017.
  • Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association conference (PAMLA) Pasadena, CA “On Trial, Looking Forwards and Back in an Early Experimental Play by Elmer Rice” . Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/11/2016.
  • Oceanic Popular Culture Association Conference (OPCA), University of Chaminade, Honolulu, HI; “The Adult Postcolonial Child: Images of Growing up in the Pacific Islands.”. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 05/20/2016.
  • Utah State History Conference, Moderator, "Topaz Internment Camp Panel". Other, Presented, 10/19/2015.
  • American Comparative Literature Conference, Seattle, WA; “Japanese and Chinese Settler Drama in Twentieth Century Hawaii”. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/23/2015.

Grants, Contracts & Research Gifts

  • Emerging Feminist and Gender Studies Perspectives for the 21st Century. PI: Kimberly Jew. Transform School for Social and Cultural Transformation, 01/01/2021 - 04/30/2021. Total project budget to date: $500.00
  • VPR Grant "Frontiers 50th Anniversary Research and Oral History Project". PI: Kimberly Jew. Co-PI(s): Wanda Pillow, Darius Bost. Vice President of Research , 07/01/2020 - 12/01/2021. Total project budget to date: $9,000.00
  • The Revolving Sky. PI: Daniel Mendoza, Brenda Bowen, Brooke Horejsi, Kimberly Jew. 1U4U, 02/10/2020 - 08/01/2022. Total project budget to date: $30,000.00
  • Intimate Partner Violence Prevention and Reproductive Health for African Refugees Resettled in the United States (Board Member). PI: Sara Simonsen plus others. 1U4U, 02/10/2020 - 08/01/2022. Total project budget to date: $50,000.00
  • Rohina Malik "Unveiled". PI: Kimberly Jew, Lynn Deboeck. University Teaching Grant, 09/01/2019 - 12/02/2019. Total project budget to date: $4,000.00

Geographical Regions of Interest

  • Oceania

Publications

  • Kimberly Jew (2023). Settler Sensibilities in Asian Diasporic Theatre in Hawai'i (1928-1961); Imagining Islands of Opportunity and Home. Pacific Coast Philology (Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association Journal) - published by Penn State University. Accepted, 11/02/2023.
  • Kimberly Jew (2023). “Stretching Across the Pacific Ocean from China to New Zealand: Images of Enduring Feminine Connectivity in Under the Same Moon”. Australasian Drama Society Journal. Accepted, 09/20/2023.
  • Kimberly Jew, Anita Gonzalez, Eva Aymame-Rene & Anita Gonzalez & Eva Rene Ayamame (2022). Women's Innovations in Theatre, Dance and Performance (Vol. 4 "Leaders"). Vol. 4. Bloomsbury Press. Accepted, 09/17/2022.
  • Kimberly Jew (2021). Multiethnic Absurdist Political Theatre. Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature. Accepted, 09/01/2021.
  • Kimberly Jew, Editor (2021). "Black Performance". Vol. 42(2). Frontiers, a Women Studies Journal - Special Volume. Published, 05/01/2021.
  • Editor (2021). "Staging Feminist Futures". Frontiers, a Women Studies Journal - Special Volume. Published, 02/01/2021.
  • Kimberly Jew (2020). “Envisioning South Asian Theatre in New Zealand: An Interview with Amit Ohdedar and Jacob Rajan" (Interview). Theatre Journal Online, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, John Hopkins University Press. Vol. 72. Published, 12/28/2020.
  • Kimberly M. Jew (2018). Three Years on Doreen's Sofa: Holding Fast to the Comforts of Intimacy and Family in a Postcolonial World. Pacific Coast Philology. Vol. 153, 272-285. Published, 12/24/2018.
  • Kimberly Jew (2017). Reflective Entrapments: Intimacy and Distance in Dianna Fuemana’s Mapaki. Journal of New Zealand Literature. 72-89. Published, 12/18/2017.
  • “A Place of War and Home: Two Visions of Rockbridge County Seen Through the Writings of Alexander Sterrett Paxton,” Home in Appalachia, University of Tennessee Press, edited by Leslie Worthington and Jurgen Grandt, Fall 2016. Published, 12/17/2016.
  • “The Female Immigrant as Subject: Poetic Twins and Triplicates in The Last Virgin in Paradise and Frangipane Perfume,” in Pacific Asia Inquiry, University of Guam, edited by Elizabeth Bowman. Published, 01/22/2016.
  • Lexington's Letters to the Editor, edited dramatic adaptation of published letters (in collaboration with students and faculty at Washington and Lee University), published by Mariner Press. Published, 01/01/2011.
  • “Reclaiming Ritual: Feminism and Post-Colonialism in Two Plays by Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl” in Rites of Passage, Rodopi Press (Cross Cultures Series), edited by Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo and Gina Wisker. Published, 01/01/2010.
  • “Perspectives on Asian American Performance Art: Contexts, Memories and the Making of Meaning on Stage,” in MELUS, Journal for the Society of the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature in the United States, “Special Volume on Asian Performance,” edited by Tina Chen. Published, 01/01/2010.
  • “Gothic Aesthetics of Entanglement and Endangerment in The Sound of a Voice and The House of Sleeping Beauties,” in Asian Gothic: A Critical Reader, McFarland Press, edited by Andrew Hock Soon Ng. Published, 01/01/2008.
  • “Mr. Zero in American Literary Characters, Brucoli Layman Clark. Published, 01/01/2007.
  • “Elmer Rice” and “The Adding Machine” in The Encyclopedia of American Literature, Brucoli Layman Clark. Published, 01/01/2007.
  • “Chinese American Drama” and “Chay Yew” in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature, Greenwood Press. Published, 01/03/2005.
  • “Wakako Yamauchi” in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Asian American Authors, Gale Publishers. Published, 01/03/2005.
  • “Dismantling the Realist Character in Velina Hasu Houston’s Tea and David Henry Hwang’s FOB” in Literary Gestures, the Aesthetic in Asian American Literature, Temple University Press, edited by Rocio G. Davis and Sue-Im Lee. (Choice Magazine: Winner of “Outstanding Academic Title for 2006” Award). Published, 01/01/2005.