Caroline Chung Simpson

Caroline Chung Simpson is an Associate Professor in CHID and English. She received an MFA in poetry from The University of Houston, and a PhD in American Studies from The University of Texas at Austin. Her first book, An Absent Presence: Japanese Americans in Postwar American Culture, 1945-1960, questions the constitution and use of internment’s archives by exposing the largely unacknowledged connection between Japanese American Internment and broader postwar developments, including the discourse on racial integration and US Cold War policies in East Asia. Her current teaching and writing interest continues to pursue the potential of unorthodox or emerging forms for representing historical experience, including, but not limited to, new forms of creative non-fiction, outsider art practices, and visual narratives.