Timothy August

Director, English Graduate Programs

PhD, Comparative Literature
University of Minnesota

Timothy K. August is an Associate Professor of English at Stony Brook University. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Minnesota. He specializes in critical refugee studies, diasporic Vietnamese literature, World Literature, theories of food and eating, and Asian American studies.

His first book, The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America, investigates why a number of Southeast Asian American authors have recently embraced the refugee identity as a transformative position. Arguing that aesthetics should be central to the conceptualization of critical refugee studies, he shows how representational structures can galvanize or marginalize refugees, depending upon how refugee aesthetics are used and circulated.

He has also co-edited a special issue of the Canadian Review of American Studies, titled, "Vietnam, War, and the Global Imagination.” Other recent publications have appeared in MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.; The Journal of Commonwealth Literature; American Quarterly; Television & New Media; The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture; and the Global Asian American Popular Cultures anthology.

He teaches classes in Asian American Literature, Refugee Literature and Film, World Literature, Television Studies, and Postcolonial Literature.

For more information and to download selected publications, go  to https://sbsuny.academia.edu/TimAugust

Office: 2084 Humanities Building
Email:Timothy.August@stonybrook.edu