David S. Roh.

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

An abbreviated version is shown below. A complete CV is available as a PDF, or upon request.

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01

Education

  • Ph.D., English Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara (2008)
  • M.A., English Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Ed.M., Technology in Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education (2003)
  • B.A., English Literature, University of California, Los Angeles
02

Academic Appointments

  • Chair, Department of English, University of Utah — 2024–present
  • Professor, University of Utah — 2022–present
  • Director, Digital Matters, University of Utah — 2018–2022
  • Associate Professor, University of Utah — 2017–2022
  • Assistant Professor, University of Utah — 2015–2017
  • Assistant Professor, Old Dominion University — 2009–2015
03

Books

  • Techno-Orientalism 2.0: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media. Co-editor. Rutgers University Press, 2025.
  • Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions. Stanford University Press, 2021. (Honorable Mention, Literary Studies, Association for Asian American Studies.)
  • Illegal Literature: Toward a Disruptive Creativity. University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
  • Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media. Co-editor. Rutgers University Press, 2015.
04

Refereed Articles

  • Roh, David S., Rebekah Cummings, and Elizabeth Callaway. “Locally Sourced, Organically Grown: Growing a Digital Humanities Lab with an Eye Towards Sustainability.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 14.3 (2020).
  • Roh, David S. “Distributed Communications.” Journal of Narrative Theory 46.3 (2016): 312–338.
  • Roh, David S. “Kaneshiro Kazuki’s GO and the American Racializing of Zainichi Koreans.” Verge: Studies in Global Asias 2.2 (2016): 163–187.
  • Roh, David S. “Yonhiru kan iisuto gozu uesuto ni okeru ryogakuteki kanriho: nibei ni yoru chōsenjin rodōsha no kōchiku.” Trans. Song Hyewon. Zainichi chōsenjinshi kenkyū 45 (2015): 173–200.
  • Roh, David S. “Scientific Management in Younghill Kang’s East Goes West: The Japanese and American Construction of Korean Labor.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States 37.1 (2012): 83–104.
  • Roh, David S. “Two Copyright Case Studies from a Literary Perspective.” Law and Literature 22.1 (2010): 110–141.
05

Book Chapters

  • Roh, David S. “Younghill Kang, Transpacific Agent.” In Asian American Literature in Transition, vol. 2: 1930–1965, edited by Victor Bascara and Josephine Park. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
  • Roh, David S. “The DH Bubble: Startup Logic, Sustainability, Performativity.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, vol. 3, edited by Matthew Gold and Lauren Klein. University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
  • Roh, David S. “Unwrapping the eReader.” In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature, edited by Joseph Tabbi. Bloomsbury Academic, 2017: 371–384.
06

Reviews & Other Writing

  • Roh, David S. “Riposte to Photo Narratives and Digital Archives, or The Film Photo Novel Lost and Found.” Electronic Book Review (2018).
  • Roh, David S. “On the Perils of Absolute Ownership, Tractors, and T.S. Eliot.” University of Minnesota Press Blog, October 14, 2015.
  • Roh, David S. “Let Your DH Flag Fly.” MediaCommons, May 1, 2013.
  • Roh, David S. “Errata to Live By.” MediaCommons, February 2, 2013.
  • Roh, David S. “NBC’s Community and Open Source Collaboration.” In Media Res, September 20, 2012.
  • Roh, David S. Review of Yellow Future: Oriental Style in Hollywood Cinema, by Jane Park. MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States 36.4 (2011): 174–176.
07

Awards & Fellowships

  • Honorable Mention, Literary Studies, Association for Asian American Studies (for Minor Transpacific)
  • National Humanities Center Summer Residency Fellowship, 2019
  • Kickstart Grant, University of Utah, 2017
  • Rising Star in the Humanities Award, University of Utah, 2016
  • URC Faculty Research Grant, University of Utah, 2016
  • U.S. Studies Centre Visiting Fellowship, University of Sydney, 2015 (declined)
  • Robert L. Hixon Fellowship, Old Dominion University, 2011
  • Faculty Development Grant, Old Dominion University, 2011
  • College of Arts & Letters Summer Research Fellowship, Old Dominion University, 2010
  • Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara, Winter 2007
  • Fulbright Graduate Student Research Fellowship, Japan, 2006
  • Foreign Language Area Studies Grant, UC Santa Barbara, Summer 2006
  • Consortium of Literature, Theory and Culture Travel Grant, UC Santa Barbara, 2005
  • English Department Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara, 2003
  • Harvard Graduate School of Education Grant, 2002
  • Dean’s Special Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara, 2002 (declined)
  • Fulbright Fellowship, South Korea, 2002 (declined)
  • Provost’s Honors, UCLA, 2001
08

Invited Talks & Conferences

  • Panelist, “Rethinking Global Japanese Studies” Symposium. University of British Columbia, March 10–11, 2024.
  • Panelist, “An Expansive Korean American Literary History.” UC Irvine Critical Korean Studies Center, December 1, 2023.
  • Book talk, Minor Transpacific. Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea, October 17, 2023.
  • Book talk, Minor Transpacific. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, February 3, 2023.
  • Codesign Sprint, Meta Headquarters. San Francisco, CA, October 18–19, 2022.
  • Keynote, “Articulating the Zainichi and Korean American Literary Conversation.” International Society for Korean Studies, August 12, 2022 (virtual).
  • Roundtable Panelist, “Futurism: Who is a Part of It?” Writers Guild of America West, July 20, 2022 (virtual).
  • Book talk, Minor Transpacific. University of Texas, El Paso, Liberal Arts Honors Program, 2022 (virtual).
  • Roundtable Panelist, “The Future is Now: Co-creating an Equitable Metaverse.” The Raben Group / Meta, March 1, 2022 (virtual).
  • Book talk, Minor Transpacific. Boston University World Languages and Literatures New Books Speaker Series, Boston, MA, February 17, 2022 (virtual).
  • Book talk, Minor Transpacific. University of Kansas CEAS Global Asia Speaker Series, Lawrence, KS, November 11, 2021 (virtual).
  • Book talk, Minor Transpacific. Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, September 11, 2021 (virtual).
  • “Los Angeles and Osaka are Burning.” University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, February 13, 2020.
  • “Against Primordial Asian America: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions.” Princeton University, NJ, October 11, 2018.
  • “Triangulating Zainichi Literature: The Japanese and American Mediation of Korean Bodies.” University of California, San Diego, May 19, 2016.
  • “Chronotopic Colonialism and the Invention of Time Travel.” Minor Culture Conference, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, University of Melbourne, Australia, December 2, 2015.
  • “Versioning: Open Sourcing Literary Production.” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, January 30, 2015.
  • “From Solitary to Accretive Genius: Japanese Amateur Comics and the Limits of Copyright.” University of Nevada Las Vegas Law School Faculty Colloquium, Las Vegas, NV, October 13, 2014.
  • “Scientific Management in East Goes West: Transnational Labor in the Japanese and American Empires.” Duke University, Durham, NC, October 20, 2010.