Tena Helton

Professor

University of Illinois-Springfield

Affiliations

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Department Of English

Studies Of Women And Gender

English

University of Illinois--Springfield

Tena Helton is currently serving as a College Of Liberal Arts And Sciences Professor at University of Illinois-Springfield.

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Tena Helton

University of Illinois-Springfield

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cultural studies east asian studies literature cultural history asian studies postcolonial writing media studies contemporary china chinese culture east asian languages popular culture american literature chinese politics cultural analysis literary studies black experience black feminism racial studies lan yu beijing story real life english digital humanities world literature queer theory game design english education drama education economy of china global history digital scholarship popular medium digital mediums child-computer interaction literary history narrative victorian literature women's studies early american literature chinese law orientalism digital culture online gaming digital playground game studies narrative representation feminist geography feminist identity diaspora studies settler colonialism labor migration historical sociology post-colonial criticism gender stereotypes virtually human stanley kwan gay romance girl gamers digital activism gold mountain graphic narrative tender ladies regional identification ivy rowe queer immigrant fairytales magic fish postcolonial bildungsroman film video games

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Why Our Dh Program Died, and What You Can Learn About Saving Yours.. University of Minnesota Press (2025)

dh program diedpublic policyhealth policydigital healthrecovery

Queer Immigrant Fairytales: Reading Trung Le Nguyen’s the Magic Fish as Postcolonial Bildungsroman. Postcolonial Bildungsroman (2024)

queer immigrant fairytaleseast asian studiesliteraturepostcolonial writingmagic fishcultural historypostcolonial bildungsromanasian studiescomparative literaturediaspora studiescultural analysiscultural studiescultural anthropology

Girl Gamers and Digital Activism in Doctorow and Wang's in Real Life.. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature (2023)

digital culturedigital scholarshippopular mediumgame designonline gamingreal lifedigital playgroundgender studiesdigital mediumsgirl gamersgame studiespopular culturetheatremedia studieschild-computer interactiondigital activism

Pixels, Politics, and Privileges in Doctorow and Wang's in Real Life. Rocky Mountain review/The Rocky Mountain review (2023)

image communicationeast asian studiesdigital artreal lifevisual cultureartfilmcultural studiesmedia studiesscreen medium

Historiography, Graphic Narrative, and Truth-Telling in David Wong’s Escape to Gold Mountain.. Status Quaestionis vol. 20, no. 2 (2021)

literary historynarrativegold mountainliteraturegraphic narrativeliterary studiesliterary criticismcultural historyvictorian literaturenarrative representationhumanitiesvisual culturecultural studies

Review of Andrew Urban’s Brokering Servitude: Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor During the Long Nineteenth Century (Nyu Press, 2018). Journal of Asian-American Studies (2020)

settler colonialismsociologyhuman migrationurban historylabor migrationsocial historylong nineteenth centurymigration studiesnyu presshistorical sociologyinternational migrationdomestic laborhistory

Central Pacific Railroad Recruits Chinese Workers, 1865.. 25 Events that Shaped Asian American History: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic (2019)

chinese culturecontemporary chinaeast asian studieseconomy of chinaasian studieschinese politics

From Beijing Story to Their Story: Adaptation and Stanley Kwan's Lan Yu.. Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance (2014)

chinese lawchinese culturelan yucontemporary chinastanley kwaneast asian studiesworld literatureeast asian languagescultural historyglobal historyasian studiesbeijing storycultural studies

From Beijing Story to Their Story: Adaptation, Politics and Gay Romance in Stanley Kwan’s Lan Yu. Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance (2014)

chinese culturegay romancelan yucontemporary chinaeast asian studiespostcolonial writingcultureeast asian languagesqueer theoryasian studiescultural analysisorientalismbeijing storycultural studieschinese politics

Relationship. American Indian Quarterly (2010)

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