David L. Eng

David L. Eng
AwardsLambda Literary Award for Anthology (2001)
Academic background
Education
Academic work
Discipline
  • English literature
  • Asian American studies
  • Gender, sexuality, and women's studies
Institutions

David L. Eng is an scholar of English literature, Asian American studies, and gender, sexuality, and women's studies. He is the author of Racial Castration (2001), The Feeling of Kinship (2010), and Reparations and the Human (2025), co-author of Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation (2019), and co-editor of Q & A (1998) and Loss (2003). As of 2026, Eng is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Education

Eng earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Columbia University, followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley.[1]

Career

Eng began his academic career teaching at Columbia University and Rutgers University, then joined the University of Pennsylvania in 2007. As of 2026, he continues at the University of Pennsylvania, where he holds the title of Richard L. Fisher Professor of English; he is also a professor of Asian American studies, comparative literature, literary theory, and gender, sexuality, and women's studies.[1]

Q & A: Queer in Asian America, which Eng co-edited with Alice Y. Hom, was published by Temple University Press in 1998.[2][3][4] The book explores what it means to be queer and Asian American, touching on subjects related to "homophobia, xenophobia, and racism (and, in the case of women, sexism)".[5] It consists of six parts: "Working Out", "Im/Proper Images", "Keeping Records", "Closets/Margins", "Paternity", and "Out Here and Over There".[6] Q & A won the 1999 Lambda Literary Award for Non-fiction Anthology,[7] and the Association for Asian American Studies's 2001 Book Award for Cultural Studies.[8]

Eng's first authored book, Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America, was published by Duke University Press in 2001.[9][10] Through Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory, the book explores the connections between racial and sexual identities, particularly examining how media has constructed a cultural understanding of Asian American men as queer or less masculine. In making this argument, Eng draws from diverse media, including Louis Chu's novel Eat a Bowl of Tea (1961), Lonny Kaneko's short story "The Shoyu Kid" (1976), Maxine Hong Kingston's short story collection China Men (1980), David Henry Hwang's play M. Butterfly (1988), and David Wong Louie's short story collection Pangs of Love (1991).[11]

Loss: The Politics of Mourning, which Eng co-edited with David Kazanjian, was published by the University of California Press in 2003.[12][13][14] Considering widespread and devastating loss over the previous century, the book explores "'what is lost' in terms of 'what remains.'"[15]

Eng's second authored book, The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy, was published by Duke University Press in 2010.[16][17]

Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans, which Eng co-authored with Shinhee Han, was published by Duke University Press in 2019.[18][19][20][21][22]

Publications

  • Eng, David L.; Hom, Alice Y., eds. (1998). Q & A: Queer in Asian America. Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-566-39640-0.
  • Eng, David L. (2001). Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America. Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/9780822381020. ISBN 978-0-8223-8102-0.
  • Eng, David L.; Kazanjian, David, eds. (2003). Loss: The Politics of Mourning. Afterword by Judith Butler. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-23236-5.
  • Eng, David L. (2010). The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy. Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/9780822392828. ISBN 978-0-822-34715-6.
  • Eng, David L.; Han, Shinhee (2019). Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans. Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/9781478002680. ISBN 978-1-478-00125-6.
  • Eng, David L. (2025). Reparations and the Human. Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/9781478060840. ISBN 978-1-478-02862-8.

References

  1. 1 2 "David L. Eng". University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on April 11, 2026. Retrieved June 28, 2026.
  2. ↑ Simpson, Caroline Chung (January 2001). "Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire . Sonia Shah Q & A: Queer in Asian America . David L. Eng , Alice Y. Hom". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 26 (2): 555–557. doi:10.1086/495606. ISSN 0097-9740. Archived from the original on February 25, 2022. Retrieved June 29, 2026.
  3. ↑ Tsui, Kitty (May 1999). "Q and A: Queer in Asian America". Lambda Literary Review. 7 (10) – via Gale.
  4. ↑ Bloodsworth, Mary K. (July 10, 2000). "BOOK REVIEWS". Journal of Homosexuality. 39 (2): 159–176. doi:10.1300/J082v39n02_08. ISSN 0091-8369.
  5. ↑ Violette, Richard (October 1, 1998). "Q and A: Queer in Asian America". Library Journal. 123 (16) – via Gale.
  6. ↑ Moore, Clive (2001). "Q & A: Queer in Asian America (review)". Journal of the History of Sexuality. 10 (1): 129–131. doi:10.1353/sex.2001.0016. ISSN 1535-3605.
  7. ↑ Antonio, Gonzalez Cerna (July 15, 1999). "11th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Archived from the original on December 24, 2021. Retrieved January 18, 2022.
  8. ↑ "Book Awards". Association for Asian American Studies. Archived from the original on February 19, 2026. Retrieved June 28, 2026.
  9. ↑ Chuh, Kandice (March 1, 2003). "Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America; Reimagining the American Pacific: From "South Pacific" to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond". American Literature. 75 (1): 212–214. doi:10.1215/00029831-75-1-212. ISSN 0002-9831.
  10. ↑ Lape, Noreen Groover (2002). "The Politics of Representation in Asian American Literature". College Literature. 29 (4): 144–151. ISSN 0093-3139.
  11. ↑ Parikh, Crystal (June 2002). "Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (review)". MFS Modern Fiction Studies. 48 (2): 529–531. doi:10.1353/mfs.2002.0037. ISSN 1080-658X. Archived from the original on July 28, 2024. Retrieved June 29, 2026.
  12. ↑ Mandel, Naomi (2003). "Loss: The Politics of Mourning". SubStance. 32 (3): 175. doi:10.2307/3685536.
  13. ↑ Cox, Gerry (October 2004). "Reviews & Resources: Vital Connections in Long-Term Care: Spiritual Resources for Staff and Residents, Loss: The Politics of Mourning, Letters from a Friend: A Sibling's Guide for Coping and Grief". Illness, Crisis & Loss. 12 (4): 339–341. doi:10.1177/1054137304268341. ISSN 1054-1373.
  14. ↑ Skerrett, K. Roberts (March 1, 2006). "Loss: The Politics of Mourning. Edited by David L. Eng and David Kazanjian. University of California Press, 2003. 488 pages. $24.95". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 74 (1): 241–243. doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfj042. ISSN 1477-4585.
  15. ↑ Eng, David L.; Kazanjian, David, eds. (2003). Loss: The Politics of Mourning. Afterword by Judith Butler. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-23236-5.
  16. ↑ Heston, Laura (October 11, 2010). "'The Feeling of Kinship' by David L. Eng". Lambda Literary Review. Archived from the original on August 15, 2024. Retrieved June 29, 2026.
  17. ↑ Kahan, Benjamin (October 2012). "The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy (review)". Journal of Asian American Studies. 15 (3): 352–354. doi:10.1353/jaas.2012.0027. ISSN 1096-8598. Archived from the original on June 10, 2024. Retrieved June 29, 2026.
  18. ↑ Hung, Natalie C. (October 2020). "Review of Racial melancholia, racial dissociation: On the social and psychic lives of Asian Americans". Psychoanalytic Psychology. 37 (4): 350–353. doi:10.1037/pap0000301. ISSN 1939-1331.
  19. ↑ Miyamoto, Kenji C. (December 2025). "Book Review: Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans Book Review: Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans. By EngDavid L.HanShinhee. Duke University Press, 2019, 233 pp., $26.95 paperback". Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 73 (6): 907–915. doi:10.1177/00030651251368893. ISSN 0003-0651.
  20. ↑ Perdigao, Gunther (October 2, 2019). "Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans: By David L. Eng and Shinhee Han. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. 232 pp". The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. 88 (4): 890–894. doi:10.1080/00332828.2019.1653673. ISSN 0033-2828. Archived from the original on June 21, 2022. Retrieved June 29, 2026.
  21. ↑ Sugino, Corinne Mitsuye (2021). "Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans by David L. Eng and Shinhee Han". Journal of Asian American Studies. 24 (2): 342–345. doi:10.1353/jaas.2021.0028. ISSN 1096-8598.
  22. ↑ Bennett, Christopher (January 6, 2020). "BOOK REVIEW: Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans". Journal of Critical Race Inquiry. 7 (1): 67–70. doi:10.24908/jcri.v7i1.13907. ISSN 1925-3850.
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