Kudos to Dr. Sharon Tran! Diverse Magazine Feature, Book in Production, and Course Expansion Grant

Kudos to Dr. Sharon Tran, assistant professor of English at UMBC, for a number of recent achievements! 

Dr. Tran was featured in the May 2025 issue of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education for the article “Illuminating Asian American Narratives in Literature and Academia." The author writes that Tran "has established herself as a rising voice in Asian American literary studies" and highlights her forthcoming book, Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of U.S. Empire. The book, which has now entered production, will be published by the University of Minnesota Press in Spring 2026.

Additionally, Tran has been awarded a Global Asias Course Expansion Grant for ENGL 360: Growing Up Asian/American. ENGL 360 students will attend a field trip to a local Baltimore public library to explore their Asian American children’s literature collection in the fall. The students will also have the opportunity to report back on this experience by participating in a public reading and discussion event at UMBC. The event will be open to the entire campus as well as the local community. 

Finally, Tran presented the paper "Kamala Khan-Do? U.S. Neoliberal Empire and Girl Power Discourse in Ms. Marvel" at the 2025 Association for Asian American Studies conference in Boston, MA.

Congratulations, Dr. Tran!