Dr. Jasmine N. An is poet and scholar specializing in Asian American Literature who earned her PhD in English and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. Her research traces the aesthetic strategies of contemporary, Southeast Asian, diasporic poets who deform bureaucratic paperwork through their poetry as a critique of US empire in Southeast Asia. Before to coming to University of Oregon, she was an Assistant Professor of Literature at Fulbright University Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City.
In addition to her scholarly work, Jasmine has published two chapbooks of poetry: Naming the No-Name Woman (Winner of the 2015 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize) and Monkey Was Here (Porkbelly Press 2020). Her creative work can be found online in journals such as Poetry Northwest, Waxwing, and Guesthouse, among others, or at jasmineanho.com. She also serves as an editor for Agape Editions, a micro-press that publishes contemporary poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. As a poet-scholar, Jasmine’s academic work of taking poetry seriously as a mode of theorizing is part of her enduring commitment to poets as knowledge creators and a way of honoring the contemporary poetry communities through which she learned to encounter the world.
