Mcmahon, Jennifer

Adjunct Assistant Professor
1208HW / Office Hour:
(212) 772-5178
mcmahon_jennifer@yahoo.com

Dr. Jennifer McMahon received her Ph.D. from the City University of New York (2000).

She began teaching at Hunter in the Fall of 2002. Previously, she taught English literature at the University of Hong Kong where she was awarded the Outstanding Part-Time Teacher Award in September of 2001.

In Hong Kong, she also served as the Creative Administrator of the Moving Poetry Project, a pilot project sponsored by Hong Kong University and the government to introduce poetry writing to young Hong Kong students. Her fields of specialization are American Literature, Post-Colonial Literature and Theory, and Asian Literature in English. Dr. McMahon�fs recent publications include: �gMartial Law and the Marcoses�h, �gThe Spanish-American War�h, �gThomasites,�h in Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literature, Edinburgh UP, (forthcoming 2004). �gThe Malevolence of Benevolent Assimilation: Cultural Critique in Early Philippine Literature in English,�h in World Englishes (forthcoming 2004). �gTeaching American Literature in Hong Kong,�h The Heath Anthology Newsletter (Fall 2003). "The American Dream: The Use (and Abuse) of American Literature in the Project of Benevolent Assimilation," Ruptures and Departures: Language and Culture in Southeast Asia, University of the Philippines Press (2002). "Images of America in Paz Marquez Benitez", Philippine Studies 49 (Second Quarter 2001). "Postmodernism in Bamboo Scaffolding: Timothy Mo's An Insular Possession and Xi Xi's My City: a Hong Kong Story", Ariel 32.1 (2001).

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