Denia Fraser

Assistant Professor

Contemporary Global Literature, Existential Philosophy

Denia Fraser, Ph.D. is a Term Assistant Professor in Humanities. She currently teaches INYO 105 at Mason Korea. She has a decade of experience as an educator and public scholar in Florida’s Gulf Coast. From 2014-2022, she supported local scholars and Tampa-Bay area businesses in grant writing support, editing and copy writing. Her research and teaching area is Contemporary Global Literature, specifically, Literature of the African Diaspora in the Caribbean and U.S. and Literature of the Asian Diaspora.

Current Research

Exploring Existential Erasure and Motherhood in Contemporary Korean Diaspora Literature

Selected Publications

Creative

“Bending,” “Prologue,” “Generation of Postmemory,” African American Review (forthcoming)

Academic

“Encountering the Colonial Mother Figure in Andrea Levy’s Small Island” Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies (April 2022)

“Domestic Illusions: Manifesting Existential Uncertainty in Loida Maritza Pérez’s Geographies of Home” Ciberletras 34. (July 2015)

“Dominican Immigration Literature: Loida M. Pérez’s Geographies of Home” The Culture Trip (2014)

Review of Christina Sharpe’s Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (Durham: Duke UP, 2010). Kritikon Litterarum 39. 1/2 (2012): 121-26.

Grants and Fellowships

Grantee, Curriculum Impact Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence Grant (ARIE) George Mason University, 2023

Courses Taught

Mason Korea

INYO 105: Introduction to U.S. American Cultures

Previous Experience

AWR 201: Bodies at the Limit: Narratives of Body Trouble

AWR 201: How We Process Pain: Contemporary Immigration Narratives

Education

Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2013

M.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2006

B.A. Rutgers University, 2004

In the Media

“Absent Mothers in Korean Diasporic Writing” Research Remix Podcast (November 2024)