Dr. Maya Richards
Education
| Degree | Major Emphasis | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. | Literature | University of California, San Diego | 2025 |
| M.A. | English Literature | California State University, Northridge | 2018 |
| M.A. | Professional Writing | University of Southern California | 1996 |
| B.A. | Humanities | University of Southern California | 1994 |
Teaching and Research Interests
Twentieth and twenty-first century multi-ethnic and Indigenous U.S. literatures, Asian American and Pacific Islander studies and literatures, transpacific studies, environmental humanities
Selected Publications
“Contesting Catastrophe, Envisioning Pacific Futurities: Keri Hulme’s Stonefish and Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Vol. 32, Issue 3, Fall 2025, pp. 684–704, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae011.
"(Re)Worlding the Plantation: Vulnerability and Regeneration in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones and Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Blu’s Hanging." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S., vol. 50 no. 3, 2025, p. 98-120. Project MUSE, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987250.