Multidisciplinary Representations of Home and Homeland in Diaspora

This collection examines our fascination with homes, blending comparative literature, critical art history, and diaspora studies. Emphasizing the fluidity of home/homeland concepts, it explores multi-local affiliations, gender roles, languages, and power in contested national narratives.

Jean Amato is a professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, working in Chinese and English, her research centers on ancestral home/homeland in twentieth-century Chinese, Diasporic, and Chinese American Literature and Film. Co-editor of Home and Homeland in Asian Diaspora: Transnational Reflections in Art, Literature, and Film (2024), she is co-editing two interdisciplinary anthologies on homeland and diaspora studies and publishes extensively on this topic.

Kyunghee Pyun is a professor of art history at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, focusing on visual culture, the history of art collecting, and the intersectionality of technology and art. She co-edited Fashion, Identity, Power in Modern Asia (2018); Interpreting Modernism in Korean Art (2021); American Art from Asia (2022); Expanding the Parameters of Feminist Artivism (2022); Dress History of Korea (2023); and Home and Homeland in Asian Diaspora: Transnational Reflections in Art, Literature, and Film (2024).