About Weishun Lu

Weishun Lu is an assistant professor in Humanities & Composition at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach. Her research looks into how poets of color experiment with new forms to grapple with their unease of self-location within multiculturalism at the turn of the twenty-first century.

NBN Episodes hosted by Weishun:

Andy Oler, "Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity and Midwestern Literature" (LSU Press, 2019)

June 2, 2025

Old-Fashioned Modernism

Andy Oler
Hosted by Weishun Lu

In light of recent conversations about the crisis of masculinity, let's revisit Dr. Andy Oler's book Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity and Mi…

Corinne Mitsuye Sugino, "Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans" (Rutgers UP, 2024)

February 7, 2025

Making the Human

Corinne Mitsuye Sugino
Hosted by Weishun Lu

In this episode, I talked to Corinne Sugino, whose book Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans (Rutgers UP, 2024) examines how mainstre…