Associate Professor of English
Paul Petrovic, Associate Professor, completed his BA and MA at Kent State University and his PhD at Northern Illinois University. His academic interests center on Asian American literature, post-9/11 literature, contemporary American film, and the intersection between social activism and the nation-building inherent to literature. He is working on a book project about Vietnamese American literary texts that trouble both economic and legal precarity in order to uncover works that focus on more than themes of gratitude, indebtedness, and easy alliance. Dr. Petrovic has edited the collection Representing 9/11: Trauma, Ideology, and Nationalism in Literature, Film, and Television, and published on works by John Dos Passos, Don DeLillo, and U.S. war veterans writing about the Forever Wars. His scholarship appears in the critical collections Approaches to Teaching Asian North American Literature, Through the Black Mirror: Deconstructing the Side Effects of the Digital Age, and American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11. He enjoys traveling and caring too much about music: indie, K-pop, and extreme metal.
