Margaret Rhee

Margaret Rhee is a feminist experimental poet, new media artist, and scholar. Her research focuses on technology, and intersections with feminist, queer, and ethnic studies. She has a special interest on digital participatory action research and pedagogy.

Margaret Rhee
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Occupation(s)Poet
Artist
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Southern California
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Academic work
DisciplinePoet
Sub-disciplineNew media
Main interestsParticipatory action research
Pedagogy

Education

Rhee holds a Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley in ethnic studies with a designated emphasis in new media studies.[1] She received her B.A. in English and creative writing from the University of Southern California.

Poetry

Her chapbook Yellow was published in 2011 by Tinfish Press/University of Hawaii.[2][3][4] In 2016, she published Radio Heart; or, How Robots Fall Out of Love with Finishing Line Press.[5] In 2017, her poetry collection Love, Robot was published by The Operating System.[6]

She currently serves as managing editor of Mixed Blood, a literary journal on race and experimental poetry published out of the University of California, Berkeley.[7] She co-edited the collections Here is a Pen: An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets (Achiote Press)[8] and online anthology Glitter Tongue: queer and trans love poems.[9] Her poetry has been published at the Berkeley Poetry Review, Lantern Review: A Journal of Asian American Poetry, and Mission At Tenth.

Research and teaching

Her scholarship has been published at Amerasia Journal, Information Society, and Sexuality Research and Social Policy. As a digital activist and new media artist she is co-lead and conceptualist of From the Center a feminist HIV/AIDS digital storytelling education project implemented in the San Francisco Jail.[10][11] For this project, she was awarded the Chancellor’s Award in Public Service from UC Berkeley and the Yamashita Prize Honorable Mention for young activists by the Center for Social Change.[12] She currently serves on the board of directors for social justice organizations, DataCenter[13] and the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project.[14]

She was the Institute of American Cultures Visiting Researcher in Asian American Studies at UCLA for 2014–2015. From 2004 to 2006, she worked as an editor for publications YOLK Magazine, Chopblock.com, and Backstage.[15]

Most recently, she was a college fellow at Harvard University in the department of English, and assistant professor at SUNY Buffalo in the department of media study. [16] Currently, she is an assistant professor of media studies at the New School, in New York, NY.

References
  1. Chancellor’s Public Fellows make connections outside of academia Archived 2013-01-27 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Yellow
  3. My contribution to the Asian American Literary Review by Susan Schultz
  4. Review: Kim Koga’s LIGATURE STRAIN and Margaret Rhee’s YELLOW YELLOW by Jai Arun Ravine
  5. "Will Humans and Machines Fall in Love?". Chicago Review of Books. 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  6. "Fiction Book Review: Love, Robot by Margaret Rhee. The Operating System, $18 trade paper (94p) ISBN 978-1-946031-12-9". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  7. Literary Boroughs #9: Berkeley, California
  8. Here is a Pen: An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets Archived 2013-08-10 at the Wayback Machine
  9. Glitter Tongue: Queer and Trans Love Poems
  10. It's Your Story Too: Reconsidering Feminism, HIV/AIDS, and the Digital Divide
  11. From the Center Archived 2015-11-21 at the Wayback Machine
  12. Graduate Student Wins Chancellor's Award
  13. DataCenter Board of Directors Archived 2013-12-20 at the Wayback Machine
  14. Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project Archived 2013-01-08 at the Wayback Machine
  15. Back Stage
  16. "Margaret Rhee | DMS". mediastudy.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
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