Assistant Professor
English Department, St. John's College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences
St. John’s Hall, Room B-40, #13
Queens campus
(718) 990-5623
tsoue@stjohns.edu
Educational Background
B.A., 1996, University of California, Berkeley,
English
M.A., 1999, University of Chicago, Master of Arts in the
Humanities
Ph.D., 2008, Columbia University, English and Comparative
Literature
Profile
Elda Tsou joined the faculty at St. John’s University in the fall
of 2007. She offers undergraduate and graduate courses on Asian
American literature, American ethnic literature and literary
theory. Her areas of inquiry are Asian American studies, Ethnic
Studies, literary theory and theories of racial formation. Broadly,
her research explores the formal relationship between literature
and society, particularly in the context of ethnic literature. She
has published work on how the social formation is supplemented by
literary interventions. Currently, she is completing a manuscript
on Asian American critical reading practices.