{"id":433,"date":"2023-10-02T15:11:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T21:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=433"},"modified":"2023-10-02T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T21:11:10","slug":"jo-hsu","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/speaker\/jo-hsu\/","title":{"rendered":"Jo Hsu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jo (they\/them) is an assistant professor of Rhetoric and Writing, core faculty for the Center for Asian American Studies, and a faculty affiliate of the LGBTQ Studies Program. They hold a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition and an MFA in Creative Writing. Jo&#8217;s&nbsp;research examines how stories shape our lived realities\u2014 both how narratives are used to constrain institutional access and social imagination, and also how those structurally marginalized wield stories to critique and revise the conditions of their lives. Most of&nbsp;their&nbsp;work&nbsp;examines&nbsp;how expectations around racialized, gendered bodily norms affect the life chances and opportunities of those excluded by normative social scripts. The questions driving&nbsp;their&nbsp;work are:&nbsp;<em>What can the field(s) of rhetoric do to foster connection and care across difference?<\/em>&nbsp;And,&nbsp;<em>what stories must we tell to dismantle and remake worlds conducive to one another\u2019s thriving?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jo&#8217;s&nbsp;work can be found in major disciplinary journals such as the&nbsp;<em>Rhetoric Society Quarterly,&nbsp;<\/em>the<em>&nbsp;<\/em><em>Quarterly&nbsp;<\/em><em>Journal of Speech<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Women\u2019s Studies in Communication<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>College Composition and Communication<\/em>. Their creative writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and can be found in&nbsp;<em>Kartika Review<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Color Bloq<\/em>. Their book,&nbsp;<em>Constellating Home<\/em><em>: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics<\/em>&nbsp;is forthcoming Fall 2022 from Ohio State University Press.<em>&nbsp;<\/em>Most of their publications can be found on their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/utexas.academia.edu\/JoHsu\">academia.edu page<\/a>&nbsp;or via their&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vjohsu.com\/\">personal&nbsp;webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":434,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-433","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin","speaker_last_name":"Hsu","speaker_classification":["Featured Guests"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/433\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}