Faculty Accomplishments

Delivered the research presentation, "Smothering Asylum: Kids, Cages, and Political Currency in Migrant Processing," at the Issues in Mental Health Policy Seminar at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City on January 29, 2020.

Presented twice at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in November: (1) first delivering a research presentation, "From OTMs (other than Mexicans) to YAMS (you're all Mexicans): Conflating Latina/o/x Migrants,” at the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, on November 14, 2019; (2) as a panelist for the Social Science Matters series, "Critical Issues for the 2020 Election Cycle: U.S. Immigration Policy,” on November 19, 2019.

Delivered the closing keynote address, "The Global Next Door: Local Engagement, Accompaniment, and New Forms of Diversity," at the American Association of Colleges and Universities conference, "Crossing Borders and Boundaries: Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and Careers." San Antonio, Texas, October 19, 2019.

Anna Maria Hong judged the 2024 Academy of American Poets Jean Burden Poetry Prize at the University of Redlands.

Hong, A.M. (2024) Invited Speaker, “On Traversals: A Folio on Walking.” Visiting Writers Series, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA, February 22, 2024. https://www.redlands.edu/study/schools-and-centers/college-of-arts-and-sciences/undergraduate-studies/creative-writing/visiting-writers-series/

Anna Maria Hong emceed a reading by contributors to Traversals: A Folio on Walking at the Poetic Research Bureau and 2220 Arts + Archives in Los Angeles, CA on February 21, 2024. https://www.poeticresearch.com/events/traversals-a-folio-on-walking

Hong, A. M. (2023) Invited Speaker, “How to Live. What to Do: An Episodic Primer.” 2023 Wallace Stevens Birthday Bash, Friends & Enemies of Wallace Stevens, Hartford, CT, November 4, 2023. https://stevenspoetry.org/2023/09/26/2023-wallace-stevens-birthday-bash/

Anna Maria Hong presented on the “Avenues of Creative Scholarship” roundtable with Suzanne Churchill, Lesley Wheeler, Walt Hunter, and Tavi González at the Modernist Studies Association Conference in Brooklyn, NY on October 26, 2023. https://msa.press.jhu.edu/conferences/msa2023/schedules/MSA_Streets_Program_WEB.pdf

Anna Maria Hong presented on the “Location, Origin and Diasporas” roundtable with Basie Allen at the Many Voices, Many American Poetries Festival at Wheaton College in Norton, MA on October 14, 2023. https://wheatoncollege.edu/event/many-voices/

Anna Maria Hong emceed the launch of Traversals: A Folio on Walking at the Room Project in Detroit, MI with co-editor Christine Hume and writers Petra Kuppers, Cindy Juyoung Ok, and Caryl Pagel on September 29, 2023.