Grace Yeh
Professor, Ph.D. English
Associate Chair, Ethnic Studies Department
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Areas of Interest
- Comparative ethnic literature
- Representations of race, gender & sexuality
- The politics of memory
- Asian American Studies
Contact Information
- Office: Bldg. 38, Rm. 110
- Phone: 805-756-6229
- Email: gyeh@calpoly.edu
About Grace Yeh
Dr. Grace Yeh received her Ph.D. in English from UCLA. She also holds degrees from Duke and Georgetown. Her research interests include comparative ethnic literature, cultural representations of race, gender and sexuality, and the politics of memory. She co-directed the exhibit Routes and Roots: Cultivating Filipino American History on the Central Coast for the South County Historical Society in Arroyo Grande, California. At Cal Poly, she teaches Asian American and Comparative Ethnic Studies courses, and her courses often have a community-based learning component. She has engaged students in a number of public history projects, including a Japanese American internment oral history project, a Filipino American oral history project, and a local public bicycle tour through a critical ethnic studies lens. Though she's made herself at home in California, you'll know that Grace is not from around here when she slips in a few "y'alls" during lecture (she was born and raised in Georgia).
Publications
Yeh, Grace I. “Filipino Love Stories Digital Archiving Project.” American Quarterly 68.2 (June 2016): 393- 396.
Yeh, Grace I. “The Re/Collecting Project and Rethinking Archives and Archival Practice.” Verge: Studies in Global Asia 1.2 (Fall 2015). 31-36. Special Issue: Collecting Asias.
Haungs, Michael, Grace Yeh, and David Gillette. “The PolyXpress Mobile Ethnographic Storytelling System.” Civic Media Project. Eds. Eric Gordon and Paul Mihailidis. The MIT Press, 2015. civicmediaproject.org/works/civic-media-project/polyxpresssystem
Yeh, Grace I. “Race, Space, and Bicycle Pedagogy.” Teaching History 39.2 (2014): 79-91.
Awards
College of Liberal Arts Service Award, 2018
President’s Diversity Award finalist, 2018 and 2017
Service Learning Faculty Fellow, 2017-2018
San Luis Obispo County History Center Preservation Award, 2015
College of Liberal Arts Dean’s Innovation Award, 2014