Misun Dokko

About

Misun Dokko is an assistant professor in the English Department at LaGuardia. Her current research focuses on supporting retention and multilingual academic literacy in an urban two-year institutional context. As an example of this work, her article “Promising but Struggling Multilinguals: Getting on Track in First-Year Composition” appears in the Journal of Basic Writing. This research is a direct response to teaching composition at LaGuardia, and her earlier scholarship on Asian Americanist critique informs it. Her previous work examined an interplay of Asian American literary marginal characters, “dirtiness,” and ethics. Representing these interests, Dokko’s article “The Dirt on Jessica Hagedorn’s Play Dogeaters” appears in the Journal of Narrative Theory. The theoretical thread that runs through her literary, critical, and pedagogical scholarship is an ethical engagement with “others” vis-à-vis Emmanuel Levinas.