In the second event of the 2018-19 Asian American Studies Lecture Series, David Roh, associate professor of English and director of the Digital Matters Lab at the University of Utah, compared scholarly frameworks of Asian and Asian American studies and local and transnational experience of ethnicity, with specific consideration of the history and literature of Koreans in Japan.

The lecture was held in East Pyne Hall, Room 010, on October 11, 2018. Paul Nadal, postdoctoral research associate who joins the faculty in July 2019 as assistant professor of English and American studies, introduced and moderated discussion following the lecture.