David Roh
(He/Him)
Professor
English
BIO
David Roh is Chair and Professor of English at the University of Utah. He is author of two monographs and co-editor of two volumes: Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions (Stanford University Press, 2021; Honorable Mention in Literary Studies from the Association for Asian American studies), Illegal Literature (University of Minnesota Press, 2015), Techno-Orientalism (Rutgers University Press, 2015), and Techno-Orientalism 2.0 (Rutgers University Press, 2025). His work has appeared in Law & Literature, MELUS, Journal of Narrative Theory, Digital Humanities Quarterly, and Verge.
INSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENTS
- ProfessorEnglish1 Jul 2022 - present
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- ChairUniversity of Utah, English, United States1 Jul 2024 - 30 Jun 2027
- DirectorUniversity of Utah, Digital Matters, Salt Lake City, United States1 Jul 2018 - 31 Mar 2022
DEGREES
- BA, EnglishUniversity of California, Los Angeles
- Ed.M., Technology in EducationHarvard University, Education
- PhD, EnglishUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
LANGUAGES
- Japanese
- Korean