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

  • Professor
    English1 Jul 2022 - present

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Chair
    University of Utah, English, United States1 Jul 2024 - 30 Jun 2027
  • Director
    University of Utah, Digital Matters, Salt Lake City, United States1 Jul 2018 - 31 Mar 2022

DEGREES

  • BA, English
    University of California, Los Angeles
  • Ed.M., Technology in Education
    Harvard University, Education
  • PhD, English
    University of California, Santa Barbara

LANGUAGES

  • Japanese
  • Korean

FIELDS OF RESEARCH