David L. Eng

David L. Eng is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also professor in the Program in Asian American Studies, the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, and the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. After receiving his BA in English from Columbia University and his PhD in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley, he taught at Columbia and Rutgers before joining Penn in 2007. Eng has held visiting professorships at the University of Bergen (Norway), King's College London, Harvard University, and the University of Hong Kong. He is the recipient of research fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, and the Mellon Foundation, among others. In 2016, Eng was elected an honorary member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York City. His areas of specialization include American studies, Asian American studies, Asian diaspora, critical race theory, psychoanalysis, queer studies, gender studies, and visual culture.