Jeff Noh

My research combines archival methods, media studies, and sociologies of literary production to explore how Asian North American and other minoritized writers have negotiated, and at times resisted, publication. Currently, I am at work on two scholarly books on this topic. The first, Parallel Resistance, analyzes the unfinished novels of Asian American and African American writers who experimented with the personal computer from the early 1980s to the 2000s. The second, Unpublished Counterpublics, examines the writings of Asian detainees in Canada and the United States during Chinese exclusion. My scholarship has appeared in Harvard Library Bulletin, Contemporary Literature, and American Literary History.

I am also a creative writer. My novel-in-progress, Patrimony, has been excerpted in The Malahat Review and Best Canadian Stories. In 2020, I was a UNESCO writer-in-residence in Bucheon, South Korea.

I was born in Seoul and grew up in Southern Alberta. Before joining the University of Toronto, I taught at Clark University and Pomona College

Publications

Journal Articles

“Unpublished Counterpublics: H. T. Tsiang’s Ellis Island Poems,” American Literary History, vol. 36, no. 1, 2024, pp. 113-137.

“Ralph Ellison’s Computer Memory,” Contemporary Literature, vol. 62, no. 4, 2021, pp. 527-557.

“Harold Brodkey’s Paper Attachments,” Harvard Library Bulletin, 2021

Creative Writing

“Paris Syndrome,” Malahat Review, no. 218, 2022.

“Jikji,” Best Canadian Stories 2020, Biblioasis, 2020.