BOOK:
Gammel, Irene and Jason Wang, eds. Creative Resilience and COVID-19: Figuring the Everyday in a Pandemic. London: Routledge, 2022. [Preview PDF with Introduction]
BOOK CHAPTERS:
Gammel, Irene and Jason Wang, “Taking Responsibility: COVID-19 and the Possibilities of Participatory Communication during Crisis.” COVID-19: Individual Rights and Community Responsibilities. J. Michael Ryan, ed. London: Routledge, 2023.
Gammel, Irene and Jason Wang. “‘Why has the outbreak turned so deadly?’ Diary from a Quarantined City.” Creative Resilience and COVID-19: Figuring the Everyday in a Pandemic. Irene Gammel and Jason Wang, eds. London: Routledge, 2022. 17-38
Wang, Jason. “Miss Flutterby: Florine Stettheimer's Dispassionate Flâneuse and Subversive Urban Consumer.” Florine Stettheimer: New Directions in Multimodal Modernism. Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo, eds. Toronto: Book*hug, 2019. 200-221.
Wang, Jason. “Between (Hi)Story and Space: Wayson Choy’s Postmodern Chinatown.” Confluences 2: Essays on the New Canadian Literature. Nurjehan Aziz, ed. Toronto: Mawenzi House, 2017. 19-30.
Book Reviews and Criticisms:
Gammel, Irene and Jason Wang. “Crystallized Fragments.” Canadian Literature, forthcoming.
Gammel, Irene and Jason Wang. “How to Value Artists and People in the Pandemic.” Canadian Literature, 21 August 2023.
Gammel, Irene and Jason Wang. “Review of Beyond Safety: Risk, Cosmopolitanism, and Contemporary Neoliberal Life by Emily Johansen.” Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature (STTCL), 46.1 (2022).
Gammel, Irene and Jason Wang. “The Revival of Feminism.” Canadian Literature, 250 (2022): 187-189.
Wang, Jason. “Review of Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority by Eleanor Ty.” Journal of Asian American Studies, 22.1 (2019): 125-128.
Gammel, Irene and Jason Wang. “Review of Urban Space and Cultural Imagination: Representation of Working Girls in Theodore Dreiser's Novels by Yuping Wang.” Studies in American Naturalism 11.2 (2016): 92-95.
Gammel, Irene and Jason Wang. “Of Cowherds and Wagers: A Poetics of Chinese-Canadian Family Histories.” Canadian Literature, 6 November 2014.
Peer-reviewed Encyclopedia Entries:
Wang, Jason. “Chinese Revolution of 1911.” The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism: Taylor and Francis, 2016.
“Lin Yutang.” The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism: Taylor and Francis, 2016.
“New Cultural Movement (China).” The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism: Taylor and Francis, 2016.
“Zheng Zhengqiu.” The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism: Taylor and Francis, 2016.
Opinion Pieces:
“I was attacked at St. Clair station. The TTC never investigated the assault.” Toronto Life, March 31, 2023.
“Walkers in Crisis.” White Wall Review 42: Special Issue, 2019.
Selected Conference Papers:
“Configuring Research-Creation as Pedagogy of Knowledge Production during COVID-19.” Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Annual Conference, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta, 19 – 21 October 2023. (with Irene Gammel)
“Street Photography and/as Creative Resilience: Walking the City during COVID-19.” Canadian Comparative Literature Association. Congress HSSFC 2023, York University, Toronto, 29 May – 1 June 2023.
“Streets as Nostalgic Memory: Bill Hayes's Pandemic New York City.” The 54th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Niagara Falls, New York, 23 – 26 March 2023.
“Walking the Pandemic City: The Visuality/Textuality of Urban Space in Crisis.” The 54th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Niagara Falls, New York, 23 - 26 March 2023.
“The Financial Crisis and Home Ownership in Jade Chang’s The Wangs vs. The World.” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, Louisville, Kentucky (hybrid). 20 – 25 February 2023.
“Radical Domesticity in the Stettheimers' New York Salon: Inside and Out.” Between the Acts, Modernist Studies Association Conference 2022, Online (due to COVID-19). 1 – 14 April 2022. (with Irene Gammel)
“Canadian Women’s Heritage and Recuperation of Lost Female Artists.” Modernisms Inside & Out, the fourth Conference of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative, Toronto, Ontario (hybrid). 30 September - 2 October 2021. (with Irene Gammel)
“Urban Walking: Re-configuring the Metropolis on foot in Post-9/11 Fiction.” Canadian Comparative Literature Association. Congress HSSFC 2017: The Next 150, On Indigenous Lands, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario. 27 May – 2 June 2017.
"Refashioning Urban Nightlife: The Nocturnal Aesthetics in Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City." The 47th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Hartford, Connecticut. 17 - 20 March 2016.
“The Geo-Cultural Capital of Family History: Performing ‘Chineseness’ in May Q. Wong’s A Cowherd in Paradise.” Canadian Comparative Literature Association. Congress HSSFC 2015: Capital Ideas, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, 31 May – 3 June 2015. (with Irene Gammel)
“Urban Walking as a Poetic Practice of Liminal Space: Teju Cole’s Open City.” The 46th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Toronto, Ontario. 30 April – 3 May 2015.
“Performing Coastal Space as Ethnic History: Vancouver’s Chinatown in Wayson Choy’s Paper Shadows.” The 130th Annual Convention of Modern Language Association (MLA), Vancouver, British Columbia. 8 – 11 January 2015.
“Baroness Elsa and Her Anti-chic Dada: Locating Anarchist Fashion in Modernist Aesthetics.” Modernism Now! British Association of Modernism Studies International Conference, the Institute of English Studies, London, UK. 26 – 28 June 2014.
“Recasting Gent: Men’s Fashionable Consumption at the Turn of the Century.” Intersections 2014: Thinking|Feeling, Communication and Culture Graduate Conference. York and Ryerson Universities, Toronto, Ontario. 14 – 15 March 2014.
Symposium & Colloquium Papers:
“Modern Entrepreneurship and Male Predation in Dreiser’s The Financier.” Colloquium: Literary Predators and Theodore Dreiser’s The Financier, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario. 25 January 2022.
“Miss Flutterby: Florine Stettheimer’s Dispassionate Flâneuse and Urban Consumption.” Stettheimer’s Multi-Modal Modernism – Symposium, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario. 16 November 2017.
“Fashion, Walking, and Modernism: Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Florine Stettheimer.” Fourth Annual Canadian Fashion Symposium, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Québec. 23 September, 2017.
“Fashioning Greenwich Village: A Revisionist Account of Urban Modernism and Salon Culture.” Future Communication, Communication and Culture Symposium, York/Ryerson Universities, Toronto, Ontario, 13 December 2013.
“Paralleling Fashion and Architecture: Body, Space, and Subjectivity.” Uncanny Fashion Symposium, York University, Toronto, Ontario. 24 April 2013.
“From Tailoring Shop to Department Store: Activating Men’s Appetites for Fashionable Consumption.” Textual Spaces of Modernity, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario. 26 March 2013.
Sessions Chaired
Roundtable: Toxic Avant-Gardism, Between the Acts, Modernist Studies Association Conference 2022, Online (due to COVID-19). 1 – 14 April 2022.
Creative Work:
Co-Curator (with Irene Gammel, et al). A Soirée Celebrating the Centenary of the ARMORY SHOW | 1913-2013. Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre, Ryerson University. 2 April 2013.
Director, Editor, and Co-Producer. Think Outside In: Chinese International Students in Canada. Culture & Expression, York University, 2012. DVD.
Invited Talks and Research Outreach:
Invited Reading, “Walkers in Crisis.” LitMod Turns Ten!: Showcasing Ryerson’s MA in Literatures of Modernity, Ryerson University, 22 March 2019.
Guest Lecture, “(Ad)Dressing Urban Modernity: Fashion and Everyday Life.” Social Science Department (SOSC 2560), York university, 26 November 2015.
Welcome and Introductory Address, Book Launch: Narrative Structure in Comics: Making Sense of Fragments (by Barbara Postema) at the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre Gallery, 10 October 2014.
Major Presenter, Workshop on Researching and Writing an MRP at MLC | PUBZ, 9 July 2013.
Invited Film Screening, “Think Outside In: Chinese International Students in Canada,” at York’s International, 4 May 2012.
Invited Presentation, “Global Youth and Online Civic Engagement” at TakingITGlobal (a Toronto-based NGO), 23 April 2012.
Public Film Screening, “Think Outside In: Chinese International Students in Canada,” at York University, 19 April 2012.