Xiamara Hohman

Dr. Xiamara Hohman is a visiting assistant professor and Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in the department of English and creative writing.

She earned her Ph.D. in Modern Literature and Culture at Loyola University Chicago and her Master of Arts in English at the University of Dayton.

She has previously taught in the College of Foreign Languages at Zhejiang Normal University (Jinhua, Zhejiang, China) and in the department of English at the University of Dayton.

Her research has appeared in Genealogies of Modernity, Reading Flannery O'Connor in Spain and the Ohio Journal of English Language Arts. She has contributed to numerous digital projects, including the Lili Elbe Digital Archive, the Amy Lowell Letters Project and The Charles Harpur Critical Archive.

Her current book project centers on 20th- and 21st-century American writers' engagement with China and Chinese mythology.

A scholar of 20th- and 21st-century literature, Hohman teaches upper-level courses on literary representations of the U.S.-China relationship, Global Modernism(s), Magical Realism (Ghosts, Myths, and Miracles), and contemporary prize-winning literature. She also teaches ENG 242: British Literature II, ENG 252D: American Literature II, ENG 125: Introduction to Literature and ENG 131: Workshop in Exposition and Argument.