Candidate:  Jenny Lauren Heijun Wills

Bachelor of Journalism, Ryerson

Bachelor of Arts, Honours English, University of Waterloo

Master of Arts, English, Wilfrid Laurier University

Drawing on texts published between 1990 and 2012, such as Language of Blood, Trail of Crumbs, Lai's When Fox is a Thousand, Gish Jen's The Love Wife, Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, and Don Lee's Country of Origin, this study illustrates the complex ways that race, culture, kinship, and nationality circulate in narratives about transnational, transracial Asian adoptee identity. 

Dissertation Examination committee:

Supervisor:  Dr. Eleanor Ty

Committee member: Dr. Mariam Pirbhai

Committee member: Dr. Smaro Kamboureli

Internal/ External member:  Dr. Debora Van Nijnatten

Examiner: Dr. Mark Jerng, University of California, Davis