Khanh Ho is an assistant professor of English at Grinnell College, a highly selective liberal arts college in the Midwest. There, he teaches comparative ethnic literature and creative writing to young, bright minds in small classroom settings. He is currently working on a scholarly book reassessing spirituality in Asian American literature. Through the auspices of various organizations, most recently as a co-founder of CRAG, he has pursued a career-long interest in fostering the health and well-being of under-represented minority students in academia. But before his career in academia and for a brief, glorious period of three years, he traveled those parts of the world that could best be enjoyed on a budget and a backpack. As a result, with only the slightest provocation, he will regale you with long-winded tales of harrowing border crossings and especially dirty hotel rooms. Many of these stories are true. All of them exist in a distant, shining past that appears faded to everyone but him. Professor Ho grew up in a supernumerary household of eight children who escaped from Vietnam with whatever possessions they could shovel into a portmanteau. He loves hiking and camping. He enjoys cooking, almost as much as he does eating. Though by profession, he is what in the vernacular might be termed a “race man”—i.e. a paid-pontificator on race--most likely his interests for this blog will range widely. Recently, he finds that everything gets him riled up, especially now that he finds himself middle-aged with a 401K and dental.

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