The Writers of Wales Database

GRICE, HELENA

Helena Grice is a Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Aberystwyth University. She teaches on a range of undergraduate courses in English and American Literature, with a focus upon twentieth-century writing.

Her research interests include ethnic American literatures, women’s writing, auto/biography, and feminist theory. Helena is on the Editorial Boards of Textual Practice and Minerva: Women and War, and is an Advisory Board Member of Melus. She is co-editor, with Tim Woods, of the EUP American Studies series, ’Representing American Events’. She regularly reviews for the Journal of American Studies, English and Melus. She has also discussed her work as an invited guest on Radio 4’s “Woman’s Hour”. Helena has published articles in Melus, Critical Mass, Hitting Critical Mass: A Journal of Asian American Cultural Criticism, Comparative American Studies and Meridians.

Reviews:
With respect to Negotiating Identities: An Introduction to Asian American Women’s Writing (Manchester University Press, 2002)

"…Helena Grice balances an engaging sweep of reference with exact local readings, nothing if not a winning combination..."
Year’s Work In English Studies

"...Grice’s book picks up where Elaine Kim’s ground-breaking ’Asian American Literature’ leaves off, continuing to chart the emergence of writing which challenges literary studies in America..."
Lily Cho, Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review

“...Grice begins to open up the field with her own insights, and her reading of China Men is one of the most innovative readings of canonical Asian American texts. Another prominent contribution is through Grice’s attention to writings with subject matters exclusively about China...”
Yan Ying, Journal of American Studies

Selected Publications:
Negotiating Identities: An Introduction to Asian American Women’s Writing (Manchester University Press, 2002)
Maxine Hong Kingston (Contemporary World Writers Series) (Manchester University Press, 2006)
Asian American Fiction, History and Life Writing (Taylor & Francis, 2009)

Contributed to:
“I’m Telling You Stories”: Jeanette Winterson and the Politics of Reading (co-editor) (Rodopi, 1998)
Representing Lives (contributor) (Macmillan, 2000)
Asian American Studies: Identity, Images and Issues - Past and Present (contributor) (Peter Lang, 2000)
Beginning Ethnic American Literatures (co-writer) (Manchester University Press, 2001)
Re/Collecting Early Asian America: Readings in Cultural History (contributor) (Temple University Press, 2002)
Asian American Literature in the International Context: Readings in Fiction, Poetry and Performance (contributor) (Lit Verlag, 2002)
China Fictions/English Language: Readings in Diaspora and After (contributor) (Temple University Press, 2006)