Jennifer McMahon
Lecturer of English Loyola Marymount University
Media
Biography
Jennifer McMahon has been teaching literature and writing at graduate and undergraduate levels all over the world, including Hunter College in New York City, The University of Hong Kong, and now at Loyola Marymount University. Her areas of interest include Modernist literature, 20th century American literature, and colonial/post-colonial literature. Her manuscript, published by the University of Philippines Press, about the American colonization of the Philippines won the National Book Award in Literary Criticism in 2012. She has also published commentary in The Washington Post. She is currently working on a novel based on her extensive archival research on the colonization of the Philippines.
Education
Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Ph.D.
English
2000
Boston University
M.A.
English
1994
Lafayette College
A.B.
English
1987
Social
Areas of Expertise
Literature and Writing
20th Century American Literature
Modernist Literature
Colonial/Post-colonial Literature
Accomplishments
National Book Award for Literary Criticism, National Book Development Board, Philippines
2012
Outstanding Part-time Teacher Award, School of Professional and Continuing Education, University of Hong
2001
Languages
- English
Media Appearances
Opinion | Hong Kong is beating this virus. Why can’t we?
The Washington Post online
2020-11-15
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows acknowledged in late October that the United States is “not going to control the pandemic.”
Hong Kong, a city about the size of New York, is always trying to control the pandemic.
As an American citizen who spends time each year in both cities, I have lived through what feels like a bipolar response to covid-19. It is almost as if Hong Kong and the United States are dealing with different diseases.
