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Prof. Bonus gives keynote talk for the Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment Southeast Asia Symposium at the University of Puget Sound. (October 13, 2020)

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"Langston Hughes's Short Fiction in 1930s Korea," in Langston Hughes in Context, ed. Vera Kutzinski and Anthony Reed (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 232-42.
"The Harlem Renaissance in Translation: Socialism, Nostalgia, and the Multilingual Spaces of Diaspora," American Quarterly 72, no. 3 (September 2021): 597-617. (*Winner of the 2022 Constance M. Rourke Prize from the American Studies Association)
"'Our Temples for Tomorrow': Langston Hughes and the Making of a Democratic Korea," Langston Hughes Review 27, no. 2 (September 2021): 115-36.
"The Student's Hand: Industrial Education and Racialized Labor in Early Korean Protestantism," Journal of Korean Studies 25, no. 2 (October 2020): 353-78.
"Beyond Afro-Orientalism: Langston Hughes, Koreans, and the Poetics of Overlapping Dispossessions," Comparative Literature 69, no. 2 (June 2017): 201-21.
"Josephine Baker Meets a Korean Housewife: Narrative Cartoons, Women's Labor, and the Circulation of Modern Fetish," Literature Compass 13, no. 5 (May 2016): 311-23.
“Come Back Home Soon: The Pleasures and Agonies of ‘Homeland’ Visits,” in Philippine Palimpsests: Filipino Studies in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Martin F. Manalansan IV and Augusto Espiritu. New York: New York University Press.