Christopher Seiji Berardino is a Japanse American scholar and creative writer living in Los Angeles, CA.

He is currently a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Riverside.

About

Christopher Seiji Berardino is scholar and creative writer who holds a Ph.D. in English Literature and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Cornell University. His research is concerned with the intersections between Modernism and U.S. Multiethnic literatures, particularly Asian American literature. His creative work explores the generational traumas wrought by Japanese American Incarceration. He is represented by Zeynep Sen at Wordlink Inc.

Projects

Multitude Modernism, Democratic Epiphany in Asian American and African American Interwar Literature (Academic Monograph In-Progress)

“Inside These Fences”: Literature of Japanese American Incarceration (Academic Monograph In-Progress)

Infamy: A Novel (Creative Monograph).

Academic Publications

  • Journal of Asian American Studies. Submitted.

  • MELUS. Revise and Resubmit. Resubmitted.

  • African American Review. Revise and Resubmit. Resubmitted.

  • Steinbeck Review. Spring 2021.

  • International Journal of English Language and Literature. November 2013.

Short Fiction Publications

  • Pilgrimage, Summer Issue, 2022.

  • Breakwater Review, Spring Issue, 2021.

  • Beyond Words Literary Magazine, November, 2020.

  • Prometheus Dreaming, April 2020.

  • Every Writer’s Resource, April 2020.

  • FLARE: The Flagler Review, Spring Issue, 2020.

  • Copperfield Review, December 10, 2019.

  • Blind Corner Literary Journal, November 16, 2019.

  • Flash Fiction, July 8, 2019.

  • Connu Magazine, November Issue, 2013.

Creative Non Fiction Publications

  • The Pinch Journal, Spring Issue, 2021.

  • Newfound, October 15, 2020.

Other Publications

  • From Whispers to Roars, April 17, 2020. (Poem)

  • Journal of American Studies. Fall 2020. (Book Review)

  • The Solidarity Center. June 2012. (Journalism)

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Awards & Recognitions

  • The UC Riverside Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Academic Diversity offers postdoctoral research fellowships and faculty mentoring to qualified scholars in all fields whose background, life experiences, research, future teaching, or service will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity at the University of California. These contributions may include acting as role models and contributions to university or public service addressing the needs of our increasingly diverse society, efforts to advance equitable access to higher education for women and minorities, or research focusing on under served populations or understanding issues of inequalities related to race, gender, disability and sexual orientation. The program is seeking applicants with the potential to bring to their academic careers the critical perspective that comes from their non-traditional educational background or understanding of the experiences of members of groups historically underrepresented in higher education.

  • Nominated by The Pinch Journal, January 2022. The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America - including Highest Honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

  • A prize of $1,000 and publication in Breakwater Review. Run by the Breakwater Review, University of Massachusetts, MFA Program in Creative Writing, Boston, MA 02125.

  • Named for Edward Alexander Bouchet, the first African American doctoral recipient in the United States, the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society (Bouchet Society) recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate.

  • The Provost Diversity Fellowship is a competitive one‐term (fall, spring, or summer) dissertation completion fellowship designed to advance the Graduate School’s commitment to diversity, access, equity, justice, and inclusion at Cornell University.

  • Black Lawrence Press, August 2020. The Hudson Prize is an American literary award for a collection of poetry or fiction.[1] The award is administered by Black Lawrence Press. Poets & Writers magazine has consistently listed it as a "top ten" literary prize in its annual rankings.

  • Daniel Goldman Associates, July 2020.

  • Cornell English Department, May 2019

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