Dr. Funie Hsu：重新定位西方佛教对话系列

Re-Orienting the Conversation on Western Buddhism 

Institute for the Study of Humanistic Buddhism (ISHB), University of the West

Funie Hsu (she/they) is an associate professor of American studies at San José State University. She is a former University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow and is a transdisciplinary scholar whose research areas include American Buddhism, race, Asian American studies, education, mindfulness, language, gender, human-animal studies, and the political status of Taiwan. Her research is largely informed by her upbringing in a working class, multilingual Taiwanese American Buddhist family, and her prior experience as an elementary school teacher in Los Angeles Unified. Her writing has appeared in: Journal of Global Buddhism, American Quarterly, Educational Studies, CATESOL, L2 Journal, Buddhadharma, Lion’s Roar, and Huffpost.com.

We will have a conversation with Dr. Hsu about her upbringing as an Asian American Buddhist in Southern California, her famous 2016 Lion’s Roar Article on the erasure of…