Ithaca College

Jack Wang, associate professor in the Department of Writing, has been awarded a two-month residency in the summer of 2020 at Historic Joy Kogawa House in Vancouver, where he will work on his novel-in-progress entitled The Riveters, about Chinese Canadians who serve in both wartime industries and the military during the Second World War to prove their loyalty to country and win the franchise. 

Joy Kogawa is best known for writing Obasan, a novel about Japanese Canadian internment/incarceration during the Second World War. Historic Joy Kogawa House was the Kogawa family home until they were interned/incarcerated in 1942. Now owned by the City of Vancouver, the house is used for literary events and as “live-work space for writers where they can reflect on issues of conscience and reconciliation and write about their own personal experiences or the experiences of others, past or present.”