Roberta Wolfson is a Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University, specializing in Literature through her focus on twentieth- and twenty-first-century multiethnic U.S. literatures. She teaches courses exploring the role of language and narrative in racial and social justice movements, such as Ethnofuturist Rhetorics: Imagining the Future of Race (CSRE 91RW, PWR 91RW), Writing & Rhetoric 1: Writing for Liberation: The Rhetoric of Antiracism (PWR 1RW), and Writing & Rhetoric 2: Not Part but Whole: Writing Mixed Race Identity (PWR 2RW). Wolfson earned her B.A. in English with a creative writing emphasis and Chinese minor from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2009. She received her M.A. in English in 2012, Ph.D. in English in 2017, and Ph.D. Certificate in College and University Teaching from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she taught in the Department of English and Writing Program. Prior to Stanford, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo from 2017 to 2020, teaching courses on Asian American, African American, Muslim American, and mixed race U.S. literatures. Earlier, she served as a peer tutor and tutor supervisor in the Undergraduate Writing Center at UCLA.

Her research interests include Comparative Ethnic Studies, Critical Mixed Race Studies, Racial and Social Justice, Ethnofuturist Speculative Fiction, Popular U.S. Culture, Risk and Security Studies. Wolfson's book, Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State (The Ohio State University Press, 2024), analyzes how writers of color employ antiracist narratives to counter the violence of the U.S. security state. Key publications feature 'A Man of Two Faces and Two Minds': Just Memory and Metatextuality in The Sympathizer's Rewriting of the Vietnam War (College Literature, 2023), Race Leaders, Race Traitors, and the Necropolitics of Black Exceptionalism in Paul Beatty's Fiction (American Literature, 2019), Chicano Gang Members at Risk: Containment, Flight, and an Alternative Vision of Sociality in Luis J. Rodriguez's Always Running (MELUS, 2018), and (Mis)Reading in the Age of Terror: Promoting Racial Literacy through Counter-Colonial Narrative Resistance in the Post-9/11 Muslim Novel (College Literature, 2023). She has encyclopedia entries on Luis Javier Rodriguez (Latino Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students, 2023) and Celeste Ng (The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, 2022). Awards include the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access in a Learning Environment (IDEAL) Honor Roll (Stanford, 2024), Research Grant from the Program in Writing and Rhetoric (Stanford, 2023), Teaching Advancement Grant (Stanford, 2021), Modern Language Association International Bibliography Fellowship (2019-2020), and several grants from Cal Poly and UC Santa Barbara. Wolfson serves on the Board of the Asian Staff Forum at Stanford and the Advisory Board of the Circle of Asian American Literary Studies.

Professional Email: roberta.wolfson@stanford.edu