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Since 1999, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs has conducted interdisciplinary research focusing on the cultural and literary representations of South Korean adoptees and single mothers, North Korean orphans, and unnaturalized persons sent to the U.S. for the purpose of intercountry adoption. Her scholarly work has informed transnational projects such as Justice for Adoptees: Stop the Deportation of Russell Green and foreign policy debates on North Korean orphan histories.
In addition to contributing literary essays and book reviews to the Asian American Writers Workshop, Mascara Literary Review, Salamander, among others, she has given numerous interviews and presentations about Korean single mothers and transnational/transracial adoptees most recently at Book Forum and The New York Review.
Her writing has been mentioned in the anthologies The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature, The Intercountry Adoption Debate: Dialogues Across Disciplines, Places in the Making: A Cultural Geography of American Poetry, and The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature.