Sharon Yam
- Transnational Studies
- Affect/emotion
- Critical Theory
- Citizenship and Civil Society
- Critical Race Theory
- Reproductive Justice
"Birth Images on Instagram: The Disruptive Visuality of Birthing Bodies." Women Studies in Communication 40.1 (2019): 80-100.
"Interrogating the 'Deep Story': Storytelling and Narrative in the Rhetoric Classroom." Composition Forum 40 (2018).
"Citizenship Discourse in Hong Kong: The Limits of Familial Tropes." Quarterly Journal of Speech 104.1 (2017), pp.1-21.
"Instagramming the Starbucks Bing Sutt: Nostalgia Memory Kitsch and the Construction of Cosmopolitan Consumer Subjects." enculturation (2017).
"Affective Economies and Alienizing Discourse: Citizenship and Maternity Tourism in Hong Kong." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 46.5 (2016), pp. 410-433.
"Education and Transnational Nationalism: The Rhetoric of Integration in Chinese National and Moral Education in Hong Kong." Howard Journal of Communication 27.1 (2016), pp. 38-52.
"Edward Snowden in Hong Kong: Transnationalism and the Local Deployment of Human RIghts Tropes" (Co-authored with Ling Yang). Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric 5.3/4 (2015), pp. 50-63.
"Grassroots Tactics and the Appropriation of State Nationalist Rhetoric: Protest, Mockery, and Performance in Hong Kong." Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society 4.2 (2015).