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NJCU Professor Receives Grants from Asian American Arts Alliance and Andy Warhol Foundation

Dr. Tan Lin, an associate professor of English at New Jersey City University, has been awarded grants from the Asian American Arts Alliance and the Andy Warhol Foundation.

Dr. Lin received a $1,500 grant from the Asian American Arts Alliance as part of the Urban Artist Initiative (UAI)/NYC consortium with the Association of Hispanic Arts, Harlem Arts Alliance, and Queens Council on the Arts, and in partnership with the Bronx Council on the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts.

Dr. Lin will use the grant, one of 26 awarded to individual artists, to complete work on an ambient, socially-networked novel that blurs the line between fiction and non-fiction. In his book, Dr. Lin retells interesting news stories as though they have happened to him and inserts flea market photographs to “prove” it. The work explores feelings of displacement and the construction of identity and kinship as experienced by first- and second-generation immigrants. 

Dr. Lin received a $14,000 Creative Capital Grant for Arts Writing from the Andy Warhol Foundation to complete a book about Andy Warhol. The book will examine the written works of Mr. Warhol.

A member of the NJCU faculty since 2002, Dr. Lin teaches creative writing at the University.

News releases by Ellen Wayman-Gordon, and Kelly Resch, Office of Public Information.