Contributors
- Contributors
Laila Farah is a Lebanese-American feminist performer–scholar. She attended Lebanese American University and Eastern Michigan University while working toward her BA in Theatre and Communication Arts. She continued at Eastern Michigan University in order to complete her MA in Performance Studies and Communication and received her Doctorate in Performance Studies from Southern Illinois University. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Women’s Studies at DePaul University and is working on future performance pieces in Chicago, as well as touring with her production of “Living in the Hyphen-Nation.” Her research interests include research with and the performance of “Third World” women and women of colour, postcolonial identities and “alien-nation,” and ethnographic and autoethnographic performance.
Kip Fulbeck, the director of thirteen short films, including Banana Split, Some Questions for 28 Kisses, and Lilo & Me, has been recognized as one of the world’s premier artists exploring Hapa identity. His video and performance work have been shown in over twenty countries and throughout the United States, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art, the Singapore International Film Festival, the Bonn Videonale, PBS, and the National Conference on Race in Higher Education. Currently Professor and Chair of Art and an affiliate faculty member in Asian American Studies and Film Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Fulbeck is the author of Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography (U of Washington P, 2001). His next book, entitled Part Asian, 100% Hapa: Portraits by Kip Fulbeck, will be published by Chronicle Books in 2006.
Thomas Blom Hansen is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. He is [End Page 468] the author of The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India (Princeton UP, 1999) and Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay (Princeton UP, 2001). He is also the editor of States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State (Duke UP, 2001) and Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants and States in the Postcolonial World (Princeton UP, 2005). He is currently working on a book on everyday life, religion, memory, and cultural imaginings in post-apartheid South Africa.
Evelyn Hu-Dehart is Professor of History and Ethnic Studies, and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) at Brown University. Trained as a historian in Latin America and the Caribbean, she has published numerous books and articles, in English, Spanish, and Zoque Mayan, on the Yaqui Indians of the Mexican–U.S. Borderlands. Concurrently, she is at work on the Chinese diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean and is the editor of Across the Pacific: Asian Americans and Globalization (Temple UP, 1999), as well associate editor (with Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce) of the forthcoming Chinese Voluntary Organisations in the Diaspora (Hong Kong UP, 2005). As a scholar of the Chinese diaspora, she intends to disseminate her research on this topic wherever the diaspora is located and has published so far on four continents (North and South America, Europe, and Asia) and in three languages (English, Chinese, and Spanish).
Esther Kim Lee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her areas of specialization include Asian American theatre, Asian theatre, American theatre, ethnic theatre, intercultural theatre, and performance theory. She is also a core faculty member in the Asian American Studies Program at UIUC. She received her PhD in theatre history, literature, and criticism from the Ohio State University and has taught at Hampshire College. She is the author of the forthcoming book, A History of Asian American Theatre, which is based on over sixty interviews with Asian American theatre artists and administrators around the country. Her publications have appeared in Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, and Journal of Asian American Studies.
Jisha Menon received her PhD from Stanford University. She is Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia where she teaches postcolonial studies. She is also Faculty Associate at the Centre for Research in Women’s Studies and Gender Relations.
Stephanie NG is a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan. She is currently completing her dissertation on the role of Filipino entertainers...
