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  • Contributors

Patricia P. Chu is Associate Professor of English at George Washington University. She is the author of Assimilating Asians: Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America (Duke University Press, 2000), and has published several essays in journals and edited volumes.

Julia H. Lee is currently a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the English Department at the University of California, Irvine. She completed her doctoral degree in English at UCLA and is completing a book manuscript on the intersections between African American and Asian American cultural productions in the early twentieth century.

Viet Thanh Nguyen, Associate Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, is the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002). His articles have appeared in numerous journals and books, including Asian American Studies After Critical Mass, American Literary History, The New Centennial Review, positions: east asia cultures critique, and Postmodern Culture. He was a Fiction Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and his short stories have been published in Manoa, Orchid: A Literary Review, and Best New American Voices 2007.

Eric Estuar Reyes is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at California State University at Fullerton in Southern California. He is currently working on a manuscript focusing on representation, space and community in Filipino America.

George Uba is Professor and Chair of the Department of English and former Interim Chair of the Department of Asian American Studies at California State University, Northridge. He is the author of Disorient Ballroom (Turning Point Books, 2004) and has contributed recent essays on Asian American Poetry to the [End Page 219] five-volume Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry (Greenwood Press, 2006) and on teaching literature to Teaching About Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).

Michelle Black Wester holds a doctorate in American Literature from Claremont Graduate University. She completed masters’ degrees in Applied Women’s Studies and American Studies from Claremont Graduate University and Utah State University, respectively. She currently is teaching at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Her research and teaching interests include Asian American and Chicano literature, war literature, folklore and women’s studies.

Daniel Widener teaches history at the University of California at San Diego. He is at work on a project entitled Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles. [End Page 220]

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