Contributors
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Cassius Adair is a PhD candidate in English language and literature at the University of Michigan studying trans and queer theory, critical ethnic studies, and visual/digital cultures. He is currently working on a dissertation about state identification and identity formation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
John M. Burdick is a PhD candidate in American studies at SUNY Buffalo. He works at the nexus of critical ethnic studies, sensory theory, and food studies. His dissertation examines the consumption of “ethnic food” by contemporary whites and its implications in multicultural whiteness and a sensory reimaging of urban space. He currently resides in Brooklyn and works for the CUNY system.
Wendy Cheng is assistant professor of Asian Pacific American studies and justice & social inquiry at Arizona State University. She is the author of The Changs Next Door to the Díazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and coauthor of A People’s Guide to Los Angeles (University of California Press, 2012).
Karen M. Inouye is assistant professor of American studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She earned her PhD in American studies from Brown University and is working on a book manuscript about the long afterlife of wartime incarceration in North America.
Stephen Hong Sohn is assistant professor of English at Stanford University. He is the coeditor of Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits (Temple University Press, 2006) and author of Racial Asymmetries: Asian American Fictional World (New York University Press, 2014). He is currently at work on a manuscript that examines queer Asian American fiction.
Amy Sueyoshi is associate dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. She is the author of Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality [End Page 387] in the Intimate Life of Yone Noguchi. Her second book, titled Sex Acts: Race, Leisure, and Power in Turn-of-the-Century San Francisco, is currently under review at the University of Colorado Press.
Frances Tran is a doctoral candidate in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her dissertation explores questions around racialization and knowledge politics in the American academy. She is especially interested in how Asian American cultural productions create affective imaginaries that illuminate political possibilities for justice and solidarity across difference.
Andy Urban is an assistant professor of American studies and history at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. His forthcoming book, The Empire of the Home: Domestic Labor and the Political Economy of Servitude in the United States, 1850–1920 (NYU Press, 2015), explores how the production of American domesticity was governed through immigration policies, the regulation of labor markets, and the cultural attitudes that positioned domestic labor in relationship to liberal, republican, and imperial forms of American citizenship and social membership. He remains involved in researching the institutional history of race and missionary work at American colleges and universities, and is currently working on an exhibition project that examines the recruitment of Japanese students to Rutgers in the 1860s.
Sunny Xiang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Florida Atlantic University. [End Page 388]
