Contributors
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Jian Neo Chen is Assistant Professor of English and affiliate faculty of Sexuality Studies, Asian American Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Film Studies at The Ohio State University. His research explores trans and queer cultural practices in literature, film, performance, digital media, and theory and their reimagining of social relationships and political movements within the contexts of late twentieth-century and twenty-first-century U.S. technologies of gender, sexuality, race, and empire. Chen's first monograph focuses on trans Asian American and trans of color cultures and movements as they emerge in the twenty-first century, having survived the effects of transnational U.S. state racism and capitalism and life on the edges of multiple communities. The book is under contract with Duke University Press's Anima Series. Chen serves on the editorial board of the Transgender Studies Quarterly and the advisory board of the Museum and Curatorial Studies Review.
Wendy Cheng is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Scripps College. She is the author of The Changs Next Door to the Díazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California (University of Minnesota Press), which won the 2014 Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Asia and Asian America; and coauthor of A People's Guide to Los Angeles (University of California Press), which won the Association of American Geographers Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography and the Southern California Independent Booksellers Award for Nonfiction. Her articles, reviews, and essays have appeared in a variety of publications, including American Quarterly, Journal of Urban History, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her current research focuses on the political activism of Taiwanese student migrants to the United States.
Antonio Duran is a doctoral student in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program at The Ohio State University. His research interests primarily look [End Page 309] at the intersections of race, sexuality, and gender identity for college students and how they make meaning of these identities.
Rachel Endo is Professor and Dean of the School of Education at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her primary research interests include Asian American education, critical and decolonizing approaches to multicultural education, and diasporic and transnational studies of Asian America.
Grace Kyungwon Hong is Professor of Asian American Studies and Gender Studies at UCLA. She is the author of Death Without Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference (University of Minnesota Press, 2015) and The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant Labor (University of Minnesota Press, 2006) and the co-editor (with Roderick A. Ferguson) of Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization (Duke University Press, 2011).
Joanne Leow is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan. She has published her work on Southeast Asian literature and film, and diasporic North American literature in Journal of Commonwealth Literaturê Canadian Literature, Studies in Canadian Literature, and Journal of Postcolonial Writing. She is currently at work a book manuscript titled Counter-Cartographies: Literary Wayfinding in Model Cities and embarking on a multisite study of futuristic waterfront developments and speculative cultural texts from Singapore, Vancouver, and Dubai.
Justin Leroy is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. His first book, Freedom's Limit: Slavery and Its Afterlives in the Long Nineteenth Century, will be published in the History of U.S. Capitalism series at Columbia University Press.
L. Joyce Zapanta Mariano is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Hawai'i–Mānoa. Her research interrogates the cultural politics of Filipino diaspora and homeland return through discourses and practices of aid, compassion, and solidarity.
erin Khuê Ninh is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her monograph on intergenerational conflict in immigrant families, Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature (NYU), was recognized for Best Literary Criticism by the Association for Asian American Studies in 2013. [End Page 310]
Sameer Pandya is the author of The Blind Writer: Stories and a Novella. He has published articles on sport and race in South Asian Popular Culture and Amerasia, as well as in the...
