Asian North American Identities: Beyond the Hyphen

Contributors

Contributors Jeannie Chiu is Assistant Professor of English at Pace University in New York City. Her publications include “Uncanny Doubles: Nationalism and Repression in Frank Chin’s ‘Railroad Standard Time,’”in Hitting Critical Mass, and “Specularity and Identity in Invisible Man,” in Critical Sense. She is working on a book on the cultural aesthetics of the uncanny in twentieth-century African American and Asian American literatures. 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 (2000). In 1999 she was a visiting scholar at the American Studies Centre of the National University of Singapore. Her recent works have appeared in Arizona Quarterly, Diaspora, The MLA Research Guide to Asian American Literature, and Asian Paci¤c Heritage. Rocío G.Davis has degrees from the Ateneo de Manila University and the University of Navarra, where she is Associate Professor of American and Postcolonial Literature. Her recent publications include Transcultural Reinventions: Asian American and Asian Canadian Short Story Cycles (2001), Asian American Literature in the International Context: Readings on Fiction, Poetry, and Performance (co-edited with Sami Ludwig; 2002),and Tricks with a Glass: Writing Ethnicity in Canada (co-edited with Rosalia Baena; 2001). Donald C. Goellnicht is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at McMaster University. He is author of The Poet-Physician: Keats and Medical Science (1984) and has edited New Romanticisms: Theory and Critical Practice (1994) with David Clark. He has published articles on Asian American literature and theory,on the genesis of Asian Canadian literature,and on writers such as Joy Kogawa, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sky Lee, and Fae Myenne Ng. Karlyn Koh is an assistant professor of English at the City University of New York’s LaGuardia Community College. She held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellowship at New York University , and has taught at CUNY’s Hunter College and Montclair State University. Her work on avant-garde poetry and Asian North American literature has appeared in publications such as the New Scholars–New Visions in Canadian Studies Quarterly Monograph Series, Tessera, Canadian Literature, West Coast Line, Xcp: Cross-Cultural Politics, and B.C. Asian Review. Her teaching appoint- ments include positions at the City University of New York’s Hunter College and Montclair State University. Josephine Lee is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is author of Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage (1997) and co-editor of Re/collecting Early Asian America: Readings in Cultural History (2002). She has written numerous essays on modern and contemporary American and British theater. She is currently completing a project on racial politics and contemporary American theater. LeiLani Nishime is an Assistant Professor of American Multicultural Studies at Sonoma State University. Her research areas include Asian American cinema, museum studies, interracial relations, and multiracial identities. She has published in MELUS and has contributed to the collection Asian American Autobiographers . She has an article on Vietnam War ¤lms forthcoming in American Visual Cultures. She is currently working on a book project examining representations of interracial, Asian American relations in mainstream Hollywood¤lm and is co-editor of the forthcoming anthology Asian American Popular Culture. Caroline Rody is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Her publications include The Daughter’s Return: African American and Caribbean Women’s Fictions of History (2001) and an article about Karen Tei Yamashita ’s Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, in comparison to Toni Morrison’s Jazz, in Contemporary Literature. Her current project examines contemporary Asian American novels, including works by Karen Tei Yamashita, Chang-rae Lee, and Gish Jen, in the light of the increasingly interethnic imagination of contemporary American ¤ction. Jeffrey J. Santa Ana is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Mount Holyoke College, where he teaches courses in Asian American literature , critical globalization studies, American literature, and literary theory. He has published articles on Asian American literature and on racial identity in Herman Melville’s novels and is currently working on a book entitled “Feeling Identity: Affect, Race, and Ethnic American Literature in an Age of Global Capital.” Malini Johar Schueller is Neikirk Term Professor, 2002–2003, in the department of English at the University of Florida, where she teaches courses on race and American literature,women of color,Asian American studies,and postcolonial theory. She is the author of The Politics of Voice...