Asian Diasporas: Cultures, Indentity, Representation

Contributors

Contributors Ryan Bishop is an Associate Professor of English and American studies at the National University o f Singapore. Among his publications ar e works on international sex tourism in Thailand, critical theory, rhetoric, urbanism, visual culture, and the history of technology in relation to the university, the military, and aesthetics. Ann Brooks has published extensively in the area of globalization, gender and organizationa l change , citizenship an d socia l justice, academi c women and equity, contemporary feminisms, cultural theory and politics, and postcolonialism and feminism. Dr Brooks is the author of Academic Women; Postfeminisms: Feminism, Cultural Theory and Cultural Forms; and with Alison Mackinnon, Gender and the Restructured University: Changing Management and Culture in Higher Education. Robbie B . H. Go h (Ellgohbh@nus.edu.sg ) teache s a t th e Nationa l University of Singapore. His recent publications include Sparks of Grace: The Story of Methodismin Asia; Singapore Space and the Dialogics of Culture (forthcoming); and various articles on Asian studies, gothic literature, and popular culture. 200฀Contributors฀ Regina Lee is currently in the process of completing her PhD in English and comparativ e literatur e at Murdoch University , where sh e has als o taught in the School of Arts and Schoo l of Media, Communication an d Culture. Her research and teaching interests include the Chinese diaspora, film an d literar y narratives , multicultural/rac e an d representationa l issues. Carol E. Leon is a lecturer, and currently head, of the English Department at the University of Malaya. She teaches postcolonial literature and theory as well as travel writings and eighteenth-century literature. Among he r more recen t publication s ar e "Trave l Writin g an d th e Humanities " i n Ideya (2002) and "Textual Travel: Creating the Homespace and the Search for Belongin g i n Michae l Ondaatje' s Running in the Family," i n Asian Journal of Social Science (2003). Walter S. H. Lim is an Associate Professo r o f English literatur e a t th e National Universit y o f Singapore . H e teache s Englis h Renaissanc e literature and Asian-American literature, and is the author of The Arts of Empire: The Poetics of Colonialism fromRalegh to Milton (1998) . Rajeshwar Mittapalli teaches English in Kakatiya University, Warangal, India. H e ha s authore d The Novels of Wole Soyinka an d Indian Women Novelists and Psychoanalysis and edited more than 20 anthologies of essays on a wide range of literary topics. He is currently the editor of the wellknown literary journal Atlantic Literary Review. Alessandro Monti teaches Shakespearean dram a i n the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Turin. He is the Italian translator of Raja Ra o an d collaborate s wit h India n publisher s an d academi c institutions. His books include Durga Marga and The Time after Cowdust. He has also edited tw o collection s of essays: Hindu Masculinities across the Ages (2002 ) and Migrating the Text: Hybridity as a Postcolonial Literary Construct (2003) . Wenche Ommundse n teache s literar y an d cultura l studie s a t Deaki n University, Australia . Sh e i s th e autho r o f Metafictions: Reflexivity in Contemporary Texts (1993) and the editor (or co-editor) oi Refractions: Asian/ Australian Writing (1995) , From a Distance: Australian Writers and Cultural Contributors฀20 1฀ Displacement (1996) , Appreciating Difference: Writing Postcolonial Literary History (1998) , and Bastard Moon: Essays on Chinese-Australian Writing (2001). She i s currentl y completin g a boo k o n cultura l citizenshi p i n diasporic populations . Jeffrey F . L. Partridge i s a n Assistan t Professo r o f Englis h a t Centra l Connecticut Stat e University . H e teache s America n literatur e an d specializes i n Asian-America n literature . H e live d an d taugh t i n Singapore from 199 2 to 2002. John Phillips teache s a t the National University o f Singapore. He ha s published book s an d article s o n philosoph y an d literature , postmodernism, postcolonialism , critica l theory , urbanism , aesthetics , and military technology, and has recently edited, with Ryan Bishop and Wei-Wei Yeo, two books on urbanism in Southeast Asia. Rebecca Sultana received her PhD in postcolonial theory and literatur e from Texa s Christian Universit y an d...