Contributors
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Cindy I-Fen Cheng is an assistant professor in the Department of History and the Program in Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled, Locating Race in Cold War America.
Yu-Fang Cho is Assistant Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Miami University of Ohio, Oxford. She has published in American Quarterly, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, Arizona Quarterly, and U.S. Popular Print Culture, 1860–1920 (Oxford History of Popular Print Culture Series, forthcoming). Her book manuscript, Reconceiving Labor: Race and Deviant Intimacies in Cultures of the U.S. Empire, 1890–1910, examines the interplay between the legal constitution of white heteronormativity and cultural representations that contest the power of this norm in the context of U.S. trans-Pacific expansionism.
Evelyn Hu-DeHart is Professor of History and Ethnic Studies and Director of Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University. Her latest publications include Voluntary Organizations in the Chinese Diaspora, co-edited with Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce (Hong Kong University Press, 2006), in which she has an essay entitled “Voluntary Associations in a Predominantly Male Immigrant Community: The Chinese on the Northern Mexican Frontier, 1880–1930.” She co-edited (with Kathleen López) a special issue of Afro-Hispanic Review on the theme, “Afro-Asia” (Vol. 17, no. 1, Spring 2008).
Young-Oak Lee is the author of Gender and History: Understanding U. S. Multiethnic Literatures and is currently Dean of the Graduate School of Translation and TESOL, Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul. Her recent interviews with Changrae Lee, Nora Okja Keller, and Margaret Drabble have appeared in prominent academic journals in the U. S.: Amerasia Journal, MELUS, and Contemporary Literature. She served as President of The English Language and Literature Association of Korea to help celebrate its 50th Founding Anniversary in 2004. [End Page 133]
Victor Roman Mendoza is a visiting assistant professor at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. He has published essays in American Literature; ELH (formerly English Literary History); and Asian American Subgenres, 1853–1941, a special issue of Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture on early Asian American writing. He is currently completing a book manuscript, Fantasy Islands: Illicit Desires and the Philippines in American Imperialism.
Glen Mimura is an associate professor of film and media studies and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Ghostlife of Third Cinema: Asian American Film and Video (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
Nancy Yunhwa Rao is Associate Professor of Music at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Her research includes American ultra-modernist composers, gender and music, early Chinese American music, and Chinese American composers. A recipient of ACLS and the NEH fellowships, she is currently writing a book on Chinatown opera theaters during Chinese Exclusion that deals with transnational, political, legal, social, musical, and visual aspects of the musical life of Chinese Americans.
Beverly Yuen Thompson is an Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at Texas Woman’s University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the New School. [End Page 134]
