Contributors
- Contributors
David J. Banks, songplayer@hotmail.com, has performed field research in Malaysia for several decades. His publications include Malay Kinship (1983) examining local tools for understanding and building social relationships and From Class to Culture: Social Conscience in Malay Novels Since Independence (1987). His other publications include works on kinship and Malay writers’ visions of Malay culture and society, and he is currently studying the role of prayer in Malay society. He teaches anthropology at the University at Buffalo.
Katharine A. Burnett, kburnet1@utk.edu, is a doctoral student at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She recently completed a master’s degree in literature from the University of Mississippi where her thesis discussed travel in antebellum southern literature, particularly slave narratives and Old Southwest humor stories. Her areas of specialization include nineteenth-century literature and literature of the U.S. South.
Frank Cha, fschax@wm.edu, is a Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. His research and teaching interests include southern literature and film, Asian Pacific American studies, and landscape photography. He is currently completing his dissertation titled “Southern Orientation: Navigating Asian American Identity and Place in Literature and Film of the Global South.”
Vernadette Gonzalez, vvg@hawaii.edu, finished her PhD in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. She has previously taught in the Ethnic Studies Department and the Women’s Studies Department at UC Berkeley and the Global Studies Department at St. Lawrence University; she is currently an assistant professor at University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. Her current projects include a book manuscript that seeks to interrogate the links between modern military and touristic ideologies, cultures, and technologies of mobility and surveillance in the Philippines and Hawai‘i. Her published works can be found in several collections, including AsianAmerica.Net (Routledge, 2004), Alien Encounters: Asian Americans in Popular Culture (Duke UP, 2007) and in feminist journals such as Frontiers: A Journal for Women Studies and the International Feminist Journal of Politics. She also has a chapter on tourism and militarism in Bataan and Corregidor forthcoming in Engendering Empire: Colonialism and Tourism Across Asia and the Pacific (edited by Setsu Shigematsu and Keith Lujan Camacho, University of Minnesota Press). [End Page 173]
Jaime Harker, jlharker@olemiss.edu, is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. Her research interests include the Pacific Rim, book history, gay and lesbian studies, and twentieth-century American literature. She is the author of America the Middlebrow: Women’s Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship Between the Wars and the co-editor of The Oprah Affect: Critical Essays on Oprah’s Book Club. She is currently working on a book on Christopher Isherwood.
Jennifer Ho, jho@email.unc.edu, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English & Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She teaches courses on Asian American literature, contemporary American literature, and American Studies classes that examine race in American culture. Her research focuses on racial ambiguity and mixed race Asian Americans, which is also the topic of her current book project, “What ARE you?”: Racial Ambiguity in Contemporary Asian American Culture. “What ARE You?” tells a story about race in America—how race was formed as an analytical category for people with ancestral roots in Asia, how that category has passed through various definitions over the course of the late 20th century, and how Asian American epistemology helps us to see the place of Asian Americans (especially those who identify as “mixed-race”) in the story of American race relations as we move into the 21st century and a more nuanced understanding of our mixed-race American culture.
E. San Juan, Jr., philcsc@gmail.com, is director of the Philippines Cultural Studies Center, Storrs, Connecticut, USA. He received his graduate degrees from Harvard University. He was recently a fellow of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University. He served as professor of English, Comparative Literature and Ethnic Studies in several universities, the last as chair of the Comparative American Cultures Dept, Washington State University. He was recently Fulbright professor of American Studies at...
