Contributors
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Joshua Chambers-Letson is assistant professor of performance studies at Northwestern University, where he also holds an appointment in the Program in Asian American Studies. He is the author of A Race So Different: Law and Performance in Asian America (New York University Press, 2013), winner of the 2014 Outstanding Book Award from the Association of Theater in Higher Education (ATHE).
Denise Cruz is an assistant professor of English at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina (Duke University Press, 2012) and the editor of Yay Panlilio’s The Crucible: An Autobiography of Colonel Yay, Filipina American Guerrilla (Rutgers University Press, 2009).
Christine Cynn is an assistant professor in the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has published articles in Women’s Studies Quarterly, Transformations, Particip’Action, and Camera Obscura (forthcoming), and is currently working on a book manuscript on HIV prevention media in Côte d’Ivoire.
Elizabeth Fei is a master’s degree candidate in critical ethnic studies at DePaul University. Her research interests include mixed-race theory, trans theory, and decolonization frameworks.
Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. is associate professor of Asian Pacific American studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. He is the author of Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego (Rutgers University Press, 2012) and co-editor of Transnational Crossroads: Remapping the Americas and the Pacific (University of Nebraska Press, 2012) with Camilla Fojas. [End Page 273]
Michele Janette is professor of English at Kansas State University. Her publications include the anthology of Vietnamese American writings Mỹ Việt: Vietnamese American Literature in English, 1962–Present, as well as articles on Monique Truong, Maxine Hong Kingston, Lan Cao, and Tony Bui.
Dinidu Karunanayake is a PhD student in the Department of English at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. His research examines intersections of postcoloniality and diasporic memory with a specific focus on South Asian American literary and cultural productions.
Christina Owens is visiting assistant professor in global and intercultural studies at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. By focusing on the figure of the native English teacher in contemporary Japan, her current book project queries the intersection of comparative racialization, hegemonic masculinities, and U.S. liberal empire. She has also published in Transformations and American Quarterly.
Frances Tran recently received her PhD in English and a certificate in American studies from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She will begin a leadership in the English department at Fordham University in Fall 2016. [End Page 274]
