Contributors
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Aimee Bahng is an Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College. She locates her teaching and research interests at the conjuncture of transnational Asian/American cultural studies and feminist-queer science and technology studies. Her book Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times is forthcoming with Duke University Press. She has also published a range of articles in Asian American literary and cultural studies in Journal of American Studies, MELUS, and Critical Inquiry. Her current book project, Transpacific Ecologies, reroutes discussions about new materialisms through feminist, decolonial science studies and focuses specifically on transpacific contexts of nuclear fallout and ecological disaster.
Christopher T. Fan is a UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the English Department at UC Riverside, and, in fall 2017, will be an Assistant Professor in the English Department at UC Irvine. He is also a senior editor at Hyphen magazine, which he co-founded. His scholarly work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in American Quarterly, The Journal of Transnational American Studies, and Post45: Peer Reviewed.
Lisa Ho is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her work examines the construction of North Korea in U.S. popular and political culture through a transnational Asian American studies framework.
Michelle N. Huang is a dual-degree doctoral student in the Departments of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Her dissertation project examines posthumanist aesthetics in contemporary Asian American literature and culture. Her articles on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature have appeared in Twentieth-Century Literature, Amerasia, and the Journal of Medical Humanities. [End Page 135]
Stefan Hübner is a historian of colonialism, modernization, and development policy. Currently, he is a postdoc at Bundeswehr University Munich. He was awarded fellowships at NUS, Harvard University, and the Wilson Center (Washington, D.C.). His book—Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia, 1913–1974—was published by NUS Press.
Lori Kido Lopez is Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies in the Communication Arts Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is affiliated with the Asian American Studies Program and the Gender and Women’s Studies Department, and the author of Asian American Media Activism: Fighting for Cultural Citizenship (2016).
Christine Mok is Assistant Professor of Drama and Performance in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati. At UC, she is the Director of the Helen Weinberger Center for the Study of Drama and Playwriting. She is currently completing her first book project, which uses intermediality and theatricality as critical optics to examine the shifting politics and poetics of inauthenticity in contemporary Asian American performance. She has published in Theatre Survey, Modern Drama, and PAJ: A Performing Arts Journal.
Lilly U. Nguyen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research draws from the fields of information studies, feminist science and technology studies, and Asian American studies and explores the dynamics of ethnicity, expertise, and information technologies in transnational circulation. Her recent scholarship has been published in the Journal of Peer Production, New Media and Society, and the Journal of Cultural Economy. Additionally, her work has been recognized by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Fulbright Institute of International Education. She received her Ph.D. in information studies at UCLA.
Leilani Nishime is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Washington. She is the author of Undercover Asians: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture (University of Illinois, 2014) and the co-editor of Global Asian American Popular Cultures and East Main Street, both from NYU Press. She has published in book collections and journals including Cinema Journal, Critical Studies in Media Communication, MELUS, Communication Theory, Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Amerasia. [End Page 136]
Crystal Parikh is Associate Professor of English and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is the author of An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literature and Culture (Fordham University Press, 2009) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Asian...
