Contributors
- Contributors
Nandini Bhattacharya is professor of English at Texas A&M University. Her most recent publication is a book on Indian cinema's stance toward history as a vehicle of repetition and a vector of liminal identities titled Hindi Cinema: Repeating the Subject (2012). She teaches courses on gender theory, film, South Asian studies, and postcolonial studies. She is the founder of the South Asia Working Group at Texas A&M University. She is currently working on a book on risk, affect, and aesthetic in South Asia.
Howard Chiang is assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Davis. He is the editor of Transgender China (2012), Queer Sinophone Cultures (2013, with Ari Larissa Heinrich), Psychiatry and Chinese History (2014), Historical Epistemology and the Making of Modern Chinese Medicine (2015), and Perverse Taiwan (2016, with Yin Wang). His monograph, After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformations of Sex in Modern China, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. [End Page 631]
Daniel McKay is associate professor at Doshisha University, Japan. His work on Plomer and van der Post began during a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Pretoria, sponsored by the National Research Foundation (South Africa), and has subsequently been presented in an abridged form at the LibrAsia Conference, Kobe, April 7–10, 2016. Dr. McKay's articles have appeared in Comparative Literature Studies, MELUS, Orbis Litterarum, and The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, among others.
Teri Silvio is an associate research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Her research topics include opera, puppetry, animation fandom, and figurine design in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia. She has published in Cultural Anthropology, the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Mechademia, and positions, and has curated a museum exhibit on figurines in Chinese culture.
Vanessa B. Ward teaches East Asian history at the University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand). Her research focuses on intellectual culture in early postwar Japan and prominent Japanese women intellectuals. She is currently preparing a biography of the Christian academic Chō Takeda Kiyoko.
Takehiro Watanabe is an associate professor of anthropology at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. His research focuses on the anthropology of economic cultures, ranging from mining communities to river resource management. [End Page 632]
