Contributors
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Yi-Ting Chang is a doctoral student in English and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include transpacific studies, environmental humanities, and feminist theory. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in ISLE, MELUS, and JAAS.
Elizabeth Clark Rubio is a doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. She conducts ethnographic research on how progressive Korean American immigrant rights organizers navigate multiracial coalition building in New York City and Los Angeles.
Quynh Nhu Le is an assistant professor of English at the University of South Florida. She specializes in comparative race and settler colonial studies, Asian American literature, Native American/Indigenous literature, and theories of affect and embodiment. She is completing a monograph that analyzes Asian and Indigenous encounters as they are represented in Asian and Indigenous literatures in the Américas.
Wen Liu is assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She focuses her research on the engagement between global social movements and psychological theories on racial, gender, and sexual subjectivities, particularly at the intersection of LGBTQ and diasporic Asian American experiences.
Kimberly McKee is the director of the Kutsche Office of Local History and an assistant professor in liberal studies at Grand Valley State University.
Suchitra Samanta is a cultural anthropologist, and an assistant professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Virginia Tech. Her research interests focus on intersecting issues of minority status, gender, and class as these relate to education. Her published work draws from fieldwork in an impoverished Muslim community in Kolkata, India, the cultural obstacles to education confronted by girls, but also factors that facilitate educational achievement for some. She teaches courses on gender and Asian America.
Shelley Sang-Hee Lee is associate professor of history and chair of Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College. She is the author or co-editor of several books in Asian American studies, most recently the Companion to Korean American Studies (2018). She is working on a book about Koreans in America from 1965 to 1992.
Leland Tabares is a postdoctoral fellow in English at the Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on contemporary Asian American literature and culture, with interests in professional labor economies, institutionality, and neoliberalism. He has work published in Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association and forthcoming in Profession.
Sharon Tran is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC and will be starting as an assistant professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in fall 2018. Her scholarly work focuses on multiethnic American and Asian American literatures with an emphasis on gender studies. She is currently working on a book project that takes up the “Asian girl” as a portal for exploring questions of power, neoliberal subject formation, and vulnerability.
Nicolyn Woodcock is a doctoral candidate in the English literature program at Miami University in Ohio. Her research focuses on Asian American literature and transpacific American empire, especially the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and foodways in narratives emerging from the Asian American spaces and legacies of U.S. militarization since WWII. Her article “Tasting the ‘Forgotten War’: Korean/American Memory and Military Base Stew” can be found in the February 2018 issue of JAAS.
