Contributors
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Youngsuk Chae is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Pembroke. She is the author of Politicizing Asian American Literature: Towards a Critical Multiculturalism (2008) and a co-editor of the book Asian American Literature and the Environment (2015).
Tara Fickle is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oregon, and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Ethnic Studies, the New Media & Culture Certificate, and the Center for Asian & Pacific Studies. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her B.A. from Wesleyan University. Her book, The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities, is forthcoming. More information can be found at www.ficklet.wordpress.com.
Cala Gin is a junior at Chapman University, where she is currently majoring in integrated educational studies and double minoring in Japanese Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies. She aspires to pursue a career in special education and to work in an international setting.
Dorcas Hoi is a graduate of Chapman University with a Bachelor of Arts in Integrated Educational Studies. She is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Curriculum and Instruction at Chapman University.
Joseph Jonghyun Jeon is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Vicious Circuits: Korea’s IMF Cinema and the End of the American Century (2019) and Racial Things, Racial Forms: Objecthood in Avant-Garde Asian American Poetry (2012).
Lori Kido Lopez is Associate Professor of Communication Arts and an affiliate faculty member in Asian American Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of Asian American Media Activism: Fighting for Cultural Citizenship and a co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Asian American Media.
Alden Sajor Marte-Wood is a PhD candidate in English at the University of California, Irvine, with designated emphases in Asian American Studies and Critical Theory. His research focuses on Filipino American and Philippine Anglo-phone literatures with a focus on gendered and racialized transnational labor.
James McMaster will begin as Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Fall 2019. His current book project puts the discourse of care theory into conversation with queer, feminist, and Asian Americanist critique and cultural production. He earned his PhD in Performance Studies from New York University.
Azalia Muchransyah is a doctoral student in Media Study at University at Buffalo, State University of New York (SUNY). Her area of interest is advocacy media, specifically AIDS media. Her short films include Halal (2017), HIV/AIDS: Not a Death Sentence (2018), and Blue Film (2018). You can find more information about her and her work on her website: https://azalia.myportfolio.com.
Florencia Park is an undergraduate student at Chapman University pursuing her Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Integrated Educational Studies. She is currently researching effective high school mentoring programs for people of color for her capstone course.
Michelle Samura is Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education in the Attallah College of Educational Studies at Chapman University. She also is the founding Co-Director of the Collaborate Initiative.
Natalie Santizo is a doctoral student in Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on mapping Latina/o foodways: the production, consumption, and distribution of foods and foodstuffs in the United States during the early twentieth century.
Caroline Yang is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery: The Minstrel Form and the Chinese Worker in American Literature (forthcoming).
