Contributors
- Contributors
Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt is an associate professor of Japanese modern literature at Nagoya University, Japan, whose work has focused on geographies of marginality and marginalization in contemporary Japanese literature. She has widely published on Zainichi Korean minority literature, literary representations of precarity, and cultural responses to the 3/11 Fukushima disaster of 2011.
Young Ji Lee teaches East Asian art history and visual culture at Duke University. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Inventing a Visual Currency: Socialist Realism and East Asian Art.
Joanne Leow is an assistant professor of transnational and decolonizing literatures in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan. Her most recent work has been published in Journal of Asian American Studies, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, and University of Toronto Quarterly. Her first book manuscript, Counter-Cartographies: Reading against the Mapped City, considers the intersections of authoritarianism, spatial theory, and contemporary cultural production in Singapore. Her second project, "Intertidal Polyphonies," is a multisite study of urban ecologies in the coastal cities of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Vancouver. It is funded by a grant from Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Shaoling Ma is an assistant professor of humanities (literature) at Yale-NUS College, where she teaches and writes on media and media theory, Marxism, and global Chinese culture and politics. She has published in academic journals such as Science Fiction Studies, Configurations, and Mediations. Her first book, The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating China, 1861–1906 is forthcoming from Duke University Press (spring 2021). She is currently pursuing a second project on the recursions of digitality in contemporary media studies and global China.
Vicente L. Rafael is the Giovanni and Amne Costigan professor of history at the University of Washington, in Seattle. He is the author of numerous works on the cultural politics of the colonial and postcolonial Philippines, including Contracting Colonialism; White Love and Other Events in Filipino Histories; The Promise of the Foreign; and Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation. He has also edited Discrepant Histories: Translocal Essays on Filipino Cultures (1995); Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Colonial Vietnam (1999); and Nick Joaquin's The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic (2017).
Brian Tsui is associate professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and mainly teaches Chinese history. He is author of China's Conservative Revolution: The Quest for a New Order, 1927–1949 (2018).
Ben Whaley is assistant professor of Japanese in the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Calgary. His research examines discourses of ethno-racial identity and national trauma in postwar manga and Japanese video games.
We Jung Yi is assistant professor of Asian studies at Vanderbilt University. Her recent work has appeared in Journal of Korean Studies, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, and Verge: Studies in Global Asias. She is currently completing a monograph that explores Korean War memories as formed through literature, film, and digital media in South Korea.
