Contributors
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Anita Wen-Shin Chang
Anita Wen-Shin Chang is assistant professor of communication at Cal State East Bay. Her award-winning films have been presented at the Whitney Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Walker Arts Center, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the National Museum of Women. She is the author of Third Digital Documentary: A Theory and Practice of Transmedia Arts Activism, Critical Design, and Ethics (Peter Lang, 2020), and has published in positions, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, and Taiwan Journal of Indigenous Studies.
Wendy Cheng
Wendy Cheng is associate professor and chair of American studies at Scripps College. She is the author of The Changs Next Door to the Díazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and coauthor of A People's Guide to Los Angeles (with Laura Pulido and Laura Barraclough; University of California Press, 2012). Her articles and essays have been published in Amerasia Journal, EPD: Society and Space, Boom: A Journal of California, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. Her current book project focuses on the political activism of Taiwanese student migrants to the United States.
Leo T. S. Ching
Leo T. S. Ching teaches Japanese and East Asian cultural studies at Duke University. He is the author of Becoming Japanese: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation (University of California Press, 2001) and Anti-Japan: The Politics of Sentiment in Postcolonial East Asia (Duke University Press, 2019).
Leon J. Hilton
Leon J. Hilton is assistant professor of theatre and performance studies at Brown University. His research has been supported by a Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and the Mellon Foundation, and has been published in GLQ, African American Review, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, and TDR: The Drama Review.
Funie Hsu
Funie Hsu is assistant professor of American studies at San José State University. She is a former University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow and is an interdisciplinary scholar who examines US Empire and knowledge construction. Her first book project (under contract, University of Washington) investigates the function of English instruction, domesticity, and animality in the US colonization of the Philippines. Her second project examines race, American Buddhism, neoliberalism, and secular mindfulness. Her writing has appeared in American Quarterly, Educational Studies, CATESOL, L2 Journal, Buddhadharma, Lion's Roar, and Huffpost.com.
Malathi M. Iyengar
Malathi M. Iyengar is associate professor of ethnic studies at College of San Mateo (CSM), an open-access public community college in the San Francisco Bay area. She holds a PhD in ethnic studies from the University of California, San Diego (2017). When not teaching, she can be found working on a book project that traces the circulations of Krishnalal Shridharani's War without Violence (1939) among networks of young African American scholar-activists during the 1940s.
Wen Liu
Wen Liu is assistant research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica. She received her PhD from Critical Social Psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is currently working on a book project, tentatively titled Assembling Asian American: Psychological Technologies and Queer Subjectivities (forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press), and coediting a book volume, Reorienting Hong Kong's Struggle: Leftism, Decoloniality, and Internationalism, with Palgrave Macmillan.
Nathaniel Mills
Nathaniel Mills is associate professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is the author of Ragged Revolutionaries: The Lumpenproletariat and African American Marxism in Depression-Era Literature (University of Massachusetts Press, 2017) and, most recently, a contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Richard Wright and The Cambridge Companion to American Literature of the 1930s. He is currently at work on a book project titled Workshopping Blackness: Writing Workshops and the Production of Twentieth-Century African American Literature.
Camille S. Owens
Camille S. Owens is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She received her PhD in American studies and African American studies from Yale in 2020, and her dissertation, "Blackness and the Human Child," was the winner of the American Studies Association's 2020 Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize. She is currently working on her first book on...
