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Notes on Contributors Mita Banerjee is Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of Siegen, Germany. Her publications include The Chutneyfication of History: Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, Bharati Mukherjee and the Postcolonial Debate (Heidelberg: Winter 2002) and Racing the Century (Heidelberg: Winter 2005). She recently has become interested in a diasporic Asian cultural studies that would provide ways for looking at the role of Asian characters in German popular culture. She is currently working on a postcolonial reading of the American Renaissance. Mark Chiang holds a B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. from the University of CaliforniaBerkeley . He is currently an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he teaches courses in Asian American literature and multiethnic American literature. The essay in this volume derives from a book in progress, entitled “Representing Asian America: Race and Cultural Capital,” that examines the question of what constitutes the “political” within the academy. Patricia P. Chu is Associate Professor of English at George Washington University. She is the author of Assimilating Asians: Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America (Duke University Press, 2000) and a contributor to Asian American Identities Beyond the Hyphen (Indiana University Press); One Hundred Years of Korean Literature (Sigur Center, George Washington University); A Resource Guide to Asian American Literature (MLA); Arizona Quarterly; and Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies. Her current research interests include women’s autobiography, Asian American travel narratives, and engaged Buddhism. 228 \ N O T E S O N C O N T R I B U T O R S Rocı́o G. Davis is Associate Professor of American and Postcolonial Literatures and Director of the Institute of Liberal Arts at the University of Navarra, Spain.. Her publications include Transcultural Reinventions: Asian American and Asian Canadian Short Story Cycles (TSAR, 2001); Sites of Ethnicity: Europe and the Americas (co-edited with William Boelhower and Carmen Birkle, Winter Verlag, 2004); Asian American Literature in the International Context: Readings on Fiction, Poetry, and Performance (co-edited with Sämi Ludwig, LIT Verlag, 2002); andTricks with a Glass: Writing Ethnicity in Canada (co-edited with Rosalı́a Baena, Rodopi, 2000). She has recently edited a special issue of the journal MELUS on Filipino American literature, and is currently working on a book on Asian American autobiographies of childhood. Iyko Day is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is completing a dissertation examining literature, film, and visual art entitled “Dialectics of Asian North America: Queering a Transnational Place.” Donatella Izzo is professor of American Literature at Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale,” Italy. She has published books and essays on Henry James, on U.S. authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and on literary theory. Her most recent books are Portraying the Lady: Technologies of Gender in the Short Stories of Henry James (University of Nebraska Press, 2001) and “Contact Zones”:Rewriting Genre across the East-West Border (edited with Elena Spandri; Liguori, 2003) and America at Large. Americanistica transnazionale e nuova comparatistica, edited with Giorgio Mariani, (Shake, 2004). Kimberly M. Jew teaches theatre history and literature at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA. She received her Ph.D. from New York University where she focused on modern drama and American theatre. She has published in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, the Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature, and The Midwestern Modern Language Association Journal. She has recently received a Mellon Fellowship to complete her monograph on the experimental theatre of Elmer Rice. Sue-Im Lee is Assistant Professor of English at Temple University. Her teaching and research areas are contemporary U. S. fiction, Asian American literature, and formal innovative fiction. She is currently at work on a book project entitled Vexing Community in Contemporary U.S. Fiction. Christina Mar is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Riverside. She is currently at work on her dissertation, “Vexed Exchanges: Marriage and Mixed Race in the U.S. National Family,” which interrogates the discourses of family and nation underwriting constructions of mixed race Asian American literature. Josephine Nock-Hee Park is Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is presently at work on a study of the legacy of American Orientalism in Asian American poetry entitled Apparitions of Asia: Modernism’s Orient and Asian American Poetry. N O T E S O N C O N...