Biography Website Leslie Bow is fourth-generation Chinese American hailing from the Bay Area. She is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of English and Asian American Studies and Dorothy Draheim Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of the award-winning, ‘Partly Colored’: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South (New …
Biography Website Cindy I-Fen Cheng is a historian by training with an emphasis in feminist studies and critical theory. After taking her first Asian American Studies course as an undergraduate at the University of California, Los Angeles, she was hooked. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of California, Irvine, hoping that one day she …
Biography Website Peggy Myo-Young Choy (M.F.A., 2006) is a Professor of Dance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Specializing in Asian dance (Korean and Javanese forms), Asian martial and vital energy arts, she teaches her contemporary Dance Noetics that encompasses Asian/Asian American dance, martial arts and vital energy thought, practice, and explorations into Afro-Asian fusion. Her …
Biography Website Lori Kido Lopez is Professor of Communication Arts and Associate Dean for Social Sciences in the College of Letters & Science. Her research examines how Asian Americans engage with media both as audiences and producers, addressing issues of representation, access, and community advocacy. Dr. Lopez is the author of Asian American Media Activism: …
Biography Website Timothy Yu is Professor of English and Asian American Studies. He is the author of Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry Since 1965 (Stanford University Press), which won the Book Award in Literary Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies, and the editor of Nests and Strangers: On Asian …