Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1984

Interests

American Ethnic Literatures, Asian American Literature, Renaissance British Literature, specifically: comparative American ethnic literatures (African American, Native American, Chicano/o, and Asian American); Asian American literature (Chinese American, Filipino American, Japanese American, Korean American, South Asian American, Thai American, Vietnamese American); Comparative Heroic Traditions (Chinese, Japanese, Greek, British, and American) and Renaissance British Literature (Shakespeare, Milton, Marlowe).

Selected Works

Articulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa (Cornell,1993); editor of Words Matter: Conversations with Asian American Writers (U of Hawaii Press, 2000), An Interethnic Companion to Asian American literature (Cambridge, 1996), "Seventeen Syllables" (Rutgers, 1994), and Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography (MLA, 1988). Her articles have appeared in American Literary History, Biography, Bucknell Review, MELUS, Milton Studies, PMLA, and Shakespeare Quarterly.

Additional Information

She is also an associate editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and a co-editor of The Heath Anthology of American Literature. She has received an ACLS fellowship, a Mellon fellowship, a Fulbright lecturing and research award, and a resident fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford.

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