David L. Eng is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English and Faculty Director of the Program in Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy and Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America and coauthor of Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans, all also published by Duke University Press.