... the controversy around Yamanaka’s work to “teach the conflicts” of literary studies. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Blu’s Hanging Lois-Ann Yamanaka Association for Asian American Studies controversy Hawai’i Filipino American Japanese sexual predation close reading Works Cited Chan...

... at Virginia Tech, where she is also core faculty in the PhD program in rhetoric and writing. Her research and teaching interests are in the cultural politics of user experience design, Asian American rhetoric, and institutional rhetorics. She coedited Building a History, Having a Home: A History...

... American Studies .” Journal of Asian American Studies 1 : 269 – 92 . Said Edward W. 2003 . Freud and the Non-European . New York : Verso . Shu Yuan . 2005 . “ Globalization and ‘Asian Values’: Teaching and Theorizing Asian American Literature .” College Literature 32 : 87...

... on assistive technology and universal design. She enjoys integrating technology into content areas and collaborating with oth- ers on this process. erin Khuê Ninh is associate professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of a book...

... of literary reading and its implications for pedagogy. Karen M. Cardozo is a visiting Five College professor of Asian American Stud- ies at Amherst College. She previously taught English and American studies courses at Mount Holyoke College (where she served in multiple capacities as a dean...

... literature and the civiliza- tion of India, observes in her essay “The Outsider’s Gaze” (1996: 71 – 72) that despite her long years of acquired expertise in South Asian studies — includ- ing the “rigors of doctoral work, a dissertation, fieldwork in the Indian sub- continent, numerous South Asian...

..., I was interviewed for the first time for a position in which I might teach Asian American and women’s literature and creative writing. At that time I had not yet published my memoir or my two novels, so it was the poets who sat through my poetry reading and, as I learned later, discussed my...

... include the literature of the American South, Asian American literature, pedagogy of literature, com- parative race and ethnic studies, and global diaspora studies. In addition, she directs the University Honors Program, where she works to create a cur- riculum that emphasizes interdisciplinary...

... that are usually reserved for heterosexual white men. Bunkong Tuon is assistant professor of English at Union College, in Sche- nectady, New York. He teaches courses on ethnic literature, Asian-­American literature and history, the Vietnam War, and the works of Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston...

... of Color . San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books. Arendt, Hannah. 1953 . The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2nd ed. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace. Asian Women United of California, eds. 1989 . Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings by and about Asian American Women . Boston: Beacon. Banta, Martha. 1993...

... research for the redesigned Purdue OWL Web site. In addition to her writing center work, she maintains a Web site where she posts her stories on issues relating to Asian American and Hapa culture and identity. Jerry Farber is professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State...

... of short stories; and an award-winning memoir, Among the White Moon Faces (1996). Her coedited volume The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women s Anthology received the 1990 American Book Award. She was the UCSB Faculty Research Lecturer in 2002. Daniel T. Lochman is professor of English at Southwest...

... in comparative settler colonialism, including Palestine, and courses in postcolonial theory, Asian American studies, and US imperialism. Elina Siltanen was university lecturer at the Department of English, University of Turku at the time of writing this article, and now works at the University of Eastern...

... . Mao LuMing Young Morris . 2008 . Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric . Logan : Utah State University Press . Martinez Aja Y . 2016 . “ A Plea for Critical Race Theory Counterstory: Stock Story vs. Counterstory Dialogues Concerning Alejandra’s ‘Fit’ in the Academy...

... heterogeneity among East Asian nations. This work includes serious obstacles, not least of all because “teaching postcolonial East Asian ecocriticisms outside the region means teaching in a language and culture not of the region” (172). While most of ecocriticism is conducted in English, Estok includes...

... the world . . . walk out of our comfort zones yet we bring our identity with us. Our name is one of the most significant identities we carry.” That Pearl and Aarani explored microaggressions is significant given that, while discrimination against Asian and Asian American students is common, the experiences...

... had to reflect on his own subject positions as both an Asian American, who identifies with the struggle of other minorities, and a Cambodian, who must come to terms with his country’s historical tensions with Vietnam. Overall, the article demonstrates the importance of humanities teaching — where...

..., and South Asians. That is, I face similar hurdles as many other minority faculty across American campuses who teach topics considered controversial or taboo. In my literature courses, I am protected by the vast body of cul- tural/postcolonial/ethnic studies theory, pedagogy, and activism, all...

.... If I do a panel, whether fairly low-keyed or high-powered, let us say on the African American community, the audience will be, for the most part, African Americans. There will be very few Hispanics, very few Asians. If I do a panel on Asian Americans, almost no one who is not Asian American will show...

... Vietnam and the United States.” I talked about the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Beginning in 1988, veterans from different sides of the Vietnam/American War met at the William Joiner Center to talk about...