Introducing Participants (與會者簡歷)

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Name	Affiliation	Title and Abstract	Note
Campomanes, Oscar	Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines	Filipino/Asian American Studies in the Philippine Academy: Problems, Patterns, Prospects	Oscar Campomanes is currently a professor of Department of English at Ateneo de Manila University.
Chen, Kuan-hsing (陳光興)	National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan		Chen Kuan-hsing is currently a professor of Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He is the author of De-imperialization—Asia as method (A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, 2006), The Imperialist Eye (Creation and Criticism Publisher, 2003), and  Media/Cultural Critique: A Popular Democratic Line of Flight (Tan-san,1996). He has also published many other journal articles and (co)edited many books.
Fujikane, Candaece	University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA	Undoing the Frame within the Frame: Critical Asian American Studies, Settler Colonialism, and New International Alliances	Candace Fujikane is currently a professor of Department of English at University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is the editor of Asian Settler Colonialism: from Local Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawai’i (co-edited with Jonathan Y. Okamura) (U of Hawai’i P, 2008).
Guo, Yingjian (郭英劍)	Minzhu University, China	Facing Shadows: Where is the Home of a Writer as a Migrant?	Guo Yingjian is University Professor and Dean of the School of Foreign Studies at the Minzu University of China in Beijing. He specializes in British and American literary studies, Chinese American studies, critical theory and translation studies. Dr. Guo has published over 80 research papers, and edited some books including Pearl S. Buck: A Collection of Chinese Criticisms (1999). Among his translations are E. L. Doctorow’s Creationists: Selected Essays, 1995-2006 (2010), Perry Anderson’s A Zone of Engagement (2008), Joyce Carol Oates’ The Falls (2006), John Tomlinson’s Globalization and Culture (2002) and J. H. Miller’s Reclaiming Deconstruction: A Collection of Essays (1998).
Hihara, Mie (桧原美恵)	Kyoto Women's University, Japan	How Asian American Studies Has Evolved in Japan with a Focus on Asian American Literature Studies	Hirara Mie teaches American literature, Asian studies, Japanese American and Japanese Canadian literature at Department of English Studies at Kyoto Women’s University. She co-edited and co-translated some books and has published some journal essays about Asian American literature.
Jaidka, Manju	Panjab University, India	Asian American Studies in India, Circa 2010	Manju Jaidka is currently a professor of Department of English and Cultural Studies at Panjab University, India. She received her Ph.D. at Panjab University and teaches poetry, drama, world literatures, and American literature. She is the author of T.S. Eliot’s Popular Sources (Edwin Mellen P, 1998) and Twentieth-Century British and American Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Panjab University Publication, 2002) and many other research papers.
Lee, Kun Jong	Korea University, South Korea	Korean/Asian American Literary Studies in Korea, 1964-2009	Lee Kun Jong is currently a professor of Department of English Language and Literature at Korea University, South Korea. He has published articles on ethnic American literature and Asian American Literature in African American Review, CLA Journal, positions: east asia cultures critique, and so on. His recent journal articles are Rewriting Hesiod, Revisioning Korea: Theresa Hak Kyung cha’s Dictee as a Subversive Hesiodic Catalogue of Women (College Literature 33.3, 2006) and Princess Pari in Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman (positions 12.2, 2004).
Lum, Wing Tek	Bamboo Ridge, USA		Lum Wing Tek is a poet based in Honolulu and has written many poems. He is the winner of 1970 Poetry Center Award (Discovery/The National Award) and 1988 American Book Award.
Nakamura, Rika (中村理香)	Sejio University, Japan	Re-positioning Themselves as Western and Minority Subjects: Internationalizing/ Locating Asian American Studies in “Asia”	Nakamura Rika is currently a professor of General Education of Economics at Seijo University. Her research field is Asian North American literature, gender theories, and postcolonialism. Her recent publication is: Attending the Languages of the Other: Recuperating "Asia,"Abject, Other in Asian North American Literature (Ph.D. Diss. Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 2009).
Nguyen, Viet	University of Southern California	"Transpacific Crossings: Intersections of Area Studies, Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies"	Viet Nguyen is currently a professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at University of Southern California. He received his B.A. in English and Ethnic Studies and Ph.D. in English at UC Berkeley. He is the author or Race and Resistance and has some essays published on many journals. He is also a writer of some short stories.
Park, Hyungji	Yonsei University, South Korea	Imagined Asias, Imagined Americas: Reading Asian American Literature Across the Pacific	Park Hyungji is currently a professor of Department of English at Yonsei University, South Korea. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in English at Princeton University.
Parry, Amie (白瑞梅)	National Central University, Taiwan	The Question of Asian American Studies in Asia: Toward a Critical Comparativism	Aime Parry is currently a professor of Department of English at National Central University, Taiwan. Her fields of specialty are literary modernisms, Taiwan poetry, postcolonial theory, gender theory, fantasy literatures and visual cultures, and American literature. Her latest book, Interventions into Modernist Cultures: Poetry from Beyond the Empty Screen (Duke UP, 2007), won the 2009 Association of Asian American Studies.
Sato, Gayle	Meiji University, Japan	Atrocity Photo Poetry: A Reading of Wing Tek Lum's "Nanjing Series"	Gayle Sato is currently a professor of Department of Literature of School of Arts and Letters at Meiji University, Japan. His research fields are American literature, feminism, psychoanalysis, and children’s literature.
Shan, Te-hsing (單德興)	Academia Sinica, Taiwan		Shan Te-hsing is currently a researcher and director at Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. His fields of specialty are European and American literature, Asian American literature, cultural studies, and translation studies. His recent books are Transgressions and Innovations (Taipei: Asian Culture Co., 2008) and Translations and Contexts (Beijing: Tsinghua UP, 2007).
Shin, Kyung Sook	Yonsei University, South Korea	Theorizing the Difference Between Asia and Asian-America: Poetics of Asian-American Literature	Kyung-Sook Shin is an associate professor of English at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. She teaches British Romantic Literature, Children’s Literature and Culture, and Feminism. She is currently editing Feminist Studies in English Literature published by the Korean Association of Feminist Scholars in English Literature.
Tee, Kimtong (張錦忠)	National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan	Chinese American Literature, Asian American Literature . . . in Taiwan: A Diasporic Sinophone Malaysian Perspective	Tee Kimtong is currently a professor of Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. His research fields are Medieval English Literature, Literary Theory, Translation Studies, and Southeast Asian Anglophone and Sinophone Literature.
Yoneyama, Lisa	University of California, San Diego		Lisa Yoneyama is currently a professor of Department of Literature and director of Critical Gender Studies Program at University of California, San Diego. She received her B.A. in German Language Studies and M.A. in International Relations at Sophia University, Tokyo, and Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at Stanford University, California.