About

Julia H. Lee is associate professor of Asian American Studies at UC Irvine. She is the author of two books: Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African- and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937 (NYU Press 2011), and Understanding Maxine Hong Kingston (University of South Carolina Press, 2018). She is currently working on a book titled The Racial Railroad which examines the train as a space of racial formation and conflict. She received her PhD in English from UCLA and is a former University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow.