The Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University
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Karen Shimakawa

Associate Professor, Performance Studies
Ph.D., 1995 (English), University of Washington; M.A., 1991 (English), University of Virginia; J.D., 1989, University of California, Hastings College of the Law; B.A., 1986 (English), University of California, Berkeley

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Areas of Research/Interest: Asian American performance/cultural studies; critical race theory; transnational/diaspora studies; intercultural performance.

External Affiliations: Modern Language Association; American Studies Association; Association of Asian American Studies; Association for Theatre in Higher Education.

Fellowships/Honors: University of California Humanities Research Institute Convener/Fellow (Transnationalisms & Intercultural Performance, 2002); Rockefeller/Ford Writers Fellow (APPEX, 1999); U.C. Davis Humanities Institute Fellow (1999); Robert Penn Warren Humanities Center Fellow (1996-97).

Select Publications:

National Abjection: The Asian American Body on Stage (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2002);
 
Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora, co-editor (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2001)

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