COURSES
CA 346 - Critical Internet Studies
CA 613 - Race, Gender, and the Internet
CA 613 - Asian American Media (meets w/ Asian American Studies 560)
CA 950 - Internet and Cultural Studies

ACTIVITIES
This is my first year in the Communication Arts department, and I was hired as part of a cluster hire in Visual Culture Studies last year. Cluster hires are designed to accommodate people with widely interdisciplinary interests, and to promote near areas of study across the campus. I work in the new scholarly discipline of cyberculture studies, and my most recent book _Cybertypes_ deals with cross racial passing in textual and graphical chatspaces, representations of race in technology and Internet advertising, the appearance of racialized images amidst "race-free" techno utopias, and race in cyberpunk film. Much of the research was done around 1995, which was right around the time that the graphical web became a popular medium.

My next book, tentatively entitled "Visual Culture of Race in Cyberspace" will deal with visual aspects of race on the web and other information and media practices. I teach courses in new media and my specialty is on the ethnic study of technodiscourses and cyberspaces, which is why I have disciplinary ties to the Asian American Studies program at UW.

My previous academic appointment was at Sonoma State University in Northern California, where I taught postcolonial literature and theory as a tenure track Assistant Professor of English.

DEGREES

• Ph.D. in English, CUNY Graduate Center, 1996
  
• B.A. in English, Reed College, 1987
  

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet. New York and London: Routledge, 2002.

Race In Cyberspace. [Edited, with Beth Kolko and Gilbert Rodman] New York and London: Routledge, 2000.

Book Chapters:
"Race" in The Internet and American Life, Ed. Phil Howard and Steve Jones, Thousand Oaks and London: Sage Press, forthcoming 2002.

"Remastering the Internet: the Work of Race in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," in Archaeology of Multi-media, Ed. Wendy Chun, New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2002.

"Race in the Construct, or the Construction of Race: New Media and Old Identities in The Matrix" in Domain Errors! A Cyberfeminist Handbook of Tactics, Eds. Michelle Wright, Maria Fernandez, and Faith Wilding, New York: Autonomedia Press, forthcoming 2002.

"After/Images of Identity: Gender, Technology, and Identity Politics" in Reload: Rethinking Woman + Culture, Eds. Austin Booth and Mary Flanagan, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.

"Race" in Unspun: Key Terms for the World Wide Web and Culture, Ed. Thomas Swiss, New York: New York University Press, 2001.

"Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism on the Internet" in The Cybercultures Reader, Ed. David Bell, New York and London: Routledge Press, 2000 and in CyberReader, 2nd edition, Ed. Victor Vitanza, New York: Allyn and Bacon,1999.

"'Where Do You Want to Go Today?'" Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet, and Transnationality" in Race In Cyberspace. [Edited, with Beth Kolko and Gilbert Rodman] New York and London: Routledge, 1999.