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About Julia Lee
I'm a professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine and the author of three books: The Racial Railroad (NYU Press, 2022), Understanding Maxine Hong Kingston (Univ of South Carolina Press, 2018), and Interracial Encounters (NYU Press, 2011). My research is in American literary fiction with a specialization in Asian American literatures and African American literatures. I teach broadly in Asian American studies, including courses on Asian American Communities, Asian American Popular Culture, and Korean American experience. Two of my books have been featured on the NBN and I have always enjoyed listening to the podcast. I have also noticed of late that there isn't a host who is dedicated to New Books in Asian American Studies. I would enjoy reading the latest books in this vibrant and diverse and talking to the writers and thinkers of these extraordinary works.NBN Episodes hosted by Julia:
February 25, 2024
Another Appalachia
Neema Avashia is the daughter of Indian immigrants and was born and raised in southern West Virginia. She has been an educator and activist in the Bos…
December 3, 2023
Adoption Fantasies
In Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood (Ohio State UP, 2023), Kimberly D. McKee explores the ways adopt…
November 21, 2023
Kawika Guillermo on "Nimrods" and Y-Dang Troeung's "Landbridge"
Today I talked to Christopher Patterson about two books: the late Y-Dang Troeung's Landbridge [life in fragments] (Knopf Canada, 2023) and Christophe…
September 19, 2023
Model Minority Masochism
There are few grand narratives that loom over Asian Americans more than the “model minority.” While many Asian Americanist scholars and activists aim …