Presenters

Ignacio Choi is currently a 5th year PhD student in comparative literature at Stony Brook University and is in the process of writing his dissertation.

Derek Kirk Kim is the award-winning author of the TUNE series, Same Difference, The Eternal Smile (with Gene Luen Yang), and Good As Lily (with Jesse Hamm).

Ricardo Laremont is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Binghamton University.

 http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/experts/list/ricardo-rene-laremont
http://www.binghamton.edu/magazine/index.php/magazine/b-lines/professor-testifies-before-congress

Lisa Lim was born and raised in Queens, New York where she grew up listening to magical storytellers like her Chinese grandmother and her Puerto Rican stepmother. Immersed in many cultures, she’s tried to capture her unique experience through odd and funny pictures and words. Her fiction and art have both appeared in several publications such as Guernica Magazine, The Nashville Review, Pank Magazine, and more. Last year, she illustrated a children’s book called “Soma So Strange”, and most recently her work has been featured at the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery. Check out her storytelling at chineseladybug.carbonmade.com.

Matthew Mosher is a Doctoral Student in the Department of English at Stony Brook University.

Connor Pitetti is a doctoral candidate in the English department at Stony Brook University, where he is writing a dissertation on subjectivity and conceptions of space and time in literary and cinematic postapocalyptic narratives.

Min Hyoung Song is Professor of English at Boston College, where he directs both the Asian American Studies Program and the English MA Program. He is the author of two books, The Children of 1964: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American and Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, as well as several articles in journals and edited volumes. He is also outgoing editor of the Journal of Asian American Studies, co-editor of Asian American Studies: A Reader, and is currently co-editing The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature.

Timothy Wilcox is a PhD student in the English department at Stony Brook University.

Jeff Yang, the curator of Marvels and Monsters, is a veteran communications professional whose career in media and marketing has spanned over a decade and a half. Since 2011, he has written the weekly “Tao Jones” column for the Wall Street Journal Online. Yang has authored and edited a number of bestselling books, including Eastern Standard Time; I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action (the international action hero’s official autobiography); Once Upon a Time in China; and the new graphic novel collection, Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology.

Lisa Yun is Associate Professor of English and Asian and Asian American Studies at Binghamton University.