Colleen Lye, Associate Professor

Office: 433 Wheeler

Phone: 510-642-3443

Areas of Interest

20th-Century American Literature. Asian American Literature. Postcolonial & World Literature. Critical Theory. Cultural Studies.

Current Research

Growing out of her first book on the racialization of Asian Americans in the context of U.S. relations with China and Japan, Colleen Lye's newest research interests are in historicizing Asian American literary production and in the postcoloniality of Pacific Rim spaces.

Professional Statement

Colleen Lye received her B.A. from UC Berkeley in 1988, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1990 and 1999.

Selected Publications and Papers Delivered

Forms of Asia. A Special Issue of Representations (vol. 99, Summer 2007). Co-edited with Christopher Bush.

America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005).

"American Naturalism and Asiatic Racial Form: Frank Norris's The Octopus and Moran of the Lady Letty." Representations 84 (2004): 73-99.

"Internationalisms: Anericanism, Globalism, Revolution." Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 2:3 (Winter 2001)

"M.Butterfly and the Rhetoric of Anti-Essentialism: Minority Discourse in an International Frame." David Palumbo-Liu, ed., The Ethnic Canon: Histories, Institutions, Interventions. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995).

"Toward an Asian (American) Cultural Studies: Postmodernism and the 'Peril of Yellow Capital and Labor'." Gary Okihiro, Marilyn Alquizola, Dorothy Rony, and Scott Wong, eds. Privileging Positions: The Sites of Asian America Studies. (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1995).

Office Hours

W 2-4 pm