Victor BascaraVictor Bascara is an associate professor in, and former chair of, the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he specializes in Asian American cultural politics and the critical study of colonia discourse. He is the author of Model-Minority Imperialism (University of Minnesota Press, 2006), and his writings have been published in journals such as American Literary History, American Quarterly, GLQ, American Literature, The Journal of Asian American Studies, Amerasia Journal, and the Asian American Law Journal, and in collections such as Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization (Duke University Press, 2011), Imagining Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame (Duke University Press, 2007), Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction (Rutgers University Press, 2015), The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent (University of Minnesota Press, 2014), Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora (New York University Press, 2016), and East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture (New York University Press, 2005). One of his current projects is an examination of isolationism and imperialism in US culture during the interwar period (c. 1919–1941). He coedited (with Lisa Nakamura) a special issue of Amerasia Journal on “Adaption and Its Discontents: Asian American Cultural Politics across Platforms” and (with Keith Camacho and Elizabeth DeLoughrey) a special issue of Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific on “Gender and Sexual Politics of Pacific Island Militarisation.” And he coedited (with Josephine Park) Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930–1965 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Read More Read Less