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HUMANITIES SOCSCI
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Yamamoto, Traise

Associate Professor of English

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

English


Biography

Traise Yamamoto (B.A. San Jose State University; M.F.A., M.A., Ph.D. University of Washington) joined the faculty in 1994. She specializes in Asian American literary and cultural studies, poetry, race and gender theory, autobiography studies, and British and American Modernism. She is the author of Masking Selves, Making Subjects: Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body (University of California Press, 1999), and her scholarly work has appeared in Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society; positions: east asia cultures critique; The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism; Race, Gender and Class; and Asian American Literature: A Brief Introduction. Most recently, “An Apology to Althea Connor: Private Memory and the Ethics of Public Memoir” appeared in Under Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America, edited by Pooja Makhijani. She has written on visual artists Kim Yasuda and Eddy Kurushima for the Japanese American National Museum series "Finding Family Stories" and is one of the contributors to The MLA Resource Guide to Asian American Literature. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in several journals and anthologies, including The New Republic, Poetry Northwest, The Asian Pacific American Journal, Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Poets, Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, and Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry. She is on the Editorial Board of American Literary History, the Review Board of Cultural Critique, and is a Contibuting Editor to Frontiers: A Women’s Studies Journal. Current projects include a collection of mixed-genre essays on Asian American feminism and a scholarly study, tentatively titled, “Bad Subjects: Asian American Artists, Anhedonics and Madwomen.”

Degrees

Ph.D. English 1994

University of Washington

M.F.A. Poetry 1989

University of Washington

M.A. English 1990

University of Washington

B.A. English 1984

San Jose State University

Awards

Resident Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, UC Riverside, Spring 1999; Fall 1995
Elected, Executive Board Member, Association for American Studies: Southern California Regional Representative, 1997-1999


Research Area

Twentieth Century American Literature, British and American Modernism, Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies, American Studies, Critical Race Theory, Queer Asian American Writing, Feminist Theory, Race and Masculinity Studies, Autobiography and Autobiography Theory, Mixed-race/Hapa Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Trauma Theory, 1920s Paris, 1950s United States, Japanese American Internment, American Women Poets, Virginia Woolf, Creative Writing, Young Adult Fiction