The UCLA Asian American Studies Department and Center are proud to announce that Dr. Grace Kyungwon Hong will be joining us at UCLA with a joint tenure track faculty position in Women's Studies and Asian American Studies.

The UCLA Asian American Studies Department and Center are proud to announce that Dr. Grace Kyungwon Hong will be joining us at UCLA with a joint tenure track faculty position in Women's Studies and Asian American Studies. Her appointment will begin in July, 2006.

Currently an Assistant Professor in English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Dr. Hong will be returning to her alma mater. She graduated from UCLA with a BA in English and an MA in Asian American Studies. Subsequently, she attended UC San Diego, where she received her PhD in Literature. A recipient of a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, she was an Assistant Professor at Princeton University prior to her appointment at Wisconsin.

Professor Hong teaches courses on women of color feminism; gender, race, and work in the global economy; gender and sexuality in Asian American culture, and feminist approaches to American literature and culture. She has just finished a manuscript called Worlds of Difference: Race, Gender, and  American Modernity, under contract with the University of Minnesota Press, and is at work on an edited collection on feminist and queer approaches to comparative race analyses.

Professor Hong joins Dr. Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns, currently a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Santa Cruz, as a new faculty member in Asian American Studies at UCLA. Dr. Burns, who has special interests in performance studies and Pilipino American Studies, will begin her appointment as an Assistant Professor in both the Departments of Asian American Studies and World Arts and Cultures (of the School of the Arts and Architecture) in July, 2005.