KENT A. ONO
Professor, Asian American Studies, Media and Cinema Studies

Department of Media and Cinema Studies
228 Gregory Hall MC-463
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 333-1549
kaono@illinois.edu

Kent A. Ono (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1992) conducts research on rhetoric and discourse, media and film, and race, ethnic, and cultural studies. He has published several books (see below) and has contributed essays to numerous journals, including Communication Monographs, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Western Journal of Communication, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Amerasia Journal, Journal of Asian American Studies, and Cultural Studies. Ono directed the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2002-2007. He also directed the Cultural Studies Program at the University of California at Davis from 1999-2002. He founded the Asian American Cultural Politics Research Cluster at UC Davis in 1997. He wrote the proposal to create the journal, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. He helped propose, organize and chair the Critical and Cultural Studies Division of NCA from 2000-2001; chaired the Asian Pacific American Caucus of NCA in 1996-1997; co-chaired the Asian Pacific American Caucus of the Society for Cinema Studies (1999-2001); and has planned several conferences. He co-edits the book series "Critical Cultural Communication" with Sarah Banet-Weiser at New York University Press. He is also co-editor-elect of the journal "Critical Studies in Media Communication" with Ronald Jackson.

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Asian American Studies After Critical Mass
Companion to Asian American Studies
Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek
Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration, and California's Proposition 187
Asian Americans and the Media
Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past