LISA NAKAMURA
Interim Director, Professor, Asian American Studies & Institute of Communications Research

228 Gregory Hall,
810 South Wright Street, MC-463
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 244-3768
lnakamur@uiuc.edu

Lisa Nakamura is the Director of the Asian American Studies Program, Professor in the Institute of Communication Research and Media Studies Program and Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. She is the author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge, 2002) and a co-editor of Race in Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000). She has published articles in Critical Studies in Media Communication, PMLA, Cinema Journal, The Women’s Review of Books, Camera Obscura, and the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies.   She is editing a collection with Peter Chow-White entitled Digital Race: An Anthology (Routledge, forthcoming) and is working on a new monograph on Massively Multiplayer Online Role playing games, the transnational racialised labor, and avatarial capital in a “postracial” world. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Asian American Studies,Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Games and Culture, and New Media and Society.

She teaches courses on Asian Americans and media as well as introductory and advanced courses on new media criticism, history, and theory.

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Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (2007)
Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet (2002)
Race in Cyberspace (2000)