LISA NAKAMURA
Associate 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 Associate Professor at the Institute of Communications Research and 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 on cross-racial discourse in Internet chatspaces, race, embodiment, and virtuality in the film and television, and political economies of race and cyberspace in publications such as Reading Digital Culture, Popular Culture: a Reader, The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, Women's Review of Books, Unspun: Key Terms for the World Wide Web, The Cybercultures Reader, Reload: Rethinking Women and Cyberculture, Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices, and the Visual Culture Reader 2.0. She teaches courses on Asian Americans and media as well as introductory and advanced courses on new media criticism, history, and theory.

Professor Nakamura is an Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) Fellow for the 2007-2008 academic year.

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