Asian American Studies, University of Illinois

LISA NAKAMURA
Associate Professor in the Department of Speech Communication and Asian American Studies
244 Lincoln Hall, 702 South Wright Street
Urbana , IL 61801
217-244-7733
lnakamur@uiuc.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. English, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York City, New York, 1996.
Dissertation: "Theatrical Subjects: Passing, Masquerade and Identity in the Fiction of Hardy, James, Wharton, and Kipling." Supervisor: Professor Mary Ann Caws

M.Phil. English, City University of New Y ork Graduate Center, New York City, New York, 1993.

2006-current. Associate Professor, Department of Speech Communication and Asian American Studies. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

2002-2006. Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Arts. University of Wisconsin-Madison.

2003-2004, 2004-2005. Summer Research Grant, awarded by the Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

2004-2005. Research Grant Category A of $5,000, awarded by the U.W. System Institute on Race and Ethnicity .

2004. Summer Teaching Academy Research Grant of $800 awarded by the U.W. Teaching Academy to develop online course materials and purchase pedagogical software for new media instruction.

1999. Award for Teaching Excellence, Psi Epsilon Chapter of Order of Omega, Sonoma State University.

1998. University Web Assistant Grant awarded by the Sonoma State Teaching Development Fund.

1998. University Faculty Diversity Development Fellowship awarded by Sonoma State.

1998. University Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Program Summer Stipend awarded by Sonoma State equivalent to 1/9 summer salary.

Visual Cultures of the Internet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. (forthcoming)

Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet. New York and London: Routledge, 2002.

Race In Cyberspace. [co-edited with Beth Kolko and Gilbert Rodman]. New York and London: Routledge, 2000.

“Alllooksame? Mediating Visual Cultures of Race on the Web,” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, 2002, pp. 73-84.

"Head Hunting in Cyberspace: Identity Tourism, Asian (?) Avatars, and Racial Passing in Web-Based Chatspaces,” Women’s Review of Books, February 2001.

"Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet," Works and Days: Essays in the Socio-Historical Dimensions of Literature & the Arts, 25/26 (Fall 1995, Winter 1996), pp. 181-193.

“Pregnant Sims: Avatars and the Visual Culture of Motherhood on the Web” for inclusion in Electronic Elsewheres: Media, Technology, and Social Space, edited by Lynn Spigel, Kim Soyoung, and Chris Berry, 20 typed manuscript pages (anthology under review at University of Minnesota Press)

“Cultural Difference, Theory, and Cyberculture Studies: A Case of Mutual Repulsion.” In Critical Cyberculture Studies: Current Terrains, Future Directions. Ed. David Silver, New York: NYU Press, 10 typed manuscript pages (forthcoming, 2006).

“The Multiplication of Difference in Post-Millennial Cyberpunk Film: The Visual Culture of Race in the Matrix Trilogy.” In The Matrix Trilogy: Cyberpunk Reloaded, edited by Stacy Gillis, 126-137. London: Wallflower Press, 2006.

"Cybertyping and the Work of Race in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” in New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader, edited by Wendy Chun and Thomas Keenan, 317-333. New York: Routledge, 2006.

“Alllooksame? Mediating Asian American Visual Cultures of Race on the Web” in East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture, edited by Shilpa Dave, LeiLani Nishime, and Tasha G. Oren, 262-272. New York: NYU Press, 2005.

" Interrogating the Digital Divide: the Political Economy of Race and Commerce in New Media” in Society Online: the Internet in Context, edited by Phil Howard and Steve Jones, 71-83. Thousand Oaks and London: Sage Press, 2003.

“Race in the Construct, or the Construction of Race: New Media and Old Identities in The Matrix” in Domain Errors! A Cyberfeminist Handbook of Tactics, edited by Michelle Wright, Maria Fernandez, and Faith Wilding, 63-78. New York: Autonomedia Press, 2003.

“After/Images of Identity: Gender, Technology, and Identity Politics” in Reload: Rethinking Woman + Culture, edited by Austin Booth and Mary Flanagan, 321-331. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.

“Race” in Unspun: Key Terms for the World Wide Web and Culture, ed. Thomas Swiss, 39-50. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

“Introduction” (co-written with Beth Kolko and Gil Rodman) to Race In Cyberspace, [edited with Beth Kolko and Gilbert Rodman] 1-13. New York and London: Routledge, 2000.

"This Strange Way of Meeting': Theatricality and the New Woman in Hardy's Return of the Native" in Gender Blending, edited by Bonnie Bullough, Vern Bullough, and James Elias, 285-294. New York: Prometheus Books, 1997.

"Images of Women" and "Veils" in Encylopedia of Feminist Literary Theory, ed. Beth Kowaleski-Wallace, Garland Press, 1996.

Review essay on Geert Lovink’s Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture (2002). Mute Issue 24, 2002.

“Head Hunting on the Internet: Identity Tourism, Avatars, and Racial Passing in Textual and Graphic Chatspaces” (Chapter 2 of Cybertypes) reprinted in Popular Culture: A Reader, ed. Raiford Guins and Omayra Zaragoza Cruz, London and Thousand Oaks, Sage, 2005, pp. 520-553

reprinted in Cybercultures: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, ed. David Bell, London, Routledge , forthcoming 2006.

"Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet,” Works and Days: Essays in the Socio-Historical Dimensions of Literature & the Arts, 25/26 (Fall 1995, Winter 1996) reprinted in Reading Digital Culture, ed. David Trend, London: Blackwell, 2002, pp. 226-235.

reprinted in The Cybercultures Reader, ed. David Bell, New York and London: Routledge, 2000, pp. 712-720.

reprinted in CyberReader, 2nd edition, ed. Victor Vitanza, New York: Allyn and Bacon,1999, pp. 442-453.

"'Where Do You Want to Go Today?'" Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet, and Transnationality" in Race In Cyberspace. [edited, with Beth Kolko and Gilbert Rodman] New York and London: Routledge, 1999, pp. 15-26
reprinted in The Visual Culture Reader 2.0, ed. Nick Mirzoeff, Routledge, 2002, pp. 255-263.

edited version reprinted in Gender, Race and Class in Media, ed. Jean Humez and Gail Dines, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2002, pp. 684-687.

Utrka u/za kiberprostor (translation of “Race In/For Cyberspace” into Croatian), ed. Reana Senjkovic, Iva Plese, 2004.

“Interview with Lisa Nakamura,” ViralNet, a publication of the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, 2004. http://viralnet.net/home/1_interviews/lisanaka.html

“Talking Race and Cyberspace: Interview with Lisa Nakamura,” Frontiers: a Journal of Women Studies, published by the University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

Interview with Donna Haraway for The Politics of Information, ed. C. Marc Bousquet and Katherine Wills, Alt-X ebooks, 2003.

“Introduction.” On the Market: Surviving the Academic Job Search, edited by Christina Boufis and Victoria C. Olsen, 17-21. New York: Riverhead Books, 1997.

"Expert Witness: In Defense of Choice," in A: The Asian American Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 4, 1992.

“Race, Gender, and the Internet: A Critical Theory of New Media Audiences.” Solicited book chapter for an anthology to be published jointly by the Annenberg School of Communication-West (University of Southern California) and the Annenberg School of Communication-East (University of Pennsylvania) entitled Communication Technology and Social Policy in the Digital Age

“Mixedfolks.com: Hybrid Identity, Racial Passing, and the Internet.” Solicited book chapter for a proposed anthology entitled Mixed Race in Hollywood Film and Television, edited by Mary Beltran and Camille Fojas.

“What Does It Mean to Come Late to the Party?: Race, Gender, and New Media Audiences” A Symposium on “Communication Technology and Social Policy in the Digital Age.” Sponsored by the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, Annenberg School for Communication, April 2006.

“Intersectionality, New Media, and Identity: Internet Popular Culture and Computer Mediated Communication.” A Speaker’s series entitled “The Provost’s Conversations on Diversity, Democracy, and Higher Education,” University of Maryland, College Park, November 2005.

“Care Bears, Purple, and Sparkles: Audiences, Taste, Gender, and Avatars in Parenting Bulletin Boards,” Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison, February 2005.

“Subjects and Objects of Interactivity: Digital Racial Formation and Media Convergence.” A Symposium on “CyberDisciplinarity.” Institute for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, May 2005.

“Subjects and Objects of Interactivity: Digital Racial Formation and Media Convergence.” A Speaker’s Series entitled “global_interface: a Conference on New Media.” Sponsored by the Department of Film, Mellon Workshop, University of California, Riverside, May 2005.

“Visual Cultures of the Internet.” “Internet Class 04: A Masterclass on Contemporary Research in Critical Internet Studies.” Sponsored by the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, December, 2004.

“Parsing the Digital Signature: Mass Audience, Taste, Avatars, and Gender in Internet Parenting Bulletin Boards.” Sponsored by the Department of Integrated Studies, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, October, 2004.

“Parsing the Digital Signature: Mass Audience, Taste, Avatars, and Gender in Internet Parenting Bulletin Boards.” Library and Information Science Research Colloquium, UW Madison, October , 2004.

"’Asian or Gay?’: Online Activism in Raced and Queer Media Spaces.” Sponsored by the Stanhope Center for Public Policy, London, England, June, 2004.

“The Visual Culture of Race and AIM Buddies,” Sponsored by the Department of Communication, University of Illinois, Chicago, April, 2004.

“Queer Sexualities,” Sponsored by the Pan-Asian Students Association, University of Chicago, Chicago, April 2004.

“Only Skin Deep.” A Symposium cosponsored by The International Center for Photography in conjunction with the School of the Arts, the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, and the Center for Law and Society, Columbia University, February 2004.

“Race in Cyberpunk Film.” A symposium on “Powering Up/Powering Down.” Teknika Radica: Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, University of California, San Diego, February 2004.

“Poweruser or Powerused? The Asian American Discursive Presence in Cyberspace.” Sponsored by the Center for Asian and Asian American Studies, Duke University, October 2003.

Respondent, “The Color Lines Conference: Segregation and Integration in America's Present and Future,” Sponsored by the Harvard School of Law, Harvard University, August 2003.

“Visual Cultures of Race in the Shared Spaces of Gaming and Film: Remediating the Hybrid Avastar.” A Symposium on "Electronic Elsewheres." School of Communication and the Center for Globalization, Northwestern University, May 2003.

“Cyberculture and Theories of Difference: A Case of Mutual Repulsion.” A Symposium on "Critical Cyberculture Studies: Current Terrains, Future Directions." Sponsored by the Ford Foundation, University of Washington, Seattle, May 2003.

"New Media and Global Visual Culture: Interventions and Interpretations" Keynote Address Graduate Symposium, Department of Art and Archaeology, Cornell University, March 2003.

“Spaces of Identity,” Sponsored by the Cultural Studies Program, Indiana University, Feb 2003 (could not attend)

“Alllooksame.com?” Colloquium presentation for Visual Culture Cluster Group Faculty Forum, UW Madison, October, 2002.

“Can Equal TV Representation Be Demanded As A Next Civil Right?” A Symposium sponsored by Freewaves, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Central Library, October 2002.

Keynote Address, A Symposium on “ICTs (Information, Communication, and Technology), Power and Democracy” Sponsored by the University of Oslo, Norway, October 2001.

A Symposium Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Digital Media Arts at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (could not attend).

“Race in Cyberspace,” Culbertson Lecture Series, Sponsored by the English Department, Indiana University, September 2001.

Keynote Address, 2nd Annual Association of Internet Researchers conference, U. of Minnesota, October 2001.

“’Where Do You Want to Go Today?’: Race, Identity, and Virtual Tourism on the Internet.” Symposium on “Race and Digital Space”, Sponsored by the Department of Media, M.I.T., April 2001.

“Constructing Cybercultures: Performance, Pedagogy, and Politics in Online Spaces” Keynote Address, Sponsored by the Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, April 2001.

"Remastering the Internet: the Work of Race in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” A symposium on “Archaeologies of Multimedia.” Sponsored by the Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, 2000.

“After/Images of Identity: Gender, Technology, and Identity Politics.” Plenary Address for “Discipline and Deviance: Genders, Technologies, and Machines,” Sponsored by the Literature Department Graduate Student Association, Duke University, 1998.

Respondent: “Mediating Space/New Media Architecture,” Merging Methodologies 3: Of Global Concern: Communication and Media Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin, Madison, February 2006

Respondent: “Spaces of Memory,” Visual Culture Research Colloquium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, February 2005.

"Ways of Clicking: Teaching the Concept of Digital Racial Formation and Methods for Reading Networked Images of the Body,” Association of Internet Researchers, Chicago, October 2005.

“Facial Recognition: Surveillance Society, Racialization, and the Biotechnological Turn,” Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., December 2005

“The Visual Culture of AIM Buddies and Race on the Internet,” International Communication Association, Communication Technology Division, New Orleans, May 2004.

“Whose Mobility? The Visual Culture of Gaming and Racial Difference.” Theory Division, International Communication Association, New Orleans, May 2004.

Panel Chair, “The Internet and the Senses,” Association of Internet Researchers, Toronto, October 2003.

Roundtable Participant, "Issues of Identity, Difference, and Power in CMC Research: Issues of Gender, Race and Class." National Communication Association Conference, Miami, November 2003.

Panel Chair, “Racial Identifications, Cyborgs, and the Discourse of Liberation in Post 80’s Science Fiction Film,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2003.

“Visual Culture of Race and the Internet,” Association of Internet Researchers, Toronto, October 2003.

“If You Could See What I’ve Seen with Your Eyes”: Techno-Orientalism in Minority Report”, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2003.

“Poweruser or Powerused? The Asian American Discursive Presence in Cyberspace,” American Studies Association, Houston, TX 2002.

“Keeping it (Virtually) Real: The Discourse of Cyberspace as an Object of Knowledge,” American Studies Association, Detroit, MI, 2000.

“Race in the Construct, or the Re-Construction of Race: New Media and Old Identities in The Matrix, " Society for Literature and Science Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2000.

“Head Hunting in Cyberspace: Identity Tourism, Asian (?) Avatars, and Racial Passing in Web-Based Chatspaces,” Asian American Studies Association, Scottsdale, AZ, 2000.

Panel Discussant, “(Re)thinking Community,” Asian American Studies Association, Scottsdale, AZ, 2000.

Panel Discussant, “The Modest Minority: Exploring Asian American Sexualities,” Asian American Studies Association Conference, 1999, Philadelphia, PA.

“Techno-Orientalism and Cyberpunk: The ‘Consensual Hallucination’ of Multiculturalism in the Fiction of Cyberspace,” Asian American Studies Association, Philadelphia, PA, 1999.

"Decentering the Margins: What Happens to Race in Hypertext?” American Studies Association, 1998.

“Beneath the Skin: Theatricality and Border Crossings in Kipling’s Kim,” 8th Annual Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature Conference, Georgia Southern University, 1998.

"'Where Do You Want to Go Today?'" Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet, and Transnationality," American Studies Association, 1997.

"Passing Fancies: Performative Iterations of the Subject on the Internet," PAMLA, U.C. Irvine, 1996.

"Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet," Society for the Study of Narrative Literature Conference, U. of Utah, 1995.

"'This Strange Way of Meeting': Theatricality and the New Woman in Hardy's The Return of the Native," International Congress on Gender, Cross Dressing, and Sex Issues, California State U. at Northridge, 1995.

"Madonnas, Models and Mistresses in Two Tales by Henry James," Dickens World Conference, U.C. Riverside, 1992.

"The Acoustic Experience in Three Texts: A Challenge to the Custom of Close Reading," CUNY Graduate Center, 1991.

On-Line Respondent, “Global English Colloquium,” Univerzita Palackeho, Czech Republic, 1998.

Spring 2005. CA 346: Critical Internet Studies p> Spring 2005. CA 420: Asian Americans and Media

Manuscript Reviewer for: University of Minnesota Press, Routledge, MIT Press, Alta Mira Press, Palgrave Macmillan.

Ad hoc reviewer for: Television and New Media, Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society, Body and Society, Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs, Cultural Anthropology, Communication Review, Postmodern Culture.

Member, UW-Madison Mellon Study Group on Electronic Music: The Subject of Electronica, 2002-2004.

Editorial Board Member, Ethnic Studies: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Culture, Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates, 2005-present

Editorial Board Member, Journal of E-Media Studies, Dartmouth University, 2004-present

Departmental Advisor, Communication Arts, Letters and Sciences Advising Service, 2004-2005

Member, UW-Madison Asian American Studies Program Faculty Advisory Committee, Affiliated Faculty Member, 2002-present

Steering Committee Member, Mellon Subject of Electronica Group, Center for the Humanities, 2002-2004

Review Coordinator and SubChair for Association of Internet Researchers Conference, 2003.

Reviewer of Conference Proposals for Association of Internet Researchers Conference, 2002-present.

Reviewer of Conference Proposals for “(In)formation, Identity, Community, Performance and Visual Cultures,” Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Conference, UW Madison, 2002.

Opponent and Evaluator for Susanna Paasonen’s Ph.D. dissertation defense: “Figures of Fantasy,” University of Turku, Finland, October 2002.

Reviewer of Conference Proposals for “Across the Generations: 12th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf” Sonoma State University, 2002.