Victor Bascara Editor & Author

Victor Bascara is an associate professor of Asian American Studies at UCLA, where he has served as Chair of the Asian American Studies Department. He is a scholar and teacher of US ethnic and postcolonial studies, focusing on the critical study of US Empire. He is the author of Model Minority Imperialism (2006), on the editorial board of Amerasia Journal, and a co-editor of the Critical Refugee Studies book series at the University of California Press. Josephine Nock-Hee Park is Professor of English and Director of the Asian American Studies Program at The University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Apparitions of Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics (2008), which garnered the Literary Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies, and Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian America (2016). She presently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Asian American Studies and Verge: Studies in Global Asias.