Julia H. Lee

Julia H. Lee is professor and chair of Asian American Studies at the University of California at Irvine. She is the author of The Racial Railroad (New York University Press, 2022), Understanding Maxine Hong Kingston (University of South Carolina Press, 2018), and Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896–1937 (New York University Press, 2011). She is a co-editor of Asian American Literature in Transition, Vol. 1 (1850–1930) (Cambridge University Press, 2021). She teaches courses on Asian American literature, race and urban space, Asian American popular culture, and Asian American communities.