Thursday, November 4th, 2010 Reloaded: Asian Women in Hollywood and Beyond, 1986 - 2010

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Elaine H. Kim is Professor and head of Asian American Studies and former Chair of the Comparative Ethnic Studies Department at UC Berkeley, where she also served as Associate Dean of the Graduate Division, Faculty Assistant for the Status of Women, and Assistant Dean in the College of Letters and Science. She wrote Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context (1982) and is co-author of Writing Self, Writing Nation: A Collection of Essays on DICTEE by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1994) and Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art (2003). She co-edited East To America: Korean American Life Stories (1996), Making More Waves: New Writing By Asian American Women (1997), Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism, (1998), and Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writing (2003). She is associate producer of Slaying the Dragon: Asian Women in U.S. Television and Film (1988), co-producer of Sa-i-gu: From Korean Women’s Perspectives (1993), and executive producer of Labor Women: Asian American Women Labor Organizers (2003). She served as President of the Association and is co-founder of Asian Women United of California, the Korean Community Center of the East Bay, and Asian Immigrant Women Advocates in Oakland, California. She has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship, an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and an Honorary Doctorate of Laws at the University of Notre Dame.