Leslie Bow, Ph.D. , University of California, Santa Cruz 1993
Associate Professor, English and Asian American Studies
7187 Helen C. White lbow@wisc.edu

Leslie Bow is Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies. A third generation Chinese American, Professor Bow grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and received a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984 and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1993. She was the faculties of Brown University and the University of Miami prior to arriving at Madison where she specializes in Asian American literature, ethnic American literature, and literature by women of color. The author of Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion: Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women's Literature (Princeton 2001), she is currently writing a book on the position of Asians in the segregated South and the processes of racial categorization.

Courses: ASIAN AM 101: Introduction to Asian American Studies, ASIAN AM 270: A Survey of Asian American Literature

Selected publications:

"Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion: Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women's Literature, Princeton University Press, 2001.

"Beyond Rangoon: An Interview with Wendy Law-Yone." MELUS: Multi-ethnic Literature of the United States 27: 4 (Winter 2002).

"Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club." In Resource Guide for Asian American Literature, ed. Stephen Sumida and Sau-ling Wong, Modern Language Association Book Publications, 2001. 196-210.

"The Gendered Subject of Human Rights: Asian American Literature as Postcolonial Intervention." Cultural Critique (Winter 1999): 37-78.

"Erasure and Representation: Asian American Women in the Academy." Profession 1997. 215-221.

"'For Every Gesture of Loyalty, There Doesn't Have to Be a Betrayal': Asian American Criticism and the Politics of Locality." In Who Can Speak?: Authority and Critical Identity, ed. Judith Roof and Robyn Wiegman, University of Illinois Press, 1995. 30-49.

"Le Ly Hayslip's Bad (Girl) Karma: Sexuality, National Allegory, and the Politics of Neutrality." Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism 17: 1 (1994):141-160.

[Reprinted as "Third World Testimony in the Era of Globalization: Vietnam, Sexual Trauma, and Le Ly Hayslip's Art of Neutrality." In Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the "Real," ed. Wendy Hesford and Wendy Kozol, University of Illinois Press, 2001. 169-194.]

"Cultural Conflict/Feminist Resolution in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club." In New Visions in Asian American Studies: Diversity, Community, and Power ed. Franklin Eng, Judy Yung, Stephen Fugita, and Elaine Kim, Washington State University Press, 1994. 235-247.

"The Illusion of the Middle Way: Liberal Feminism and Biculturalism in Fifth Chinese Daughter." In Bearing Dreams, Shaping Visions: Asian Pacific American Perspectives ed. Linda A. Revilla, Gail M. Nomura, Shawn Wong, and Shirley Hune, Washington State University Press, 1993. 161-175.

"Hole to Whole: Feminine Subversion and Subversion of the Feminine in Cherrie Moraga's Loving in the War Years." In Dispositio: American Journal of Comparative and Cultural Studies, Toward a Theory of Latino Literature XVI: 41 (1991): 1-12.

"Towards a 'Multi-Cultural' Pedagogy." Co-author. Distributed by The Center for Cultural Studies and Oakes College, University of California at Santa Cruz, Spring, 1990.