Cheryl Naruse
Election
Position
Name
Cheryl Naruse
Candidate statement
My name is Cheryl Naruse and I am running for the Interior West/South Representative at AAAS. I am Associate Professor of English at Tulane University. My career began as a scholar of postcolonial literature in Asia and the Pacific and a lurker in Asian American and critical ethnic studies. But over the years, I have moved into Asian American studies through my research and teaching, thanks to critical points of entry offered by concepts such as “global Asias” and the “transpacific.” I bring these “outside in” research and teaching experiences, as well as experience working at a broad range of institutions both in the United States and abroad, to destabilize US-centric approaches to an increasingly globalized Asian American studies. Building on my experiences with editorial work, public humanities, and undergraduate/professional mentorship, I also hope to get involved with initiatives that promote interdisciplinary collaboration, strong mentorship for graduate students and early career scholars, and advocacy for our colleagues working in non-tenure track positions.
Candidate Biography:
Cheryl Narumi Naruse (Ph.D. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University and the 2024-25 Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar in History at Simon Fraser University. She was previously the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor in the Humanities at Tulane. She is author of Becoming Global Asia: Contemporary Genres of Postcolonial Capitalism in Singapore (Transpacific Studies series, UC Press, 2023) and co-editor of Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Singapore (Duke UP, under contract). Her articles and essays appear in biography, Genre, Interventions, Periscope: Social Text Online, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, and the Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics. She has co-edited a number of special issues, including ones on Singapore literature and culture, literature and postcolonial capitalism, and Global Asia studies. Recent courses she has taught include “Literatures of Tourism,” “Race, Empires, and Asian America,” "Global Theories of Asian Racialization," “Asian Diasporic Literature,” “Postcolonial and Diasporic Southeast Asian Literature,” and “Postcolonial Theory.” She has won both undergraduate and graduate teaching awards.
Candidate Biography:
Cheryl Narumi Naruse (Ph.D. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University and the 2024-25 Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar in History at Simon Fraser University. She was previously the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor in the Humanities at Tulane. She is author of Becoming Global Asia: Contemporary Genres of Postcolonial Capitalism in Singapore (Transpacific Studies series, UC Press, 2023) and co-editor of Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Singapore (Duke UP, under contract). Her articles and essays appear in biography, Genre, Interventions, Periscope: Social Text Online, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, and the Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics. She has co-edited a number of special issues, including ones on Singapore literature and culture, literature and postcolonial capitalism, and Global Asia studies. Recent courses she has taught include “Literatures of Tourism,” “Race, Empires, and Asian America,” "Global Theories of Asian Racialization," “Asian Diasporic Literature,” “Postcolonial and Diasporic Southeast Asian Literature,” and “Postcolonial Theory.” She has won both undergraduate and graduate teaching awards.