Biography

Lisa Nakamura is the Director of the Asian American Studies Program, Professor in the Institute of Communication Research and Media and Cinema Studies Department and Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the  Internet (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge, 2002) and a co-editor of Race in Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000) and Race After the Internet (Routledge, forthcoming 2011). She has published articles in Critical Studies in Media Communication,  PMLA, Cinema Journal, The Women’s Review of Books, Camera Obscura, and the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies. She is working on a new monograph tentatively entitled Workers Without Bodies: Towards a Theory of Race and Digital Labor in Virtual Worlds.

Distinctions / Awards

• 2009 Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies for Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (University of Minnesota Press, 2007).

External URLs

• http://sites.google.com/site/theresearchsiteforlisanakamura/

Courses

• MS 391 Digital Media and Virtual Worlds
• AAS 365 Asian American Media and Film