The first History Colloquium of the year saw Professor Esther Kim Lee discuss her book, Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era (University of Michigan Press, 2022). The event occurred in Boyd Seminar Room (Classroom Building 229).
Under discussion were the Introduction and Chapter 3 of Dr. Kim’s book.
Dr. Esther Kim Lee is Frances Hill Fox Professor of Theater Studies and the Director of Asian American & Diaspora Studies Program at Duke University. She teaches and writes about theatre history, Asian American theatre, Korean diaspora theatre, and globalization and theatre. She has authored three monographs: A History of Asian American Theatre (2006), which received the Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education; The Theatre of David Henry Hwang (2015); and Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era (2022), which received the John W. Frick Book Award from the American Theatre and Drama Society. She edited Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas (2012) and the four-volume collection, Modern and Contemporary World Drama: Critical and Primary Sources (2022), which challenges the prevailing Eurocentric reading of modern drama. http://estherkimlee.com/.
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