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Cathy J. Schlund-Vials

CATHY J. SCHLUND-VIALS is a mixed-race Cambodian and white American born in Thailand and adopted by an American Air Force father and a Japanese mother. She received her MA and PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and her BA in English from University of Texas, Austin. She held a Joint Appointment as professor in the Department of English and the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Connecticut, and served as director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute. She is currently a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Schlund-Vials’ work has appeared in a number of collections and journals. She is the author of Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing (2011), and War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work (2012). She has also co-edited and edited a number of collections, including Disability, Human Rights, and the Limits of Humanitarianism (2014), Keywords for Asian American Studies (2015), Interrogating the Perpetrator: Violation, Culpability, and Human Rights (2016), and Asian America: A Primary Source Reader (2017), co-edited with K. Scott Wong and Jason O. Chang.

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