Ph.D., English Language and Literature, University of Michigan
B.A., English, UC Berkeley
Office: CMU 235
E-Mail: nishime@uw.edu
LeiLani Nishime is an Assistant Professor who joined the Department of Communication in 2008. Her research areas are multiracial and interracial studies, Asian American media representations, and Asian American subcultural production. Her most recent publications look at the visual and narrative representation of multiracial people in science fiction film and television. She is finishing work on a book about representations of multiracial Asian Americans in popular culture and is currently writing on Asian American alternative cultural productions including independent film, blogs and zines, and graphic novels.
Dr. Nishime received her Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan and her B.A. in English from UC Berkeley. She comes to UW from Sonoma State University where she was a professor in American Multicultural Studies.
Selected Publications
“The Case for Cablinasian: Multiracial Naming from Plessy to Tiger Woods,” Communication Theory, 22:1, (February 2012), pp 92-111.
“Aliens: Narrating U.S. Global Identity Through Transnational Adoption and Interracial Marriage in Battlestar Galactica,” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 28:5 (December 2011), pp 450-465.
“The Matrix Trilogy, Keanu Reeves, and Multiraciality at the End of Time” in Mixed Race in Hollywood, Eds. Camilla Fojas and Mary Beltrán, New York University Press, 2008.
East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture, Co-editor with Shilpa Davé and Tasha Oren, New York University Press, 2005.
“White Skin, White Masks: Vietnam War Films and the Racialized Gaze” in American Visual Cultures, Ed. David Holloway, Continuum Press, 2005, pp 257-264.
“The Mulatto Cyborg,” Cinema Journal, 44:2 (Winter 2005), pp 34-49.
“Communities on Display: Museums and the Creation of the (Asian) American Citizen,” Amerasia, 30:3 (Winter 2004), pp 40-60.
“’I’m Blackanese’: Pushing the Limits of Cross-Racial Identification in Rush Hour,” in Asian North American Subjectivities, Ed. Eleanor Ty and Donald Goellnicht, University of Indiana Press, 2004, 43-60.
