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SHANNON STEEN, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Stanford University. Professor Steen writes and teaches about the intersection of race and performance, primarily in the United States and the world of the Pacific Basin. Her research areas include critical race theory, particularly in the intersection of African and Asian American histories, American Studies, globalization and American urban development, and post/modernisms. In fall 2006, her anthology AfroAsian Encounters: History, Culture, Politics (co-edited with Heike Raphael-Hernandez) was published by New York University Press. This anthology marks the first interdisciplinary anthology to examine the mutual influence of and relationships between members of the African and Asian diasporas. She is also at work finishing her first full-length book, Racial Geometries: The Black Atlantic, the Asian/Pacific, and American Performance, on how performance forms between the two world wars, from musical theater to Chinatown tourism, constitute one of the most revealing archives of AfroAsian encounters in the United States. Professor Steen has also taught for the M.F.A. acting program at the American Conservatory Theatre (A.C.T.) in San Francisco, for the English Department at Northwestern University, and is associated faculty for the Program in American Studies at UC Berkeley.

Email: steen21@berkeley.edu

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