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  Sarita See
Associate Professor

U of M Affiliation(s)
Program in American Culture
Asian/Pacific Islander American (A/PIA) Studies
Department of English Language & Literature


Ph.D., Columbia University 2001


Contact Information:
505 S. State Street, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045
3527C Haven Hall
Phone: 734.647.6754
Fax: 734.936.1967
Email: ssee@umich.edu

Fields of Study: Asian-American literature, Filipino/a American cultural critique, postcolonial and empire studies, narrative, visual culture.
Secondary Fields of Study: U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, critical race theory, performance studies.

Department of English Website
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/faculty/fibDetail.asp?ID=285

Publications:

Book:
The Decolonized Eye: Filipino American Art and Performance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Forthcoming November 2009.

Book Chapters and Articles:
“Filipinos Are Punny.” Philippine Studies: Have We Gone Beyond St. Louis? Ed. Priscelino Patajo-Legasto. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press. Forthcoming 2009.

“Social Support as a Buffer for Perceived Unfair Treatment among Filipino Americans: Differences between Those Living in Honolulu and San Francisco.” Gilbert C. Gee, PhD, Juan Chen, MSW, Michael Spencer, PhD, Sarita See, PhD, Oliva A. Kuester, MSW, Diem Tran, MPH, and David Takeuchi, PhD. American Journal of Public Health 96:4 (2006): 677-684.

“Southern Postcoloniality and the Improbability of Filipino American Postcoloniality: Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Hagedorn’s Dogeaters” Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures 57.1 (2003-2004): 41-54. Special issue “The U.S. South, Postcolonial Theory, and New World Studies.”

“‘An Open Wound’: Colonial Melancholia and Contemporary Filipino/American Texts.” Vestiges of War 1899-1999: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream. Eds. Angel Shaw and Luis Francia. New York: New York University Press, 2002. 376-400.

“Trying Whiteness: Media Representations of the 1996 Okinawa Rape Trial.” Hitting Critical Mass: A Journal of Asian American Cultural Criticism 5:2 (1998): 57-78.

Book review:
Rev. of Traise Yamamoto, Masking Selves, Making Subjects: Japanese American Women, Identity and the Body. Gender Forum (online gender and women’s studies journal). Eds. Astrid Recker and Dirk Schulz. 2002.

Art Installation:
Faith for Miracles.” Sarita See, Other: Arab Artists Collective, and Bill St. Amant. Multi-media installation. Exquisite Crisis and Encounters. Curator: Yong Soon Min. Asian/Pacific/American Studies Institute, New York University. 2007.

Fiction:
“Why I Hate My Cousin Pucha.” Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women. Eds. Elaine Kim et al. Boston: Beacon, 1997. 6-11.





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