NEW YORK: Anti-Asian Violence, Exclusion, and Yellowface - Dr. Esther Kim Lee

Esther Kim Lee is Professor of Theater Studies and Director of the Asian American and Diaspora Studies at Duke University. She edited Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas (Duke University Press, 2012) and authored The Theatre of David Henry Hwang (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015) and A History of Asian American Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2006), which received the 2007 Award for Outstanding Book given by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Her latest book is Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era (University of Michigan Press, 2022). She has also published with Bloomsbury a four-volume collection, Modern and Contemporary World Drama: Critical and Primary Sources, which challenges the prevailing Eurocentric reading of modern drama. http://estherkimlee.com/