Josie Bruin is Professor of English and Asian American Studies at UCLA. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests are Asian American Literature, Renaissance British Literature, and American Ethnic Literatures. She is author of Articulate Silences (Cornell,1993); editor of Words Matter (U of Hawaii Press, 2000), An Interethnic Companion to Asian American literature (Cambridge, 1996), "Seventeen Syllables" (Rutgers, 1994), Asian American literature: An Annotated Bibliography (MLA, 1988); co-editor of The Heath Anthology of American Lit.