Elaine Kim
Professor of the Graduate School
Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies
Asian American literary and cultural studies, Asian and Asian American Feminist Studies, Korean American Studies
Ph.D., UC Berkeley M.A., Columbia University
B.A., University of Pennsylvania
Select publications
Writer and director, Slaying the Dragon Reloaded: Asian Women in Hollywood and Beyond, 2011
Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations On Asian American Art (with Margo Machida and Sharon Mizota), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003 (Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Cultural Studies, 2004)
InvASIAN: Asian Sisters Represent, A Collection of Writings for Asian and Pacific American Teenaged Girls, San Francisco Study Center/Asian Women United of California, 2003
Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writing, with Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Philadelphia: Temple University Press 2003
Executive Producer, Labor Women, 2002
Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism (co-edited with Chungmoo Choi), New York: Routledge, 1998
Making More Waves: New Writing By Asian American Women (co-edited with Lilia V. Villanueva), Boston: Beacon Press, 1997: 184-194
“new formations, new questions: asian american studies” (special issue co-edited with Lisa M. Lowe), positions: east asia cultures critique 5, no. 2 (fall 1997)
East to America: Korean American Life Stories (co-edited with Eui-Young Yu), New York: The New Press, 1996
Writing Self, Writing Nation: A Collection of Essays on DICTEE by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (co-author with Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Lisa M. Lowe, and Shelley Sunn Wong), Berkeley: Third Woman Press, 1994
Making Waves: Writings By and About Asian American Women (co-edited with Asian Women United of California), Boston: Beacon Press, 1989
Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, l982; translated into Japanese 2002
Co-Producer, Sa-i-gu: From Korean Women’s Perspectives, 1992
Associate Producer, Slaying the Dragon: Asian Women in U.S. Television and Film, 1988
Awards & Honors
San Francisco Asian Pacific American Heritage Lifetime Achievement Award, 2012
Association for Asian American Studies Lifetime Achievement Award, 2011
Organization of American Historians -Japan Association of American Studies Short Term Residency, Waseda University, June 2008
Featured Writer, Berkeley Writers at Work, UC Berkeley, 18 October 2006
Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Award for Excellence in Education, California State Assembly, May 2006
Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Cultural Studies, 2004
Honorary Doctorate of Laws, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, May 2004
“A.100: the 100 most influential Asian Americans of the past decade,” A. Magazine, 1999
Global Korea Award, 1998
Hall of Outstanding Women at Cal, 1995
Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters, University of Massachusetts, Boston, 1995
“Profiles in Excellence,” KGO-TV, June 27, 1993 and December 26, 1993
Jessie Bernard Wise Woman Award, Center for Women Policy Studies, 1991
Woman Warrior Award, Pacific Asian Women’s Bay Area Coalition, 1987
Honorary Member, Golden Key National Honor Society, 1987
Leadership Award, Second Annual Women’s Leadership Conference, San Francisco Women’s Center, 1983