Pamela ThomaPamela Thoma is associate professor of English and the director of the Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington State University. She specializes in Asian American literary and cultural studies and feminist media studies. She i the author of Asian American Women's Popular Literature: Feminizing Genres and Neoliberal Belonging (2014) and editor of a forthcoming volume on the fiction of Karen Tei Yamashita. Her essays have been published in Contemporary Women's Writing (2014), Feminist Media Studies (2009), and Gendering the Recession: Media and Culture in an Age of Austerity (2014), edited by Diane Negra and Yvonne Tasker. Read More Read Less