Josephine Lee is a professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and the Editor in Chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture. Her previous books include The Japan of Pure Invention: Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado (2010) and Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage (1997). She has also co-edited Asian American Plays for
a New Generation (with R.A. Shiomi and Don Eitel, 2011) and Re/collecting Early Asian America: Essays in Cultural History (with Imogene Lim and Yuko Matsukawa, 2002) as well as the forthcoming Asian American Literature in Transition, Volume I: 1850-1930 (with Julia H. Lee). Her other writing includes essays on modern drama, contemporary
performance, and Asian American studies.