YASUKO KANNO is Assistant Professor of TESOL/Applied Linguistics in the Department of English of the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Her research interests include bilingual education, multilingual and multicultural identities, and sociocultural experiences of language minority students. She is author of "Negotiating Bilingual and Bicultural Identities: Japanese Returnees Betwixt Two Worlds," She serves on the editorial boards of the "Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism" and the "International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism,"