Christine Kim is an assistant professor of English at Simon Fraser University. Her teaching and research focus on Asian North American literature and theory, contemporary Canadian literature, and diasporic writing. She has recently published articles in "Open Letter", "Studies in Canadian Literature", and "Asian Canadian Writing beyond Autoethnography" (WLU Press, 2008). She is currently working on a book-length project titled "From Multiculturalism to Globalization: The Cultural Politics of Asian Canadian Writing".