King-Kok Cheung

King-Kok Cheung is Professor of English and Asian American Studies at UCLA. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of Articulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa (Cornell,1993); editor of Words Matter (U of Hawaii Press, 2000), An Interethnic Companion to Asian American literature (Cambridge, 1996), "Seventeen Syllables" (Rutgers, 1994), Asian American literature: An Annotated Bibliography (MLA, 1988) and a co-editor of The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Her articles have appeared in American Literary History, Biography, Bucknell Review, MELUS, Milton Studies, PMLA, Positions and Shakespeare Quarterly. She has received an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowship, a Mellon fellowship, a Fulbright award, and a resident fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford. She was Director of the University of California Education Abroad Program in Beijing from 2007 to 2010.