Hi! I am Cheryl Narumi Naruse.
I am Associate Professor of English at Tulane University and my research interests include Asian Anglophone and Asian American literatures, postcolonial theory, and cultural histories of capitalism.
My articles have appeared in journals such as biography, Genre, and Verge, as well as edited collections like The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics and Singapore Literature and Culture: Current Directions in Local and Global Contexts.
I have worked with brilliant colleagues throughout my career:
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With Weihsin Gui, I co-edited the special issue, "Singapore at 50: At the Intersections of Globalization and Postcoloniality," for Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.
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I co-edited a Periscope dossier of Social Text with Nadine Chan on "Global Asia: Critical Aesthetics and Alternative Globalities," which was based off of an international symposium of the same topic we organized at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
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With Sunny Xiang and Shashi Thandra, I co-edited a special issue of "Literature and Postcolonial Capitalism" for ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature.
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I am currently working on an edited collection of critical and creative works, Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Singapore (under contract with Duke University Press), with Joanne Leow and Faris Joraimi.
Education and Experience
I am a proud alum of the University of Hawaiʻi of Mānoa, where I received my Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in English. My graduate training was shaped by courses in cultural studies in Asia/Pacific, Political Science, and American Studies. While at UHM, I received a certificate in International Cultural Studies from the East-West Center.
My research has been supported by a postdoctoral fellowship with the Global Asia research cluster at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
For 2024-25, I am The Jack and Nancy Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar in History at Simon Fraser University, where I am working on my second monograph, Cold Southeast Asia: Reading Postcolonial Singapore/Malaysia in Asian America.
I grew up in Singapore and Tokyo before moving to the United States.