Lisa Nakamura

228 Gregory Hall
(217) 244-3768
lnakamur@illinois.edu

Education

Ph.D., Graduate Center, City University of New York (English)
B.A., Reed College

Affiliations

Professor of Media and Cinema Studies
Professor of Asian American Studies
Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies

Course Specialties

New and Digital Media
Games Studies
Race, Ethnicity, and Media
Critical Theory
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Cultural Studies

Research/Creative Endeavor

Lisa Nakamura is the Director of the Asian American Studies Program, Professor in the Institute of Communication Research and Media Studies Program, and Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.

She is the author of "Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet" (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), "Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity and Identity on the Internet" (Routledge, 2002) and co-editor of "Race in Cyberspace" (Routledge, 2000).

She has published articles in Critical Studies in Media Communication, PMLA, Cinema Journal, The Womens Review of Books, Camera Obscura, and the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies. She is editing a collection with Peter Chow-White entitled "Digital Race: An Anthology" (Routledge, forthcoming), and she is working on a new monograph on social inequality in virtual worlds, tentatively entitled "Workers Without Bodies: Towards a Theory of Race and Digital Labor in Virtual Worlds, or, Why World of Warcraft needs a Civil Rights Movement."

Related Links

• Nakamura's Web site