Kent Ono

228 Gregory Hall
(217) 244-1417
kaono@illinois.edu

Education

PhD, University of Iowa (1992)
MA, Miami University (1988)
BA, DePauw University (1987)

Affiliations

Professor, Media and Cinema Studies
Professor, Asian American Studies
Affiliated Professor, Department of Communication

Course Specialties

Asian American Media and Film
Moving Memories: History and Memory Studies in Communication
Rhetoric, Race, and Media
Media, Metaphor, and Marginality
Media Criticism

Background

Professor Ono conducts critical and theoretical research of print, film and television media, specifically focusing on representations of race, gender, sexuality, class and nation. He has contributed essays to numerous journals including Communication Monographs, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Western Journal of Communication, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Amerasia Journal, Journal of Asian American Studies, and Cultural Studies.

He has authored "Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past" (Peter Lang, 2009). Also, in addition to co-authoring "Asian Americans and the Media" with Vincent Pham (Polity 2009) and "Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration, and California's Proposition 187" with John Sloop (Temple University Press, 2002), he has co-edited "Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek" with Taylor Harrison, Sarah Projansky, and Elyce Helford (Westview Press, 1996) and has edited "Asian American Studies after Critical Mass" (Blackwell, 2005) and "A Companion to Asian American Studies" (Blackwell, 2005).

Ono directed the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2002-2007. He also directed the Cultural Studies Program at the University of California at Davis from 1999-2002. He founded the Asian American Cultural Politics Research Cluster at UC Davis in 1997. He wrote the proposal to create the journal, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. He helped propose, organize and chair the Critical and Cultural Studies Division of NCA from 2000-2001; chaired the Asian Pacific American Caucus of NCA in 1996-1997; co-chaired the Asian Pacific American Caucus of the Society for Cinema Studies (1999-2001); and has planned several conferences.

He co-edits the book series "Critical Cultural Communication" with Sarah Banet-Weiser at New York University Press. He is also co-editor-elect of the journal "Critical Studies in Media Communication" with Ronald Jackson.

Research/Creative Endeavor

Ono's research areas include: rhetorical studies, media and cultural studies, film studies and Asian American studies.

Recently published articles:

• Ono, Kent A. Critical/Cultural Approaches to Communication. In William F. Eadie (Ed.) 21st Century Communication: A Reference Handbook, pp. 74-81. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (2009)
• Pham, Vincent and Kent A. Ono. "Artful Bigotry & Kitsch": A Study of Stereotype, Mimicry, and Satire in Asian American T-Shirt Rhetoric. In LuMing Mao and Morris Young (Eds.) Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric. Logan: Utah State University Press, 175-197. (2008)
• Ono, Kent A. and Joy Yang Jiao. China in the U.S. Imaginary: Tibet, the Olympics, and the 2008 Earthquake. Communication and Critical Cultural Studies 5 (4): 406-410. (2008)
• Ono, Kent A. The Biracial Subject as Passive Receptacle for Japanese American Memory in Come See the Paradise. In Mary Beltrn and Camilla Fojas (Eds.) Mixed Race Hollywood. New York: New York University Press. 136-154. (2008)

Related Links

• Ono's Curriculum Vita
• Ono's Profile on Asian American Studies Web site