Feature APA Faculty Profiles

Dr. Mina Shin

Dr. Mina Shin is originally from Seoul, Korea where she was born and grew up for most of her life. She received her B.A. from Seoul National University majoring in Korean Literature and Language Education. After working as a copywriter for an advertising company for a few years she came to the U.S. to study film at the University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts where she received her master and Ph.D. degrees. She currently holds a joint appointment in the Department of Linguistics & Languages and the Department of English. Her experiences as a racial minority in the States have shaped her interests in representation of race and ethnicities in Hollywood films and American popular culture. Her research and teaching interests include Asian images in Hollywood Cinema, Race, Gender, and Sexuality, Transnational East Asian Cinemas and Cultures (Korea, China, Japan and India), Globalization and Film Culture, US-Asia Relations, Asian Diaspora, and Postcolonial Theory. She is currently revising her Ph.D. dissertation titled “Yellow Hollywood: Asian Martial Arts in US Globa lCinema” for book publication.

Eng-Beng Lim

Eng-Beng Lim specializes in theater, drama and performance studies with a focus on transnational, Asian and queer issues. His teaching and research areas include critical and performance theory, LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex) and racial performance, and international drama. He has lectured widely at universities in the U.S.,U.K., and Asia, and has published essays and reviews in Theatre Journal, Asian Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, Theatre Survey, and (forthcoming in) Social Text. His first book-in progress, Tropic Spells: Performing Queer Encounters in the Asias, explores white man/native boys˛ as a performative dyad that is central to understanding colonial as well as national and transnational performances in Singapore, Bali and Asian America. His second project examines theneoliberal cultural politics of the global university.

Lim’s work has been recognized with several competitive fellowships, honors and awards, including those from American Society for Theatre Research, and Association for Theater in Higher Education. He is on the editorial collective of Social Text, and is a 2009 FMS-Mellon Fellow (Future of Minority Studies) which will convene at Cornell University this summer. At MSU, he is also a core faculty of Center for Gender in Global Context and the Global Studies Program. Lim looks forward to working with Asian Pacific Islander American faculty, students and staff at MSU.