Rei Magosaki

Assistant Professor of English, 2008
magosaki@chapman.edu

Ph.D., English Language & Literature, University of Virginia, 2008
B.A., English and French, Amherst College, 2000

Rei Magosaki is a specialist in the field of twentieth-century American literature and culture, whose research and teaching embraces Anglophone world literature with a special emphasis on ethnic American literatures, particularly Asian American.  Her critical emphasis is on issues of gender compounded by postcolonial and transnational approaches that see literature in a global frame.  Her current project, Sexing the City:  Contemporary U.S. Women Writers and the Global Metropolis, addresses contemporary women's writing from the late 1950s to the present which envisions the city as a vibrant site of matrilineal empowerment, creative connections, multicultural catalytic energies, and diasporic homecoming, even as it grapples with new problems of globalization in the postindustrial American city.  Her most recent essay on approaches in narrative theory will be published in Japan, to appear in  (Bensei Press, forthcoming)