Josephine Nock-Hee Park is Professor of English and Director of the Asian American Studies Program at The University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Apparitions of Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics (2008), which garnered the Literary Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies, and Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian America (2016). She presently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Asian American Studies and Verge: Studies in Global Asias.