Helen Jun
	601 South Morgan Street (MC 162) University Hall, Suite 1924 Chicago, IL 60607 Phone: 312.413.2223 Fax: 312.413.1005 Email: junhelen@uic.edu Curriculum Vitae
Assistant Professor
Asian American literature

Helen Jun engages in comparative analyses of race and culture in the context of U.S. empire. She specializes in Asian American and African American literature and history, with emphasis on issues of citizenship, nationalism, U.S. imperialism in Asia, globalization, and the prison industrial complex. She has recently completed a study of how Asian Americans and African Americans have been racially defined in relation to each other in her dissertation, "Race for Citizenship: Asian American and African American Cultural Politics."