Shirley J. Lim

Bio:

In addition to my position in the History Department, I'm an affiliate faculty in Women and Gender Studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, and Africana Studies. I have held a research fellowship at Australian National University (2010). My first book was A Feeling of Belonging: Asian American Women’s Public Culture, 1930–1960 (NYU Press, 2006). My second book, Anna May Wong: Performing the Modern (2019) has been recently published by Temple University Press. 

Select Works:

"'Speaking German Like Nobody's Business': Anna May Wong, Walter Benjamin, and the Possibilities of Asian American Cosmopolitanism." 

"Flapper Chic" (radio interview). 

"Oriental Stardust: Anna May Wong in White Australia" (radio interview).