Yasuko KaseYasuko Kase is Professor of English at the University of the Ryukyus. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from SUNY at Buffalo. She taught undergraduate courses in Asian American Studies at SUNY at Buffalo before taking her position at the Uniersity of the Ryukyus. Her research interests include Asian American literature, Trauma Studies, Neurohumanities, Health Humanities, and Disability Studies. From October 2018 through July 2019, she was a resident Fulbright Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where she worked on her project "Race, Trauma, Medicine: Asian American Writing on the Asian Pacific War." Her articles have appeared in the 'Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies' and other academic journals. Currently, she is working on her book project on Asian American writings on health and illness supported by a grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Read More Read Less