Faculty

Lisa Nakamura.

Lisa Nakamura

228 Gregory Hall
(217) 244-3768
lnakamur - at - uiuc.edu

Education

Ph.D., Graduate Center, City University of New York (English)
B.A., Reed College

Affiliations

Associate Professor of Communications
Associate Professor of Asian American Studies
Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies

Course Specialties

New Media Theory and History
Visual Culture
Asian Americans and Media
Race and Ethnicity and Media

Background

Nakamura is an Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Fellow for the 2007-2008 academic year.

Research/Creative Endeavor

Nakamura has published three books on new media and racial and gender identity. She is the author of "Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet" (University of Minnesota, 2008), "Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet" (Routledge, 2002), and co-editor of "Race in Cyberspace" (Routledge, 2000). She has published articles on race and the new media in Popular Culture: A Reader, The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, Women's Review of Books, "Unspun: Key Terms for the World Wide Web," "The Cybercultures Reader," "Reload: Rethinking Women and Cyberculture," "Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices," and "The Visual Culture Reader, 2.0." Her areas of interest include new media, media and cultural studies, race and gender. She is working on a book manuscript about technologies of identity such as facial recognition systems, digital personal profiles and other biometrics in the context of MMOs (Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Games), terror television and film.

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