Leslie Bow

Leslie Bow is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A fourth generation Chinese American from the Bay Area, she earned a PhD at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of the award-winning, ‘Partly Colored’: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South (New York University Press, 2010); Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion: Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women's Literature (Princeton University Press, 2001) She is the editor of Asian American Feminisms (Routledge, 2012); a scholarly edition of Fiona Cheong’s novel, The Scent of the Gods (Illinois University Press, 2010); and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Twentieth-Century American Literature (2022).