Sharon Tran is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her scholarly research focuses on multiethnic American literatures and cultures with an emphasis on Asian American studies, gender studies, and critical disability studies. Her published writing has appeared in MELUS, the Journal of Asian American Studies, Contemporary Literature, and Signs. At present, she is working on a book manuscript tentatively titled “Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of U.S. Empire,” which develops Asian girlhood as a critical analytic and methodological lens for exploring questions of race, gender, and empire.