Bio

Mari Yoshihara is a professor of American studies at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, specializing in US cultural history, US-Asian relations, gender studies, literary and cultural studies, and music. She currently serves as the editor of American Quarterly, the journal of the American Studies Association. Her publications include Embracing the East: White Women and American Orientalism (Oxford, 2003), Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music (Temple, 2007), and numerous books and articles in Japanese. She is currently completing a book, tentatively titled Dearest Lenny: Letters from Japan and the Making of the World Maestro, scheduled for release by Oxford University Press in early 2019.