Colleen Lye (Ph.D., Columbia) is Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Asian American Research Center (AARC) at 91 Berkeley, where she teaches courses on historical materialism and critical theory,Asian American Studies, and 20th and 21st century literature. She is affiliated with the Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory and the Department of Rhetoric. Lye currently serves on the editorial boards of Representations,Inter-Asia Cultural Studies and Postmodern Culture. Besides these venues, her writing has appeared in Modern Languages Quarterly, PMLA, South Atlantic Quarterly, American Literature, American Literary History, Interventions, Novel, Positions, The Journal of Asian American Studies, Public Books and Commune.
'ǴǰAmerica's Asia (Princeton 2005) received the Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies, and was named a finalist for the John Hope Franklin Prize from the American Studies Association and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. She coedited a 2022 Cambridge anthology on value theory and literature, as well as numerous special journal issues on the topics of peripheral realism, forms of Asia, financialization, and the humanities and university struggles. The dossier The Struggle for Public Education in California (coedited with Christopher Newfield) appeared in a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly that won MLA's Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) Award for Best Special Issue of 2011.
Lye is writing a book on Asian American intellectual contributions to historical materialism in the United States in the global sixties.
The long sixties; realism and naturalism; critical theory; critical university studies.
