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Yasuko Kase is Professor of English at the University of the Ryukyus. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from SUNY at Buffalo. She taught undergraduate courses in Asian American Studies at SUNY at Buffalo before taking her position at the University of the Ryukyus. Her research interests include Asian American literature, Trauma Studies, Neurohumanities, Health Humanities, and Disability Studies. From October 2018 through July 2019, she was a resident Fulbright Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where she worked on her project ""Race, Trauma, Medicine: Asian American Writing on the Asian Pacific War."" Her articles have appeared in the 'Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies' and other academic journals. Currently, she is working on her book project on Asian American writings on health and illness supported by a grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Eliko Kosaka is an Associate Professor of English language at Hosei University. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Her research interests include Asian American literature and Trauma Studies with a particular focus on narratives about Japanese American internment, transnational/migrant Japanese, and the Asia-Pacific War. Her articles have appeared in 'Amerasia Journal and Asian American Literary Association (AALA) Journal, ' among other academic journals. Currently, she is working on her monograph on Kibei writings to be published at a future date.
""Emerging from the Rubble"" is a sincere, erudite, and critical engagement with the history of our environmental crisis from the vantage point of transpacific Asian/American culture. With theoretical finesse and historical groundedness, the volume curates a set of wide-ranging essays to crack open the secretive linkage between imperial, colonial, racial, and environmental violence, and shows how the environmental crisis, while global in scale, is often racially and geographically specific. Calling for a reckoning with our precarity in the era of Capitalocene, it rewrites and advances the eco-critical scholarship from the nuclear fallout of Hiroshima and Nagasaki through the eco-horror in Vietnam to the dystopia of escaping the pandemic where survival must be the task of the humanities. Prof. Chih-ming Wang Institute of European and American studies, Taiwan From the corroded edges of empire and the deep-seated rust of a world remade by disaster, this collection echoes with Asian American voices. It's a lyrical unveiling of quiet strength, navigating landscapes scarred by capital's relentless tide and the profound human cost of our intertwined fates. Prof. Shin Yamashiro The University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan
