John R. Eperjesi is a Professor in the Department of English Linguistics and Literature at Kyung Hee University in Seoul. He received his Ph.D in the Literary and Cultural Theory program at Carnegie Mellon University, and is the author of The Imperialist Imaginary: Visions of Asia and the Pacific in American Culture (University Press of New England, 2005). He has published articles and book reviews in Amerasia, Asian Studies Review, boundary 2, The Contemporary Pacific, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature and the Environment (ISLE), Journal of American Studies, Minnesota Review, and Pacific Historical Review.