B.A., Wesleyan University, 1986
Ph.D., Yale University, 1997

Academic specializations: American studies, film studies, American literature, the literature and culture of America’s encounters with Asia. Prof. Klein is currently writing a book about the globalization of U.S. and Asian film industries.

COURSES

 EN082 - Literature and Society

 EN133 - Narrative and Interpretation

 EN383.01 - Asian American Film

 EN495.01 - Asian Cinema

 EN626.01 - Studies in American Culture

 EN782.01 -  Issues and Methods in American Studies

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)

• Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961 (2003)
• "Martial Arts and the Globalization of U.S. and Asian Film Industries," Comparative American Studies (2004)
• “Crouching Tiger, hidden Dragon: A Diasporic Reading,” Cinema Journal (2004)
• "Family Ties and Political Obligation: The Discourse of Adoption and the Cold War Commitment to Asia," in Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945-1964, ed. Christian Appy (2000)
• “Transnational Conversations: A Web Pedagogy,” with Jeffrey Partridge, Academic Exchange Quarterly (2003)
• Articles on contemporary Asian and American film in the Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, YaleGlobal, South China Morning Post, Singapore Straits Times, Korea Herald, and Outlook India. .