{"id":122,"date":"2026-02-04T03:06:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/cnn\/?page_id=122"},"modified":"2026-03-30T16:01:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:01:42","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cherylnaruse.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hi, I’m Cheryl Narumi Naruse<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

(last name pronounced nah-roo-seh)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am Associate Professor of English at Tulane University and my research interests include Asian Anglophone and Asian American literatures, postcolonial theory, and cultural histories of capitalism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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My first book, Becoming Global Asia: Contemporary Genres of Postcolonial Capitalism in Singapore<\/em>, was published with the Transpacific Studies series at University of California Press in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Research, Publication, and Collaboration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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My articles have appeared in journals such as biography<\/a>, Genre<\/a><\/em>, and Verge<\/a><\/em>, as well as edited collections like The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics<\/a><\/em> and Singapore Literature and Culture: Current Directions in Local and Global Contexts<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have worked with brilliant colleagues throughout my career:<\/p>\n\n\n\n