Christina D. Owens is a faculty member in the Honors Program at Florida State University. She received her doctorate in Cultural Studies at the University of California, Davis, where she also completed a Designated Emphases in Feminist Theory & Research. Her scholarship sits at the intersection of transnational American Studies, postcolonial studies, and gender and sexuality studies. She is currently working on her first book project, Colorblind Imperialism: White Masculinities in Contemporary Japan, and has published in American Studies (“Traveling Yellow Peril: Race, Gender, and Empire in Japan’s English Teaching Industry”), American Quarterly (“The Global American Studies Classroom”), and Transformations (“When Filipino Prisoners Go Viral”). Dr. Owens engages the broader public via her cultural commentary in Dismantle Magazine, an online publication where her most cited article is “Full Spandex Suits and Other Fashion Fantasies in ‘Weird Japan’ Media Coverage.” At FSU she teaches interdisciplinary courses in the Honor Experience Program’s “Freedom and (In)Equality” course cluster.

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