Floyd Cheung is a professor of English language & literature and American studies at Smith College. He has edited and co-edited several books, including Holy Prayers in a Horse's Ear (Rutgers University Press, 2008) and Recovered Legacies: Authority and Identity in Early Asian American Literature (Temple University Press, 2005), and his essays have been published in The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature, Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies 2, and the Journal of American Culture.