Overview
Rei Magosaki is a specialist in the field of twentieth- and twenty-first century American literature and culture.
Dr. Magosaki’s monograph, Tricksters and Cosmopolitans: Cross-Cultural Collaborations in Asian American Literary Production (Fordham UP, 2016), is the first sustained exploration into the history of cross-cultural collaborations between Asian American writers and their non-Asian American editors and publishers. A documentation of the dramatically changing publishing history from the late nineteenth century through the age of global capitalism, the book reveals a range of negotiations between authors and their publishers, between their shared investment in both politics and aesthetics which influenced the narrative structure of key works in major works of Asian American narrative fiction.
Her latest research interest is on WWII Japanese American wartime incarceration literature. Dr. Magosaki was the recipient of Chapman University’s faculty grant for scholarly activity in 2011, 2012, and 2019, and an inaugural fellow at University of Tulsa's 2023 Second Book Institute.