Darrell Y. Hamamoto was a lecturer in the Program in
Comparative Culture at the University of California, Irvine. He was
the 1990-91 recipient of a Rockefeller Research Fellowship at the
Asian American Studies Center at UCLA and taught in the School of
Film and Television as a visiting professor. His previous book is
Nervous Laughter: Television Situation Comedy and Liberal
Democratic Ideology (1989). In 1993, he received a Fullbright
Fellowship to lecture at Hiroshima University, Japan, on the
subjects of media, popular culture, and U.S. racial and ethnic
relations. He is currently developing the Asian American Studies
Department at University of California, Davis.
His latest book is
Monitored Peril: Asian Americans and the Politics of TV Representation.