Catherine Liu

Catherine Liu is Professor of Film and Media Studies and Visual Studies at University of California Irvine. She is the author of American Idyll: Anti-Elitism as Cultural Critique (University of Iowa Press, 2011) and Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton (University of Minnesota Press, 2000). She is also the author of the 2012 novel Oriental Girls Desire Romance. She has recently completed a memoir of middle-aged emancipation titled Panda Gifts.