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Karen Yamashita

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Professor, Literature Department
Affiliated Faculty, Social Documentation
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Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books, including I Hotelfinalist for the National Book Award, and most recently, Letters to Memory, all published by Coffee House Press.  Recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellowship, she is Professor Emerita of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  

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Teaching Fall Quarter 2019 - SOCD 204, Enthographic Writing and Social Documentation