Anne Anlin Cheng is Professor of English, and affiliated faculty in the Program in American Studies, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Committee on Film Studies. She is author of "The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation," and "Hidden Grief; Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface;" and, most recently, "Ornamentalism." Her essays have appeared in New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Huffington Post.
