King-Kok Cheung

King-Kok Cheung serves as Research Professor of English and Asian American Studies at UCLA, with extensive international leadership including UC EAP Study Center Director roles in Beijing (2008-2010) and Shanghai (2015-2017), Chair Professor at Renmin University of China (2018-2020), and current Special Advisor to the US-China Education Trust (2021-present).

Her academic foundation includes:

• Ph.D. in English from University of California, Berkeley (1984)

Her research integrates Comparative Literature with Ethnic American Literatures, examining Renaissance British texts alongside Asian American, African American, Native American, and Chicano/a writings through Gender and Sexuality Studies frameworks. She pioneers interdisciplinary approaches to race, culture, and literary representation across global contexts.

Her scholarly impact is recognized through major awards:

• AAAS Lifetime Achievement Award
• ACLS fellowship
• Mellon fellowship
• Fulbright lecturing and research award
• Resident fellowship at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
• UCLA Hoshide Teaching Award in Asian American Studies (2012-2013)

Cheung transforms academic landscapes through curriculum innovation including the Ford Foundation Ethnic Women Curriculum Seminar (1989), UCLA's GE Cluster on Interracial Dynamics (2000), and Mellon-funded 'Ways of Reading Race' course (2014-15), while advancing US-China educational exchange through sustained administrative leadership.