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Smith, Lise-Helene

Lise-Hélène Smith is Associate Professor of World Literature and Graduate Coordinator at California State Polytechnic University. She received her doctorate in Comparative Literature from UC Davis in 2005. Her research interests include exile, hybridity, and migration as linked to race and gender in the Southeast Asian diaspora, as well as in Francophone and colonial/postcolonial literatures. She has co-edited a collection of essays titled Reflections: Research Beyond Borders on conducting research abroad in a culturally and ethically sensitive manner. This interdisciplinary book sets out to reassess Western-based research practices and presents self-reflexive narratives on research experiences around the globe.