Crystal S. Anderson is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Elon University in North Carolina, where she teaches courses in American literature, American Studies and Asian studies. She holds a PhD in American Studies from The College of William and Mary.

She conducts research in comparative cultural studies (African American, Asian, Asian American) focusing on literature, popular culture and visual culture. Her forthcoming book, Beyond the Chinese Connection: Afro-Asian Cultural Production in a Global Age (University of Mississippi Press) uses Bruce Lee’s films as a framework to interrogate cross-cultural dynamics within a transnational context in novels, films and anime.  She is currently working on a monograph, Women Warriors in Wuxia (under contract with The Edwin Mellen Press), which examines the female protagonists in Chinese television dramas using transnational feminist theories. She is also working on a manuscript on sageuk, or historical Korean television dramas.  Her research has appeared in African American Review, MELUS, Ethnic Studies Review and Extrapolation, as well as in several book collections.

She is also Director of KPK: Kpop Kollective, a digital cultural studies project that houses scholarly research, publishes original writing by others, and organizes, documents and preserves information on Hallyu (Korean wave) popular culture.  In addition, she writes for several online venues under the pen name “CeeFu.”  She is an editorial writer and an Assistant Chief Editor for hellokpop, an online media outlet.  She publishes on Asian popular culture on her own blog, High Yellow.  She is also a Worldwide Korea Blogger for The Korea Blog on Korea.net, the official website for the Republic of South Korea.