Eleanor Ty, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is Professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University. She works on cultural memory, graphic novel, life writing, Asian North American, and 18th century literature. She was a Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair at UC Santa Barbara in 2019. Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority (U of Illinois P, 2017) won the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award for Literature in Adult Non-Fiction Category for 2017. Author of Unfastened: Globality and Asian North American Narratives (U of Minnesota P, 2010), and The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives (U Toronto P 2004), she recently edited Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives (Ohio State UP 2022).