Eleanor Ty, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Fulbright Canada alumna, is professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University. She has published on life writing, graphic novel, Asian North American, and eighteenth-century literature. She is author of Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority (U of Illinois P, 2017); 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). Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives (Ohio State UP, 2022) won the Comics Studies Society’s 2022 Prize for Edited Book Collection.