Celine Parreñas Shimizu

Celine Parreñas Shimizu is the Director of the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. Her sole-authored books include The Proximity of Other Skins: Ethical Intimacy in Global Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2020), Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies (Stanford University Press, 2012), and The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene (Duke University Press, 2007), winner of the 2009 Best Book Prize in Cultural Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies. She also coedited The Feminist Porn Book (Feminist Press, 2013). She was a 1999 Sexuality Research Fellowship Program Dissertation Fellow.