Julie Mehta

Dr. Julie Mehta teaches Cultural Studies and Diasporic Asian Literature  at the University of Toronto’s Canadian Studies Program and Department of English. A scholar of Postcolonial Literatures, she currently works on representations of Asian Canadian identity and how food and language are employed by Asian-North American diasporic writers to signpost identity and preserve memory in their adopted homelands. Dr. Mehta is the author of Dance of Life: Mythology, History and Politics of Cambodian Culture (2001), a cultural study about how transnational efforts by displaced Khmer people preserved Cambodian culture when it was resurrected post- genocide in the ’70s. She is also co-author of the best-selling biography of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen: Strongman of Cambodia  being launched in its second edition worldwide in July  this year, with historian Dr. Harish Mehta.