Professor David S. Goldstein teaches American and ethnic studies as a senior lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program at the University of Washington, Bothell, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2007 and where he directs the Teaching and Learning Center. He publishes internationally on ethnic American literature and in the scholarship of teaching and learning. The University of Washington Press published his co-edited volume, Complicating Constructions: Race, Ethnicity and Hybridity in American Texts, in 2007. He lives with his family in Seattle, Washington.