# Anne Anlin Cheng

anne anlin cheng is an American literary scholar and cultural theorist, known for her extensive writings on the intersections of race, gender, aesthetics, American literature, psychoanalysis, Asian American studies, and Black studies. She is currently a Professor of English and American Studies at Princeton University.Cheng was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and immigrated to the United States at the age of twelve. Cheng graduated with a Bachelor's degree in English and Creative Writing from Princeton University in 1985, earned her Master's in English and Creative Writing at Stanford University in 1987, and received a PhD in Comparative Literature at University California, Berkeley in 1994.