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Yong Chen is Professor of History and Chancellor鈥檚 Fellow at UCI, where he served as the Associate Dean in the Office of Research and Graduate Studies (1999-2004). He is the author of Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America (Columbia University Press, 2014); Chinese San Francisco 1850-1943 (Stanford, 2000) and The Chinese in San Francisco (Peking University Press, 2009), and co-editor of New Perspectives on American History (Hebei People鈥檚 Publishing House, 2010). He was also the co-curator of 鈥溾�楬ave You Eaten Yet?鈥�: The Chinese Restaurant in America鈥� in Atwater Kent Museum, Philadelphia (2006), and the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, New York City (2004鈥�05). He serves on the National Landmarks Committee of the advisory board of the National Park Service of the United States.

Scott, English Department chair, teaches and researches primarily in the areas of 19th-century American literature and cultural history and in popular culture.

The inseparability of literature and popular culture was cemented early for Scott, thanks to the small used book store where he spent countless hours at an early age. He brought home Twain, Verne, Huxley, and Orwell, as well as cheap science fiction paperbacks and comic books purchased 10-for-a-dollar. Since then, Scott has published scholarship on the 19th-century work of figures such as Herman Melville, Mark Twain and the painter William Sidney Mount. With Carmen Sarracino, he co-authored 鈥楾he Porning of America: The Rise of Porn Culture, What It Means, and Where We Go from Here鈥� (Beacon, 2008). The book explores how the United States has been adopting the ideology of power-oriented pornography in many of its social institutions. A personal highlight for Scott is the week the book was positively discussed by 海角社区week, Ms. Magazine, Focus on the Family, and XBIZ the porn industry鈥檚 business news source.

His recent publication returned to his childhood interests in comics and graphic novels . In 2015, McFarland published his edited collection 鈥淢arvel Comics Civil War and the Age of Terror: Critical Essays on the Comic Saga.鈥� The essays investigate how Marvel鈥檚 鈥淐ivil War鈥� comic event responded to challenges to civil liberties following 9/11.

Scott received a bachelor鈥檚 degree in English from Ball State University, a master鈥檚 degree in English from Iowa State University and a doctorate in American Studies from Purdue University.