Meera is on the faculty of Asian American Studies Program at Hunter College, CUNY and was formerly an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, Linguistics at Syracuse University. For over a decade, she has taught courses on Asian cinema, Asian American Studies, postcolonial literature and theory, and critical race studies. In addition to these areas, her research and writing focuses on psychoanalysis (with emphasis on Freud & Lacan), critical theory and continental philosophy.

Meera is the author of Who’s Afraid of Hemingway Men: Reconstructing Masculinity in Freud and Lacan (Seoul: Doing-In, 2006): originally titled in Korean 『누가 헤밍웨이 남성을 두려워 하는가?』. Her academic articles and essays appeared in positions: asia critique, Telos, Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, Tamkang Review, Verge: Global Asias and 21st Century Literature 「21세기 문학」, as well as the edited book Psychoanalyzing Cinema. She is currently working on two book projects, a monograph, tentatively titled, Of Cruelty: The Superego Today and an edited volume, titled, Lacan’s Cruelty: Perversion Beyond Philosophy, Culture and the Clinic, which will be published with Palgrave for the Lacan Series.

Meera received her Ph.D. and B.A. in English from Dankook University, Seoul and was a postdoctoral fellow in the English Department at Syracuse University. She was an exchange student in American Studies at University of Oregon. She has also pursued a graduate study in clinical psychology and is continuing a clinical training at a psychoanalytic institute. She is bilingual in English and Korean.