Orange, CA
July 2023 |
I am a writer, professor, and interdisciplinary scholar. My research areas include the racial and sexual politics of U.S. imperialism, contemporary Asian American literary, visual, and performance cultures, and queer and feminist social movements.
Since 2021, I've been an Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University where I also teach in the Asian American & Diaspora Studies program. In 2023, I was appointed an Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professorship. At the core of my scholarship is an exploration of how race, gender, and sexuality emerge and overlap in the cultural domains of U.S. imperialism. In my writing and in my classrooms, I seek to formulate new ways of understanding 1) the aesthetic and affective relations between race, empire, violence, and pleasure; and 2) how memory and traumatic feeling affect embodiment. I am currently at work on my first book, which asks what the growing population of mixed race white and Asian Americans elucidates about U.S. imperial expansion and the permanence of war. I am also at work on a second book, which spotlights the practice and cultures of vice. I was born and raised in Anaheim, CA and am the daughter and great-granddaughter of Filipina/o and Italian immigrants. I graduated cum laude from Cal Poly Pomona as a Ronald E. McNair Scholar and double major in Gender, Ethnicity, and Multicultural Studies and Business Management. Prior to joining Duke, I was the Guarini Dean's Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian American Studies at Dartmouth College. I hold a Ph.D. in Women's Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park. |