​Anna Storti is a writer, professor, and interdisciplinary scholar. Her work engages contemporary art and culture as generative sites to rethink how desire, risk, and everyday life proceed within structures of power and endangerment.
 
Since 2021, she's been an Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies at Duke University where she is also Core Faculty in Asian American & Diaspora Studies. Her research has been supported by the McNair Scholars Program, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Institute for Citizens and Scholars.

She is the author of Torn: Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence (Duke University Press, 2026). Set predominately in the years following the Vietnam War, Torn is a book about the US empire and its unrelenting violence. To tell that story, it traverses an ever-growing archive of cultural and aesthetic portrayals of Asian and white racial mixture. In doing so, it reveals the peculiar ways American imperialism leaves its subjects feeling 'torn': split, partial, divided, or uncertain. A treatise on mixed Asians and a critical study on whiteness, Torn aligns questions of personhood with demands for social transformation, uplifting shared struggle as one solution to our world’s most pressing challenges.
 
Currently, she is at work on a new book about the cultural politics of vice. Drawing on several strands of feminist and queer theory, this project surveys the post-2020 global landscape to explore how vices—the act of indulging in them and efforts to regulate them—lay bare the conditions of precarity and dispossession that define the 21st century.