Photo by Anna Storti
Orange, CA
July 2023

Anna Storti is a writer, professor, and interdisciplinary scholar. Her work rethinks how we experience desire, risk, and everyday life.
 
Since 2021, she's been an Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University where she also teaches in the Asian American and Diaspora Studies program. Her work has been supported by the McNair Scholars Program, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Institute for Citizens and Scholars.

Her first book, Torn: Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence, is forthcoming with Duke University Press. Set predominately in the years following the Vietnam War, Torn observes how mixed race Asian Americans refuse, rework, or reify the logics of progress and disavowal that have long fueled the U.S. war machine.
 
She is currently at work on two books, one on late-stage capitalism and the cultures of vice and another on moisture and climate disaster.
 
Born in Anaheim, CA and raised across the suburbs of Orange County, Anna is the daughter and great-granddaughter of Filipina/o and Italian immigrants. She graduated cum laude from Cal Poly Pomona, double majoring in Gender, Ethnicity, and Multicultural Studies and Business Management. Prior to her appointment at Duke, she was the Guarini Dean's Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian American Studies at Dartmouth College. She holds a Ph.D. in Women's Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park.