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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, & 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.

Her first book traces the ways Asian Americans have either sought to or failed to contend with US imperialism and its unrelenting violence. Set predominately in the years following the Vietnam War, Torn: Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence (Duke University Press, 2026) traverses an ever-growing archive of aesthetic, literary, and cultural portrayals of Asian/white racial mixture. In doing so, the book observes how empire's historical subjects either 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 the cultural politics of vice and another on moisture and climate disaster.