Photo by Anna Storti
Orange, CA
July 2023

​Anna Storti is a writer, professor, and interdisciplinary scholar. Her work examines the racial and sexual politics of US imperialism, contemporary Asian American culture, and queer and feminist social movements.

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.

​​At its core, her research rethinks how race, gender, and sexuality emerge and overlap in the cultural domains of US empire. In her writing and classrooms, she seeks 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 everyday life. 

Her first book, Torn: Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence, is forthcoming with Duke University Press. She is also at work on a second book, which spotlights the practice and cultures of vice.

​Born and raised in Anaheim, California, she is the daughter and great-granddaughter of Filipina/o and Italian immigrants. She graduated cum laude from Cal Poly Pomona as a double major in Gender, Ethnicity, and Multicultural Studies and Business Management. Prior to joining 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