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Anna Storti, Ph.D. is a writer, professor, and interdisciplinary scholar currently living in Durham, NC. Since 2021, she has been an Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies at Duke University where she also teaches in the Asian American and Diaspora Studies Program. In 2023, she was appointed an Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professorship.
Specializing in contemporary art and culture across the Asian diaspora, her research and teaching engage the aesthetic and affective relations between race, empire, violence, and pleasure. Her work seeks to formulate new ways of understanding how memory and trauma affect embodiment. |
She is at work on her first book, which asks what the growing population of mixed race white and Asian Americans elucidates about imperial intimacy and the permanence of war. She is also at work on a second book, which surrounds the practice and cultures of vice. Here, she examines how Asian Americans turn to particular objects—mahjong tiles, porcelain, cigarettes, mirrors, and leather— as forms of indulgence in the wake of violence.
Born in Anaheim, CA, Anna is the daughter and great-granddaughter of Filipina and Italian immigrants. A Ronald E. McNair Scholar, she graduated from Cal Poly Pomona with degrees 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, and she holds a PhD in Women's Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Born in Anaheim, CA, Anna is the daughter and great-granddaughter of Filipina and Italian immigrants. A Ronald E. McNair Scholar, she graduated from Cal Poly Pomona with degrees 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, and she holds a PhD in Women's Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park.