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AboutAnna Storti is a writer, teacher, and interdisciplinary scholar currently living in Durham, NC. She works as an Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies at Duke University where she also teaches in the Asian American & Diaspora Studies Program.
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Anna's work seeks to formulate new ways of understanding how memory and trauma affect embodiment. Specializing in art & culture across the Asian diaspora, her research and teaching engage the aesthetic and affective relations between race, empire, violence, and pleasure.
She is at work on her first book, which traces a relationship between violence and racial mixture through a series of case studies on Asian Americans with white heritage including Andrew Cunanan, Daniel Holtzclaw, Chanel Miller, Elliot Rodger, Emma Sulkowicz, and others. 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 and raised in Anaheim, CA, Anna is the daughter and 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.
She is at work on her first book, which traces a relationship between violence and racial mixture through a series of case studies on Asian Americans with white heritage including Andrew Cunanan, Daniel Holtzclaw, Chanel Miller, Elliot Rodger, Emma Sulkowicz, and others. 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 and raised in Anaheim, CA, Anna is the daughter and 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.