Speakers, Facilitators, & Panelists
Dr. Mimi Khúc
Mimi Khúc (she/her) is a writer, scholar, and teacher of things unwell. She was the 2023 Scholar / Artist / Activist in Residence for FLOURISH: Community-Engaged Arts and Social Wellness at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and is currently the Co-Editor of The Asian American Literary Review and an adjunct lecturer in Disability Studies at Georgetown University.
Dr. Jonathan Alexander
Jonathan Alexander is Chancellor’s Professor of English at UC, Irvine. His most recent book is Writing and Desire: Queer Ways of Composing.
Dr. Traise Yamamoto
Traise Yamamoto is an Associate Professor of English at UC, Riverside. She is the author of Masking Selves, Making Subjects: Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body (University of California Press, 1999), and her scholarly work has appeared in Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society; positions: east asia cultures critique; The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism; Race, Gender and Class; and Asian American Literature: A Brief Introduction.
Dr. Emma Stapely
Emma Stapely is an Assistant Professor of English at UC, Riverside. She specializes in American literatures before 1900 and the long 18th-century Anglophone Atlantic. She is the author of Afterlives of the American Revolution: Insurgent Remains (Palgrave 2024).
Dr. erin Khuê Ninh
erin Khuê Ninh is a Professor and current Chair of the Asian American Studies Department at UC, Santa Barbara. Her research centers on the model minority not as myth, but as racialization and identity. Throughlines in her writing and teaching are the subtleties of power, harm, and subject formation, whether in the contexts of terror and war, of family and immigration, or of gendering and rape culture. Ninh's recent monograph is Passing for Perfect: College Impostors and Other Model Minorities, a New Yorker featured book that examines the pressures of striving to achieve the "success frame," where failure is too ruinous to admit.
Maile Aihua Young
Maile Aihua Young (they/them) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Their research examines the post-1945 development of global public health culture through epidemiology and Asian diasporic literature
Claire Chun
Claire Chun (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Ethnic Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her research explores how modern conceptualizations of “Korean” and “Asian” beauty, wellness, and aesthetics are shaped by overlapping forces of US militarism, tourism, and humanitarianism.
Row Ramires
Row Ramires is a Ph.D candidate in the English Department at UC, Irvine.