About Me
I am Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Haverford College. I hold a Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
queering the global filipina body
Order my book here. Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora explores how Filipina/x/o American cultural production queers the Philippine nation by unsettling the gendered and sexual politics of popular and state nationalisms.
Honorable Mention, Best Book in Filipinx American Studies, 2020, Filipino Studies section, Association of Asian American Studies
My Research and Teaching
My research and teaching explore how gender and queer sexuality inform notions of nation, diaspora, and transnational belonging in a contemporary context of globalization. I am the author of Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora (University of Illinois Press, 2020) and the co-editor, with Dr. Karen Buenavista Hanna, of Beyond the X: Queer and Trans Filipinx Studies (under contract with the University of Washington Press).
reviews and interviews
Reviews of Queering the Global Filipina Body:
QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking
Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies | download pdf
Interview in the Gettysburg News