RESEARCH
My research explores how gender and queer sexuality inform notions of nation, diaspora, and transnational belonging in a contemporary context of globalization. My writing and teaching encompass a range of fields, including queer studies, feminist theory, transnational feminisms, women of color feminisms, diaspora studies, ethnic studies, and Asian American/Filipina/x/o American studies. My research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges, the Teagle Foundation, the Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund, and the University of California Office of the President.
books
Beyond the X: Queer and Trans Filipinx Studies (working title). Co-edited with Dr. Karen Buenavista Hanna (Connecticut College), this collection of essays and poems foregrounds the work of queer femme, trans, and nonbinary poets, organizers, and emerging scholars in the field of queer and trans Filipinx studies. Under contract with the University of Washington Press.
Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora (University of Illinois Press, 2020), “queers” the ubiquitous figure of the global Filipina body through an analysis of several figures of Filipina/x/o transnationalism - the Filipina "mail order bride," the "trafficked" woman, the Filipina/x/o American balikbayan (expatriate), and the cyborg - within Filipina/x/o American performance, video/film, and websites. Queering the Global Filipina Body explores the political possibilities and tensions between diasporic support for revolutionary nationalisms and feminist and queer critiques of the nation. Offering a serious consideration of the political potential of revolutionary, diasporic nationalisms as a form of resistance to U.S. imperialism and capitalist globalization, Queering the Global Filipina Body examines the gendered and sexual politics of representing the nation within Filipina/x/o diasporic cultural production.
book reviews
Mimi Nguyen, The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages (Duke University Press, 2012). Murderous Inclusions. Special issue of the International Feminist Journal of Politics. 15:4 (2013): 570-57
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journal articles, essays, and book chapters
“Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora.” Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies, 2, no. 2 (2022).
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“That’s My Tomboy”: Queer Filipinx Diasporic Transmasculinities.” Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies, 2, no. 1 (2022).
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“Queer and Trans Necropolitics in the Afterlife of U.S. Empire.” in “Rethinking Gendered Citizenship–Intimacy, Sovereignty, and Empire,” ed. Genevieve Clutario and Rana Jaleel, special issue, Amerasia Journal 46, no. 2 (2021)
"Negotiating Legacies: The 'Traffic in Women' and the Politics of Filipina/o American Feminist Solidarity." In Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics, edited by Lynn Fujiwara and Shireen Roshanravan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018.
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“Performing the Filipina ‘Mail Order Bride’: Queer Neoliberalism, Affective Labor, and Homonationalism.” Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. 23, no. 3 (2013):350-372.
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“El Otro Encuentro: Gigi Oltavaro-Hormillosa’s ‘Neo-Queer Precolonial Imagining.’” Review of Women’s Studies 17, no. 1-2 (2010): 24-46. University of the Philippines at Diliman.
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encyclopedia entries
“Queer Filipina/x/o Americans.” SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies. 2 vols. Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2022.
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