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Suiyi Tang

Ph.D. Student
Suiyi Tang
Pronouns She / Her / Hers Email suiyitan@usc.edu

Biography

Suiyi Tang is a PhD student in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. 

My work considers the aesthetic knowledges of post-1945 Asian American women artists, working explicitly or implicitly with/against the terms of US imperial warfare and democratization. I argue that Asian American feminist aesthetics — spanning sculptural weaving, camouflage, and landscape painting — mediate debates around flesh and materiality, abstraction and computation, contributing to distinctive notions of the racialized human body at historic moments when the integrity of the biological organism and human...

Education

  • BA Williams College, 6/2020
  • MA Cambridge University

  • Research Keywords

    Media philosophy, Aesthetics, Asian Americanist critique, U.S. empire and settler colonialism.

  • Journal Article

    • Tang, S. (2025). Unable to be Titled: Form/lessness, Asian Americanist Critique, and the Destitution of Worlds. Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol. 34 (1)
    • Tang, S. (2025). Lady Trieu, the Matter of Memory, and the Feminist Work of the Surface in Watchmen (2019). Journal of Asian American Studies. Vol. 28 (1)

    Novels

      • More information on the novel + link to excerpts and interviews (The Offing, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Cardiff Review): https://www.legitimizedinprint.com/amsy
        , 2018 – 2020
      • Center for Transpacific Studies, USC, 2021-2022
      • Bell Scholar, Department of Gender Studies, University of Cambridge, 2020-2021
      • Herchel Smith Fellowship, Williams College, 2020-2021
      • Bradford Turner Prize in History, American Studies, Williams College, 2019-2020
      • C3 Fellow, University of Chicago, 2019-2020
      • Kenneth Brown Prize, American Studies, Williams College, 2019-2020

    • Professional Memberships

      • American Comparative Literature Association, 2021 –
      • American Studies Association, 2021 –
      • Asian American Studies Association, 2021 –