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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 personhood were being radically revised by the industrial technologies of US militarism.

Elsewhere I write fiction; my work has been recognized by Best American Short Stories (honorable mention), Best of the Net, Black Warrior Review, and Fiction Collective 2.

Prior to USC, I graduated magna cum laude from Williams College and holds an MPhil in Gender Studies from the University of Cambridge, where I was also the Bell Scholar.

Education

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

  • Research Keywords

    U.S. empire and settler colonialism, U.S. cultural history, Asian American literature and history, history of gender and sexuality.

  • Conference Presentations

    • American Comparative Literature Association, National Taiwan University , 5/2022
    • Asian American Studies Association Conference , 4/2022
    • UCLA Graduate Political Theory Conference , 4/2021
    • UChicago Mellon Mayes Summer Conference , 8/2019
    • American Comparative Literature Association, Georgetown University , 4/2019
    • Heterotopic Junction Conference, Hong Kong Baptist University , 2/2019
    • Thinking Its Presence, University of Arizona Tucson , 4/2017

    Other Presentations

    • Q&A with Suiyi Tang, author of American Symphony: Other White Lies, Interview, , 2019-CONT
    • Talk with Suiyi Tang, author of American Symphony: Other White Lies, Talk, , 2019-2020
    • Center for Transpacific Studies, USC,
    • Bell Scholar, Department of Gender Studies, University of Cambridge,
    • Herchel Smith Fellowship, Williams College,
    • Bradford Turner Prize in History, American Studies, Williams College,
    • C3 Fellow, University of Chicago,
    • Kenneth Brown Prize, American Studies, Williams College,

  • Professional Memberships

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