Suiyi Tang

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.

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