Lyko Day is Elizabeth C. Small Professor and Chair of English, and affiliated faculty in the Department of Critical Race and Political Economy at MountHolyoke College. Day is the author of Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism (Duke University Press, 2016) and her essays have appearedin American Quarterly, Amerasia, Monthly Review, and PMLA. She coedited the special issue “Solidarities of Nonalignment: Abolition, Decolonization, and Anticapitalism” for Critical Ethnic Studies and has edited forums in Verge: Studies in Global Asias and Society and Space. Her second book project focuses on racial capitalism and the nuclear unconscious, and she is co-editing the special issue “Palestine After Analogy” with Nasser Abourahme for Critical Ethnic Studies.

Davorn Sisavath is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching focus on U.S. militarism, science, technology and warfare, environmental pollution, and Southeast Asian and Asian American histories. She is currently working on a book manuscript that examines metallic violence in postwar spaces, including Laos, Irag, and the US. Using both exploratory and explanatory research designs, she explains what emerges after war and how the impact of warhas been shown to linger in different forms. Her writing has appeared in Radical History Review,Journal of Transnational American Studies, Anthropological Quarterly, and Critical Ethnic Studies.

Michelle N. Huang is AssistantProfessor of English and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. She has research and teaching interests in contemporary Asian American literature, posthumanism, and feminist science studies. Her current project, MolecularRace, examines posthumanist aesthetics in post-1965 Asian American literature to trace racial representation and epistemology at nonhuman, minute scales. Her work appears in American Literature, Journal of Asian American Studies, Amerasia, and Post 45: Contemporaries, among other venues. Her film essay, INHUMAN FIGURES: Robots, Clones, and Aliens can be viewed online at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center website.

Erin Suzuki is Associate Professor of Literature at UC San Diego. Her research interests are in Asian American literature, Pacific Island literatures, 20th and 21st century American literature, and transpacific studies. Her book, Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures (Temple University Press) analyzes the ways that Asian American and Indigenous Pacific subjectivities have been constructed against and alongside one another in the wake of the colonial conflicts that have shaped the modern transpacific.

Moderated by Dr. Jane Hu

FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 3:00PM
USC Kaprielian Hall (KAP 445)

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