Invited Book Talks
2026
“Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America” | American Cultures Colloquium, Northwestern University, May 7, 2026.
“Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America” | The Roosevelt House and Asian American Studies, CUNY Hunter College, April 22, 2026.
“Camp and Care: Performing Queer Asian America” | Annual Symposium of the School of Theatre, Drama, and Performance Studies, University of Maryland, March 6, 2026.
2025
“Getting to the Bottom of Camp: The Queer Taint of Japanese American Incarceration” | Pembroke Center, Brown University, December 11, 2025.
“Race & Risk x: Extravagant Camp: Book Talk with Roberta Wolfson” | Circle for Asian American Literary Studies (CAALS), November 14, 2025.
“Getting to the Bottom of Camp: On the Queer Methods and Asian American Aesthetic Inquiry” | CUNY Graduate Center, October 24, 2025.
“Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America” | Claremont Colleges, May 1, 2025.
“Extravagant Camp: Getting to the Bottom of the Japanese American Incarceration” | University of California, Santa Barbara, April 28, 2025.
“Extravagant Camp: Getting to the Bottom of the Japanese American Incarceration” | Boston University, April 18, 2025.
“Getting to the Bottom of Camp: On Queer Methods and Asian American Aesthetics” | ASE Creativity, Theory, Politics Research Center, University of Southern California, April 11, 2025.
“Getting to the Bottom of Camp: The Queer Taint of Japanese American Incarceration” | Department of Asian American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 11, 2025.
“Sexual Cultures at 25: Staging Queer Critiques of Empire” ASA 2025 (left to right): Tavia Nyong’o, Eng-Beng Lim, Robert Reid-Pharr, Sarah Ensor, Chris A. Eng, Juana María Rodríguez, Ann Pellegrini.
Conference Presentations
2026
“Amid the Ruins of Whiteness: Regarding a Queer Approach to (Inter-)Dependence” | Association for Asian American Studies National Conference, Honolulu, HI, April 3, 2026.
“The Promise and Peril of Trans-of-color Utopias,” Modern Language Association, Toronto, Canada, January 2026.
2025
“Sexual Cultures at 25: Staging Queer Critiques of Empire” (Roundtable Participant & Organizer)| American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 2025.
“Take It, Bake It, Fake It: The Drag of Manila Luzon’s Asiatic Designs” | Association for Theatre in Higher Education National Conference, Virtual, July 2025.
“The Queer Reorientations of Chris A. Eng’s Extravagant Camp” (Respondent) | Association for Asian American Studies, Boston, MA, April 2025.
2024
“Disengage!: Toward an Ungrounded Asian/American Aesthetics” | American Studies Association, Baltimore, MD, November 2024.
“Framing Straight White Men” | Association for Study of the Arts of the Present, New York, NY, Oct 2024.
“Stuck in the Groove of Contributionism: The Hidden Track of Queer Diaspora in Oscar Campomanes’s ‘New Formations of Asian American Studies’” | Association for Asian American Studies, Seattle, WA April 2024.
“Theorizing the ‘Laughcry’ in Asian American Literature” | Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, January 2024 (Organizer & Respondent)
2023
“The Lonely Dramas of Asian-Pessimism: Publicizing Yellow Folk as Unlovable” | American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, November 2023.
“Reading Asian American Literature, Then and Now: Necessity and Extravagance at 30” | Association for Asian American Studies, Long Beach, CA, April 2023 (Organizer & Chair).
“Beyond Silos: The Futures of Ethnic Literatures” (Roundtable Participant) | Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, January 2023.
“The Queer Reorientations of Chris A. Eng’s Extravagant Camp” AAAS 2025 (left to right): Joshua Chambers-Letson, Christine Mok, Chris A. Eng, Summer Kim Lee, Kareem Khubchandani, Andrew Way Leong, Douglas Ishii, Vinh Nguyen.