Wen Liu
As an interdisciplinary scholar based in Critical Psychology and Feminist Studies, Wen has focused her research on the engagement between global social movements and psychological theories on racial, gender, and sexual subjectivities, particularly at the intersection of LGBTQ and diasporic Asian American experiences. Informed by feminist psychology, queer theory, critical race theory, and postcolonial studies, Wen investigates how psychological discourses have shaped global politics—from issues of LGBTQ identities and marriage equality to US police violence and militarism, from cultural imperialism to Orientalism—but also, in turn, how activist subjectivities that emerged from these sociopolitical events have transformed psychological knowledge around migration, culture, and identity.
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Supervisors: Michelle Fine and Sunil Bhatia
http://www.wenliu.info/
Supervisors: Michelle Fine and Sunil Bhatia
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10:30-12:30pm Stern 301
Organizers:
Michelle H. S. Ho, Stony Brook University
Jahyon Park, Cornell University
Discussant: Chris Eng, Syracuse University
In what ways do discourses of affect, queer, and gender shape the day-to-day lives of Asian people across and beyond different cultural and geographical borders? How do various forms of media, broadly conceived, demarcate the ways we encounter gendered and queer Asian bodies within transnational circuits of consumption? This panel animates this discussion by looking at the flows of gendered and sexual bodies, practices, and subjectivities traversing East Asia and Asian America through an affective lens. Collectively, all four presentations explore the queer, gendered, and emotional production, circulation, and consumption of perverse bodies, objects of desire, and intimate resonances in Japan, South Korea, and Asian America through ethnography and media representation.
Becoming Grievable Subjects: Narratives of Queer Asian American Melancholia
Wen Liu
University at Albany, SUNY
"Affective Genderplay: Contemporary Josō (Male-to-Female Crossdressing) Culture in Tokyo"
Michelle H. S. Ho
Stony Brook University
"Male Solidarity as a Melodramatic Response to the Korean Webtoon Misaeng"
Jahyon Park
Cornell University
“Cry Me a Pleasure”: East Asian Copulatory Vocalizations in Theory and Ethnography
Aljosa Puzar
University of Ljubljana