Graduate Student Research in Asian/American Studies: Poetry, Art, Novels

The cover of Elaine Castillo's America is Not the Heart, Seong Moy's Inscription of T'Chao Pae II, and the cover of Refaat Alareer's If I Must Die
Fri, April 24, 2026
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
311 Denney Hall

The Asian American Studies Program is pleased to feature the work of three graduate students, two of whom will be completing their PhDs this semester. The speakers will share their research on Palestinian poetry, Asian American visual art and queer Asian American literature.

  • Sara Abou Rashed, “Contemporary Palestinian Poetry: Genre Resistance and Poetics Amidst Genocide”
  • Asia Adomanis, “(In)scrutable Aesthetics and the Abstraction of Race in Seong Moy’s Inscription of T’Chao Pae II (1952)”
  • Julianna Crame, “The Empire Within: Asian American Queer Reimaginings of U.S. Imperialism”

 

This event is free, open to the public and welcoming to everyone.

Light refreshments will be served.

 

Co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies Program, the Center for Ethnic Studies and the Humanities Institute.