Please join us for our upcoming roundtable on New Books in Asian American Theatre and Performance Studies this Friday, May 8th from 4:30-5:30pm Eastern (1:30-2:30pm Pacific). We will spotlight:
Performing Vulnerability: Risking Art and Life in the Burmese Diaspora by Emily L. Hue
Spoiled: Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair by Summer Kim Lee
Unsettling Acts: Performing Transnational Adoption by Jieun Lee
Register for the roundtable to receive the Zoom link shortly before the event.
Learn more about our authors below:
Emily Hue is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and core faculty in Southeast Asian Text, Ritual, Performance (SEATRiP). Her research and teaching are in the fields of Asian American Studies, feminist studies, and performance, and more recently, in new materialisms and sustainable design. Her first book Performing Vulnerability: Risking Art and Life in the Burmese Diaspora (University of Washington Press, 2025) uses visual and performance analysis to explore how Southeast Asian diasporic artists use, in some cases, self-injury, to express their vulnerability to challenges of military rule as well as resettlement. You can find her most recent writing in the Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, AmericanStudies Quarterly, Amerasia, and the Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives.
Summer Kim Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at UCLA. She specializes in feminist theory, queer theory, performance studies, critical race and ethnic studies, and Asian Americanart, literature, and culture. She is the author of Spoiled: Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair (Duke University Press, 2025). Some of her published work can be found in ASAP/Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, Post45, Social Text, and Women & Performance.
Jieun Lee is an Associate Professor of Theater Studies at Emory University. She is the author of Unsettling Acts: Performing Transnational Adoption published in 2025 by the Ohio State University Press. Her research and teaching focus on Asian American and Korean diaspora theater and performance. Jieun is currently working on an anthology of contemporary dramas written and performed by Korean American adoptees.
This event is organized through ATDS’ Anti-Racist Initiative, led by Donatella Galella and Janet Werther.