"A Neglected Queer Play Hidden in Plain Sight: Soon Tek-Oh's Tondemonai—Never Happen! (1970)"

My article "A Neglected Queer Play Hidden in Plain Sight: Soon-Tek Oh's Tondemonai—Never Happen! (1970)" released in Journal of Asian American Studies!

Article here:

https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2025.a967894.

UC Irvine visit

 

Presented "Queering the Color Line within the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Transwar Transpacific" for a Global Studies course at UC Irvine:

"W. E. B. Du Bois fiercely criticized the duplicity of the Cold War Americanization of racial justice, but his sense of liberal pluralism’s earlier rise in the transwar transpacific has been neglected. This is because he has been framed as capitulating to it with his support of the pan-Asianist strategy of Imperial Japan. By turning to what Torsten Weber has called “pan-Asianism from below,” Williams reframes Du Bois beyond this impression. This presentation unpacks elements of his 2022 article in American Studies regarding Du Bois’ engagement with pan-Asianism, his 1928 novel Dark Princess as queer praxis, and his overlooked “color line within a color line” formulation concerning the projected future of global racial capitalism. Williams also considers what Du Bois and the transwar transpacific can tell us about why America is behaving so erratically vis-a-vis China’s rise today."

 

Resurfacing a Queer Play in Homonationalist Times: Soon-Tek Oh’s Tondemonai—Never Happen!

Paper abstract for the 2024 Association for Asian American Studies Conference in Seattle, WA:

"Queering the Color Line within the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Transwar Transpacific"

My article "Queering the Color Line within the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Transwar Transpacific" released in the journal American Studies!  Read the abstract here.

Article here: 

 https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2022.a913747.

Supplementing the Peril–Model Binary with the Yellow–White Peril Binary

Paper abstract for the 2023 Association for Asian American Studies Conference in Long Beach, CA:

Queering the Transpacific: Race and Sexuality across the U.S. and Japanese Empires

Submitted my dissertation to the UW grad school. Here’s the abstract (in English and 日本語):

"Asian Racialization and the Early 20th-Century Queering of Empire"

Paper abstract for the 2020 Association for Asian American Studies Conference in Washington, D.C.
(Conference canceled due to Covid-19 ☹️).

Update: Will present this at the 2021 Association for Asian Studies conference (online) instead!