Predoctoral Fellow in Asian and Asian American Studies / Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies / Africana Studies

Beach Hall – Rm 413
Phone / Voice Message System: (347) 766-9083
Email: emily.hue@uconn.edu

UPDATE: AASI 3998 (Section 004) is now offered as WGSS 1104 / Class#15298 “Feminism and the Arts: Asian/Pacific/American Feminisms in an Age of Empire”

Emily Hue is the 2014-2015 University of Connecticut Predoctoral Fellow in Residence for Asian/Asian American Studies Institute, with affiliations in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS), and Africana Studies. She is currently finishing a doctorate in the Program of American Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University.

The Institute and WGSS have teamed up to offer Emily’s Variable Topics course AASI 3998(01) / WGSS 3998(03): Asian/America and Transnational Feminist Inquiry (3 credits) for Spring Semester 2015. The class will meet Wednesdays, 12:20pm – 3:20pm in the Family Studies Building, Room 103.

Her dissertation, currently titled, “Economies of Vulnerability: Humanitarian Imperialism and Performance in the Burmese Diaspora,” is an interdisciplinary project which uses “visual and performance analysis, ethnographic interviews and archival research to explore how diasporic artists and activists from Burma and other postcolonial nations use self-injury to express their vulnerability to various states’ censorship and detainment.”

With emphases in Southeast Asian/American studies, human rights (and humanitarianism), visual culture, and performance studies, Hue’s project intersects with the Institute’s current strengths while filling a particular gap in the field and at UConn (via Burma). Her work likewise builds an important bridge across campus (particularly between the School of Fine Arts and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences). Last, but certainly not least, Hue’s project productively traverses the types of engagements found in the Human Rights Institute, the American Studies Program, and the Asian/Asian American Studies Institute.

Emily has previously worked in the academic publishing industry. She has also participated as an interviewer and organizer in a community podcast series entitled American Alien.  This podcast series connects the lives and practices of Burmese diasporic artists, academics and activists and other cultural producers of color and is hosted by the Flux Factory, a local artist collective space based in Queens, NY.

EMILY HUE SPRING 2015 Course Flyer for AASI 3998 / Course Description and Sample Readings for AASI 3998