Aimee Bahng

Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies; Coordinator for American Studies; Coordinator of Gender and Women's Studies
With Pomona Since: 2017
  • Expertise

    Expertise

    Aimee Bahng is author of (Duke University Press, 2018) and co-editor of the special issue of Journal of Asian American Studies (2017). She has published articles on transnational Asian/American speculative fiction and financialization in Journal of American Studies (2015), (Rutgers University Press, 2015), and MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the U.S. (2008).

    Her second book project, Transpacific Ecologies, is currently underway, bringing decolonial, queer and feminist thought to bear on the environment, knowledge production, and dis/ability at the site of the Pacific Ocean, which has long served as a proving ground for scientific experimentation and biopolitical securitization.

    Bahng is also writing a number of articles about science fiction writer Octavia Butler, whose papers are held at the Huntington Library in San Marino. One essay, titled 鈥淧lasmodial Improprieties: Octavia E. Butler, Slime Molds, and Imagining a Femi-Queer Commons,鈥 appears in the (University of Washington Press, 2017). Bahng has also published an article co-authored by Reena Goldthree in Radical Teacher on 鈥#BlackLivesMatter and Feminist Pedagogy.鈥

    Recipient of a Mellon New Directions Fellowship, she was also honored in 2020 with Pomona's Wig Distinguished Professor Award. Dedicated to collaborative intellectual production, Bahng is the recipient of innovative research and teaching fellowships from the Five College Women鈥檚 Studies Research Center, EnviroLab Asia, Dartmouth College, and the University of California Humanities Research Institute.

  • Work

    Work

    Books

    Transpacific Ecologies (in progress).

    Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times, Duke University Press, forthcoming March 2018.

    Articles

    鈥淧lasmodial Improprieties: Octavia E. Butler, Slime Molds, and Imagining a Femi-Queer

    Commons,鈥 in The Queer Feminist Science Studies Reader (Seattle: UW Press, 2017): 310-26.

    鈥淭ranspacific Overtures: An Introduction,鈥 Journal of Asian American Studies: Transpacific

    Futurities 20:1, special issue, eds. Aimee Bahng and Christine Mok (February 2017): 1-9.

    鈥#BlackLivesMatter and Feminist Pedagogy: Teaching a Movement Unfolding,鈥 with Reena

    Goldthree, in Radical Teacher: Teaching Black Lives Matter, eds. Christopher Kennedy, Robyn Spencer, and Paula Austin, v. 101 (Fall 2016): 20-26.

    鈥淪pecters of the Pacific: Salt Fish Drag and Atomic Hauntologies in the Era of Genetic

    惭辞诲颈蹿颈肠补迟颈辞苍,鈥 Journal of American Studies: Fictions of Speculation 49:4, eds. Hamilton Carroll

    and Annie McClanahan (Fall 2015): 663鈥83.

    鈥淭he Cruel Optimism of Asian Futurity and Reparative Practices in Sonny Liew鈥檚 Malinky Robot,鈥

    in Techno-Orientalism, eds. Betsy Huang, Greta Niu, and David Roh (New Brunswick, NJ:

    Rutgers University Press, 2015), 163鈥79.

    鈥淓xtrapolating Transnational Arcs, Excavating Imperial Legacies: The Speculative Acts of Karen Tei Yamashita鈥檚 Through the Arc of the Rain Forest,鈥 MELUS: Alien/Asian 33:4, ed. Stephen H.

    Sohn (Winter 2008): 123鈥44.

    鈥淨ueering The Matrix: Hacking the Digital Divide and Slashing into the Future,鈥 Critical Studies:

    The Matrix in Theory, special issue 29, eds. Myriam Diocaretz and Stefan Herbrechter

    (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006), 167鈥192.

  • Education

    Education

    Ph.D. University of California, San Diego

    CPhil University of California, San Diego

    M.A. Middlebury College, Bread Loaf School of English

    A.B. Princeton University (cum laude)

    Certificate in Women鈥檚 Studies; Concentration in African-American Studies

    Recent Courses Taught

    GWS 026: Intro to Gender and Women鈥檚 Studies

    GWS 162: Gender and Sexuality in Asian/America

    GWS 170: Disability Studies

    GWS 172: Race, Gender, and the Environment

    GWS 180: Queer Feminist Theories