Emily Mitamura is a poet and scholar of gender, race, film, and empire. With commitments to women of color and Third World feminisms, Asian/American expressive culture, and anticolonial thought, their work unpacks afterlives of mass and colonial violence in 1970s Cambodia and its diasporas as a lived terrain negotiated and contested by survivors and kin. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Signs, Cultural Stuidies, Theory & Event, Third World Quarterly, [PANK], and The Margins, among other places.
They received their PhD in political theory working closely with Gender, Women, Sexuality Studies, Asian American Studies, and the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies graduate group at the University of Minnesota. Her academic work has been supported by the Center for Black Brown and Queer Studies, a Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender, Sexuality, Women’s Studies at Bowdoin College, a Shauna M. Stark ’76, P’10 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Brown University’s Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, the Center for Khmer Studies, the Critical Refugee Studies Collective, and other interdisciplinary awards and centers.
They teach courses on Asian American cultural and literary studies, global and women of color feminisms, girlhood, feminist thought, and film.