Victor Mendoza

Scholarly Interests: queer and trans of color critique, queer studies, critical race theory, transnational feminist and gender studies, postcolonial studies, cultures of U.S. imperialism, Asian American literature and culture, multiethnic American literature and culture, visual cultures, modernisms

Victor Román Mendoza holds a joint appointment in Women's and Gender Studies and English.  Victor is also a faculty associate in the Department of American Culture, the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program, and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Mendoza's first book, Metroimperial Intimacies: Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the Philippines in U.S. Imperialism, 1899-1913, was published by Duke University Press (2015), in the "Perverse Modernities" Series, edited by Lisa Lowe and J. Halberstam. The monograph is also one of ten books selected for inclusion in a pilot project by Knowledge Unlatched (knowledgeunlatched.org), a global library consortium providing open access to academic titles, and has been reprinted by the University of Philippines Press (2016). Metroimperial Intimacies was a finalist for the National Book Award in the Philippines (2017). Mendoza's second book project, Extimate Attachments: Colonianormativity, Racial Minorities, and the Future of Imperial Citizenship traces how varied racial minorities living within the U.S. metropolitan center at the turn of the twentieth century reimagined and reshaped their intimacies to accord with what was happening in the U.S. imperial exterior. Mendoza is also co-editing with Betsy Huang the fourth volume in a forthcoming Cambridge University Press series, Asian American Literature in Transition (general editors Min Song and Rajini Srikanth).