Victor Mendoza

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

Victor Román Mendoza holds a joint appointment in Women's and Gender Studies, English, and American Culture.  Victor is also the Acting Director of the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program and faculty associate in 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 monograph, Extimate Attachments: Colonianormativity and the Promise 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 racial, sexual, and gendered intimacies to accord with what was happening in the U.S. imperial exterior. Mendoza has also co-edited with Betsy Huang the fourth volume in a Cambridge University Press series, Asian American Literature in Transition, 1996-2020 (2021).

Victor Mendoza is not accepting new graduate students.