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About Christopher Patterson
Christopher B. Patterson is an Assistant Professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia.
NBN Episodes hosted by Christopher:
October 19, 2022
Reckoning with the Interdiscipline
In this episode, we discuss a special issue of The Journal of Asian American Studies: “Reckoning with the Interdiscipline.” This special issue, first …
August 25, 2021
Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021 (Part 4)
This is the last episode of a four-part series featuring the winners and honorable mentions of the 2021 Book Awards for the Association of Asian Ameri…
August 24, 2021
Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021 (Part 3)
This is the third episode of a four-part series featuring the winners and honorable mentions of the 2021 Book Awards for the Association of Asian Amer…
June 1, 2021
Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021 (Part 2)
This is the second episode of a four-part series featuring the winners and honorable mentions of the 2021 Book Awards for the Association of Asian Ame…
May 18, 2021
Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021 (Part 1)
This episode will be the first of a four-part series featuring the winners and honorable mentions of the 2021 Book Awards for the Association of Asian…
April 6, 2021
Roundtable on Asian Migrant Sex Work
This episode features three interviews with organizers and scholars concerned with Asian migrant sex work: SWAN Vancouver (Alison Clancey and Kelly Go…
March 1, 2021
#WeToo Reader
In this inaugural episode, we discuss a unique special issue of The Journal of Asian American Studies: #WeToo, a reader of Art, Poetry, Fiction, and M…
February 9, 2021
The Race Card
This unique episode features a dual/duel interview with two authors whose recent books focus on the overlapping contexts and theories of Game Studies …
August 19, 2019
Unsustainable Empire
In Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood (Duke University Press, 2018), Dean Itsuji Saranillio offers a bold challenge to c…
August 2, 2019
Migrant Futures
In Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times (Duke UP, 2018), Aimee Bahng traces the cultural production of futurity by juxtaposing…
September 10, 2018
A Nation on the Line
Jan M. Padios' new book A Nation on the Line: Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines (Duke University Press, ) sheds light on th…
August 20, 2018
Transpacific Attachments
Lily Wong's Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness (Columbia University Press, 2018) traces the ge…
August 13, 2018
The Labor of Care
Dr. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez's new book, The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age (University of Illinois…
August 8, 2018
Queering Contemporary Asian American Art
Queering Contemporary Asian American Art (University of Washington Press, 2017), Laura Kina and Jan Christian Bernabe gather artists and scholars whos…
May 25, 2018
Soldiering Through Empire
Simeon Man's book Soldiering through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific (University of California Press, 2018) focuses on the rol…
March 26, 2018
Transitive Cultures
Christopher B. Patterson's book Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific (Rutgers University Press, 2018) reads English-language…
February 8, 2018
The Work of Mothering
Harrod Suarez's new book The Work of Mothering: Globalization and the Filipino Diaspora (University of Illinois Press, 2017) focuses on the domestic w…
June 28, 2016
Unsettled
Eric Tang's book, Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the NYC Hyperghetto (Temple University Press, 2015), is an intimate ethnography of a single person,…
March 20, 2015
Pluralist Universalism
Wen Jin's book, Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms (Ohio State Press, 2012), compares histori…
December 28, 2014
Chinese Looks
Sean Metzger's Chinese Looks: Fashion, Performance, Race (Indiana University Press 2014),examines how, in the past 150 years, China was rendered legib…
November 4, 2014
Transpacific Femininities
Denise Cruz's Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina (Duke University Press, 2012) traces representations of Filipinas in litera…
September 22, 2014
Securing Paradise
Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez's Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai'i and the Philippines (Duke University Press, 2013), examines the inte…
July 22, 2014
Beyond the Nation
Martin Joseph Ponce's recently published book, Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading (NYU Press, 2012), traces the roots …
June 16, 2014
Undercover Asian
Leilani Nishime's Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture (University of Illinois Press, 2014) challenges the dominant U.S. cu…