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:

Reckoning with the Interdiscipline, Journal of Asian American Studies 25:2 (June 2022)

October 19, 2022

Reckoning with the Interdiscipline

Lily Anne Welty Tamai and Paul Spickard

In this episode, we discuss a special issue of The Journal of Asian American Studies: “Reckoning with the Interdiscipline.” This special issue, first …

AAAS Book Awards Part 4: Kandice Chuh’s "The Difference Aesthetics Makes"

August 25, 2021

Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021 (Part 4)

Kandice Chuh

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…

Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021: Xuan Juliana Wang and Ricco Villanueva Siasoco

August 24, 2021

Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021 (Part 3)

Xuan Juliana Wang and Ricco Villanueva Siasoco

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…

Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021: Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley and Jan-Henry Gray

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…

Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021: Jian Neo Chen and Quynh Nhu Le

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…

Roundtable on Asian Migrant Sex Work

April 6, 2021

Roundtable on Asian Migrant Sex Work

Alison Clancey, Kelly Go, Lily Wong, and Yuri Doolan

This episode features three interviews with organizers and scholars concerned with Asian migrant sex work: SWAN Vancouver (Alison Clancey and Kelly Go…

erin Khuê Ninh, "#WeToo Reader" (JAAS, 2021)

March 1, 2021

#WeToo Reader

erin Khuê Ninh and Shireen Roshanravan

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…

Tara Fickle, "The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities" (NYU Press, 2019)

February 9, 2021

The Race Card

Tara Fickle

This unique episode features a dual/duel interview with two authors whose recent books focus on the overlapping contexts and theories of Game Studies …

Dean Itsuji Saranillio, "Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood" (Duke UP, 2018)

August 19, 2019

Unsustainable Empire

Dean Itsuji Saranillio

In Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood (Duke University Press, 2018), Dean Itsuji Saranillio offers a bold challenge to c…

Aimee Bahng, "Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times" (Duke UP, 2018)

August 2, 2019

Migrant Futures

Aimee Bahng

In Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times (Duke UP, 2018), Aimee Bahng traces the cultural production of futurity by juxtaposing…

Jan M. Padios, "A Nation on the Line: Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines" (Duke UP, 2018)

September 10, 2018

A Nation on the Line

Jan M. Padios

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…

Lily Wong, "Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness" (Columbia UP, 2018)

August 20, 2018

Transpacific Attachments

Lily Wong

Lily Wong's Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness (Columbia University Press, 2018) traces the ge…

Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, "The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age" (U Illinois Press, 2018)

August 13, 2018

The Labor of Care

Valerie Francisco-Menchavez

Dr. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez's new book, The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age (University of Illinois…

Laura Kina and Jan Christian Bernabe, "Queering Contemporary Asian American Art" (U Washington Press, 2017)

August 8, 2018

Queering Contemporary Asian American Art

Laura Kina and Jan Christian Bernabe, eds.

Queering Contemporary Asian American Art (University of Washington Press, 2017), Laura Kina and Jan Christian Bernabe gather artists and scholars whos…

Simeon Man, “Soldiering through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific” (U California Press, 2018)

May 25, 2018

Soldiering Through Empire

Simeon Man

Simeon Man's book Soldiering through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific (University of California Press, 2018) focuses on the rol…

Christopher B. Patterson, "Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific" (Rutgers UP, 2018)

March 26, 2018

Transitive Cultures

Christopher B. Patterson

Christopher B. Patterson's book Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific (Rutgers University Press, 2018) reads English-language…

Harrod Suarez, "The Work of Mothering: Globalization and the Filipino Diaspora" (U Illinois Press, 2017)

February 8, 2018

The Work of Mothering

Harrod Suarez

Harrod Suarez's new book The Work of Mothering: Globalization and the Filipino Diaspora (University of Illinois Press, 2017) focuses on the domestic w…

Eric Tang, "Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the NYC Hyperghetto" (Temple UP, 2015)

June 28, 2016

Unsettled

Eric Tang

Eric Tang's book, Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the NYC Hyperghetto (Temple University Press, 2015), is an intimate ethnography of a single person,…

Wen Jin, "Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms" (Ohio State UP, 2012)

March 20, 2015

Pluralist Universalism

Wen Jin

Wen Jin's book, Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms (Ohio State Press, 2012), compares histori…

Sean Metzger, "Chinese Looks: Fashion, Performance, Race" (Indiana UP, 2014)

December 28, 2014

Chinese Looks

Sean Metzger

Sean Metzger's Chinese Looks: Fashion, Performance, Race (Indiana University Press 2014),examines how, in the past 150 years, China was rendered legib…

Denise Cruz, "Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina" (Duke UP, 2012)

November 4, 2014

Transpacific Femininities

Denise Cruz

Denise Cruz's Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina (Duke University Press, 2012) traces representations of Filipinas in litera…

Vernadette V. Gonzalez, "Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai'i and the Philippines" (Duke UP, 2013)

September 22, 2014

Securing Paradise

Vernadette V. Gonzalez

Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez's Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai'i and the Philippines (Duke University Press, 2013), examines the inte…

Martin Joseph Ponce, "Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading" (NYU Press, 2012)

July 22, 2014

Beyond the Nation

Martin Joseph Ponce

Martin Joseph Ponce's recently published book, Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading (NYU Press, 2012), traces the roots …

Leilani Nishime, "Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2014)

June 16, 2014

Undercover Asian

Leilani Nishime

Leilani Nishime's Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture (University of Illinois Press, 2014) challenges the dominant U.S. cu…