We are so excited to welcome @storti.bsky.social .bsky.social(PhD '20) back to UMD to talk about her brand new book Torn (now out with @dukepress.bsky.social ) on 4/22 at 4:00 PM. For full talk info and to RSVP visit http://go.umd.edu/Hapacalypse2026🌈🎓#academicsky #AsianAmericanStudies
“Whether indifferent or idealistic, the reactions that racial satire elicit say as much about the moment, about power—the unfinished project of anti-racism—as they do about the fiction that is a life unburdened by race.”
Anna Storti on “The White Lotus”:
Read the brilliant @storti.bsky.social on S03 of White Lotus @publicbooks.bsky.social immediately www.publicbooks.org/could-i-be-a...
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Through May 14, 2026, use code AAAS26 to save 40% on all books and journal issues when you order on our website or that of our UK partner, MNG. #AsianAmericanStudies buff.ly/UZ5oCIR
“If satire mobilizes critique through emotion, to what extent does the genre fail when the subject is racist fantasy?”
New at PB: @storti.bsky.social revisits the reactions to Frank’s (Sam Rockwell) season 3 monologue about sexual desire in “The White Lotus.”
New at PB: @storti.bsky.social publishes a reflection of racist fantasy in HBO’s “The White Lotus.”
Storti’s book, “Torn: Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence”, is out today with @dukepress.bsky.social !
Cover of Torn, with a performance artist on a white stage with black poles reaching out from her face
Kudos to Ideas on Fire author Anna M. Moncada Storti on the publication of Torn: Asian/White Life and the Intimacy of Violence, out now from @dukepress.bsky.social!
dukeupress.edu/torn
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New at PB: Anna Storti (@storti.bsky.social) revisits “The White Lotus,” and in particular season 3's headline-making scene where Frank, played by Sam Rockwell, delivers a five-minute-long monologue where he asks, "Could I be an Asian girl?"
Cover of Torn: Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence by Anna M. Moncada Storti. The cover is in black and white and features a double exposed photograph of a person holding two thin long tubes up to each eye. The title is written in a black narrow sans serif font vertically above the individual's head. The subtitle is positioned directly below the individual. Below this is the author's name written in all caps in red.
Save 30% on #NewBook "Torn" by @storti.bsky.social, which uncovers the tensions that stem from the unrelenting violence of US imperialism—tensions which mixed race people must actively defuse and alter or risk reifying.
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Cover of Torn: Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence by Anna M. Moncada Storti. The cover is in black and white and features a double exposed photograph of a person holding two thin long tubes up to each eye. The title is written in a black narrow sans serif font vertically above the individual's head. The subtitle is positioned directly below the individual. Below this is the author's name written in all caps in red.
Check out our blog for previews of all the great new books coming from DUP this month, including “Torn” by Anna Storti @storti.bsky.social. buff.ly/vFg3kgR
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March ushers in the start of spring in the Northern Hemisphere—and fresh new titles from Ideas on Fire authors to be enjoyed, no matter where you live. 🌷📚 Here's what we're reading this month: ideasonfire.net/new-books-in...
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I wrote about us immigration’s racist and exclusionary past/present
Racial profiling by immigration agents isn’t new.
It echoes one of the darkest chapters in U.S. history, with clear parallels between today’s targeting of Latino communities and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
@storti.bsky.social writes in @us.theconversation.com, we've seen this before.
"The fiction that undergirds the U.S. immigration system: that immigration policy’s preference for certain immigrants is enough to justify the discriminatory policies which deem some families more valuable than others."
Cover of Torn: Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence by Anna M. Moncada Storti. The cover is in black and white and features a double exposed photograph of a person holding two thin long tubes up to each eye. The title is written in a black narrow sans serif font vertically above the individual's head. The subtitle is positioned directly below the individual. Below this is the author's name written in all caps in red.
In "Torn," @storti.bsky.social uncovers the tensions that stem from the unrelenting violence of US imperialism—tensions which mixed race people must actively defuse and alter or risk reifying. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/0rKMUfa
Cover of Duke University Press catalog. The background features the Puerto Rican flag colors—red, white, and blue. "Duke University Press" is written in yellow and white in the blue triangular section and "Spring and Summer 2026" is in the red and white section on the left. Features an illustration of Bad Bunny wearing a yellow outfit and a large straw hat, holding a microphone with yellow lightning bolts emanating from it is in the lower half. The DUP logo is in the lower right.
Check out our Spring 2026 catalog, featuring titles by @reluctantheologian.bsky.social, @nancyhelicopter.bsky.social, @storti.bsky.social, @emilygdoucet.bsky.social, @iansociologo.bsky.social, @kirisanter.bsky.social, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social, among others! buff.ly/eAbC27z
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Brilliant forthcoming book from my brilliant former advisee! I’m so proud to have been part of the journey that led to this work.
My book, Torn, is available for pre-order 🌪️
If you place an order before Nov 9, you can take advantage of the
@dukepress.bsky.social fall sale (use code FALL25 to get 50% off). Torn drops March 2026!
dukeupress.edu/torn
just got news that my book is officially in production! 'Torn: Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence' coming spring 2026 with Duke University Press🌱
till then, here's a playlist
open.spotify.com/playlist/0Fs...
m🦋 y’all
heading to philly for this symposium on Williams' Keywords at U Penn. I'll be speaking on Imperialism. More info + livestream registration: wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/keywo...
Graphic promoting Panel 1 of Wolf Humanities Center's "Keywords Symposium" on February 21st titled “Imperialism” featuring Mariam Durrani, Professorial Lecturer, Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations, American University; Hafsa Kanjwal, Associate Professor, South Asian History, Lafayette College; and Anna Storti, Assistant Professor, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Duke University with moderator Paniz Musawi Natanzi, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center
Graphic promoting Panel 2 of Wolf Humanities Center's "Keywords Symposium" on February 21st titled “Humanity” featuring Manu Chander, Associate Professor, English, Georgetown University; Gabrielle Cornish, Assistant Professor, Musicology, Mead Witter School of Music, University of Wisconsin; and Steven Weitzman, Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures, Ella Darivoff Director of the Katz Center of Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania with moderator: Jacob Myers, Doctoral Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center; Ph.D. Candidate, English, University of Pennsylvania
Graphic promoting Panel 3 of Wolf Humanities Center's "Keywords Symposium" on February 21st titled “Aesthetics” featuring Sa'ed Atshan, Associate Professor, Peace and Conflict Studies and Anthropology, Swarthmore University; Sonal Khullar, W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies, Art History, University of Pennsylvania; and Stephanie Langin-Hooper, Associate Professor, Art History, Karl Kilinski II Endowed Chair in Hellenic Visual Culture, Southern Methodist University with moderator Jeremy Steinberg, Doctoral Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center; Ph.D. Candidate, English, University of Pennsylvania
Graphic promoting the keynote lecture of Wolf Humanities Center's "Keywords Symposium" on February 21st titled “Redefining the Political: Persianate Sociability and its States” by Mana Kia, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University with moderator Maryam Athari, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center
As we gear up to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Raymond Williams’ book "“Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society,” scholars from the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts gather on 2/21 for the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2024–2025 interdisciplinary symposium “Keywords.”
first piece of good news in a long time
Dark, slightly unnerving image of a forest with text that reads: The Long COVID Game. This is a facilitator’s guide for The Long COVID Game, an instructional game on the increasing risks of contracting Long COVID with repeated infections.
The Long Covid Game -- Love this.
For folks engaging with large groups who want to teach about the importance of masking and the risk of getting LongCovid, this is an excellent game you can play and use as a teaching tool.
www.helloworlds.ca/the-long-cov...
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Job: Postdoc in 'Feminism and the Culture Wars' at Duke University
Apps due 1/15. Please apply and circulate widely. I’m leading this search and happy to answer questions
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29141
thank you mooncat for this playlist
open.spotify.com/playlist/7xq...
Queer & Trans Studies Cultural Studies Starter Pack. This one was a bit tricky and there’s lots of room left in here still. LMK who I’m missing —was looking to build a list of queer & trans cultural studies (and adjacent) folks mostly, as I haven’t seen on of thede on here yet.
go.bsky.app/6tcCTzg