About

Heidi Hong is a Ph.D. candidate and Provost Fellow in the department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Her dissertation, tentatively titled A Contaminated Transpacific: Ecological Entanglements in the Afterlives of Empire, tracks ecological collapse as the material legacy of multiple forms of empire, militarism, and global capitalism in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Engaging cultural texts encompassing postcolonial literature, visual art, and film, her research and teaching is situated at the nexus of Transpacific studies, the environmental humanities, and gender and sexuality studies. Her writing has also been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books and Pacific Standard, and is forthcoming in the Asian American Literary Review