Associate Professor; core faculty member, A/PIA Studies Program
About
Victor Román Mendoza (ze/they) holds joint faculty appointments in Women's & Gender Studies and English, and is a core faculty member in A/PIA Studies 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 (Duke University Press 2015; University of Philippines Press 2016) showed how the management of Philippine sexuality was constitutive of imperial-colonial conquest and how the colonization of the Philippines is integral to the history of sexuality in the United States. The monograph was a finalist for the 2017 Philippines National Book Award (History category). Mendoza's second book project, Extimate Attachments: Colonianormativity, Racial Minorities, and the Promise of Imperial Citizenship traces how various racialized subjects living within the U.S. metropolitan center at the turn of the twentieth century reimagined and reshaped their racial, gendered, and sexual intimacies in response to what was happening in the U.S. imperial exterior. Mendoza is also the co-editor, with Betsy Huang, of Asian American Literature in Transition, Vol 4. (Cambridge University Press 2021), winner of a Choice "Outstanding Academic Title" award (2022).
Victor Mendoza is not accepting new graduate students.
Classes Taught
- Multiethnic Literature in the U.S. before Multiculturalism; English 473 (Topics in American
Literature)
- Race, Sex, U.S. Empire: Cultures of U.S. Imperialism; Women’s Studies 435 / English 414 (Advanced Topics in Gender in a Global Context)
- Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Empire in Asian American Cultural Production; Women’s Studies 344/English 314/American Culture 301 (Special topics in Gender, Culture, & Representation)
- Asian American Women Writers; English 315/WS 315, American Culture 311
- Asian American Cultural Production; English 630/American Culture 601 (Graduate Seminar)
- Twentieth Century Writing by U.S. Women Writers of Color; Women’s Studies 293 / American Culture 293
- Feminist Thought; Women’s Studies 330
- Introduction to LGBTQ Studies; Women’s Studies 245
- LGBTQ Studies; Women’s Studies 531 (Graduate Seminar)
- Queer of Color Critique; WS 698 (Graduate Seminar)
- Asian American Literature; English 381/American Culture 324
