Expertise

Cynthia Wu’s work focuses on how racialized masculinities are produced through investments in physical or psychosocial difference, queerness, and non-normative affiliations.

Currently, she is at work on two book projects—one on the U.S. military in the Asian American imagination and the other on the racial logics of copper as raw material, commodity, currency, element, toxin, symbol, object, and thing.

 


Research Interests

  • Asian American and comparative ethnic studies; disability studies; gender and sexuality studies
Affiliations

Associate Professor, American Studies Program, Transnational Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo

Affiliated Faculty, Asian Studies Program, College of Arts and Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo

Affiliate Faculty, Global Gender Studies, Transnational Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo

Associate Professor, Department of Gender Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Asian American Studies Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Department of American Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Past Affiliations

Assistant Professor, American Studies Program, Transnational Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo (past)

Assistant Professor, Asian Studies Program, College of Arts and Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo (past)

Communities
Women's Studies, Asian Studies, North American Studies, Gender Studies, International Studies
Degrees
PhD, University of Michigan, American Culture, 2004
MA, University of Michigan, English, 1997
AB, Bryn Mawr College, English and Feminist, 1995