Martin Joseph Ponce

 

Martin Ponce's research and teaching interests focus on Asian American, African American and comparative U.S. ethnic literatures; histories and theories of U.S. imperialism, nationalism and diaspora; and queer of color/queer diasporic critique. Author of Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading (New York University Press, 2012) and co-editor of Samuel Steward and the Pursuit of the Erotic: Sexuality, Literature, Archives (Ohio State University Press, 2017), Ponce is currently working on several projects within the fields of Asian American literary history, queer of color literary history and Afro-Asian studies.

Committed to creating and maintaining institutional spaces for intellectual exchange and engagement, he served as the (co-)coordinator of the Asian American Studies Program for seven years and have served as the coordinator for the Sexuality Studies Program since 2015. Ponce was also one of the co-founders and organizers of the Diversity and Identity Studies Collective (DISCO), a cross-disciplinary formation that seeks to bring together students, faculty and staff working in ethnic studies, gender and sexuality studies and disability studies to address topical issues of broad social significance.