Martin Joseph ("Joe") Ponce is an associate professor of English whose teaching and research interests focus on Asian American, African American, and comparative U.S. ethnic literatures and cultures; queer of color and queer diasporic critique; and histories and theories of U.S. empire. He has served as the (co-)coordinator of the Asian American Studies Program, the Sexuality Studies Program, and the Diversity and Identity Studies Collective (DISCO), as well as a lead co-organizer of the three “Queer Places, Practices, and Lives” conferences at OSU. His current research projects include a queer examination of contemporary Asian American literature’s retrospective critiques of the Asian American movement’s central ideologies; and a queer diasporic analysis of Asian American literature’s critical reckonings with Japanese imperialism and U.S. exceptionalism.

Selected Publications

• Ponce, Martin Joseph. Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading. New York UP, 2012.
• Moddelmog, Debra A., and Martin Joseph Ponce, editors. Samuel Steward and the Pursuit of the Erotic: Sexuality, Literature, Archives. Ohio State UP, 2017.
• Ponce, Martin Joseph. “Between the Heteronormative Model Minority and the Homonormative LGBTQ Subject: Historicizing Contemporary Queer Asian American Literature.” Asian American Literature in Transition, 1996-2020, edited by Betsy Huang and Victor Román Mendoza, Cambridge UP, 2021, pp. 99-117.
• Ponce, Martin Joseph. “Queer Diasporic Crossings and the Persistence of Desire in The Book of Salt.” The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies, edited by Siobhan B. Somerville, Cambridge UP, 2020, 201-14.
• Ponce, Martin Joseph. "Queers Read What Now?" GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 24, no. 2-3, 2018, pp. 315-41.

Curriculum Vitae

Martin Joseph Ponce's CV.pdf