Malissa Phung
Professor, School of Communication & Literary Studies, Sheridan College, Ontario, Canada
Toronto, Canada
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Malissa Phung is honoured and privileged to live and work as an uninvited guest on the territories of the Huron-Wendat, Mississauga, Haudenosaunee, and Anishinaabe peoples. She is a second-generation settler descendant of Sino-Vietnamese refugees who have resettled on the territories of the Néhiyawk (Cree), Dene, Niitsitapi (Blackfoot), Métis, Nakoda (Stoney), and Anishinaabe (Ojibway/Saulteaux). She is a full-time teaching stream professor in the School of Communication and Literary Studies at Sheridan College (Ontario, Canada), where she teaches Communications, Composition & Rhetoric, Life Writing, Popular Literature and Culture, and Cultural Studies. Her scholarship develops a transnational and comparative approach to the study of Asian North American Literature that draws on theoretical analytics of Diaspora, Postcolonial, Critical Race, and Indigenous Studies. Her current manuscripts in progress include a new life narrative "[excerpts from fleeing catastrophe]" and two academic book projects: 1) Memorializing Chinese Exclusion: The Racial Capitalist and Settler Politics of Commemorating Chinese Labour in Canada; and 2) Making Kinship: Remembering and Honouring Relations of Indebtedness in Indigenous and Asian North American Literature.
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Resistance & Resurgence from the Archival Margins: Asians Discuss SWANA Art, Solidarity, and...
Informed by a transnational, transimperial nexus of Indigenous, refugee, and diasporic relationalities, this panel works together to advance an ethic of SWANA solidarity that centers, advocates, and actively participates in securing the liberation and futurity of SWANA subjects, lands, and peoples that have heretofore been Othered and excluded in many historical and political contexts besides Asian American studies. Each scholar’s literary, cultural, and state archives traces the afterlife of multiple waves of imperial war and colonization across SWANA through diverse genres of writing and multimedia forms: such as the 2005 Iraqi Constitution and the Kurdish Constitution Writing Committee; an Iranian-Kurdish refugee’s experimental prison life narrative and an Afghan artist’s art performance that attempts to return 20 tons of military waste from Afghanistan to America; a Singaporean dissident surgeon’s memoir and field surgical manual written in the aftermath of massacres in the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon juxtaposed against Singapore’s role in the American and Israeli military industrial complex; and the traditional fibre art of Palestinian embroidery. Together, this panel of scholars juxtaposes Indigenous, refugee, diasporic, and marginalized Asian perspectives, memories, bodies, creative praxes, and knowledges to counter their erasure and complicity in imperial and colonial discourses and knowledge formations within a global context.
Malissa Phung
Professor, School of Communication & Literary Studies, Sheridan College, Ontario, Canada
Toronto, Canada
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