Tiffany Lytle
Doctoral Candiate, UCSB Theater, Dance and Performance Studies
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Tiffany Lytle is a performing artist and scholar whose work engages with transgenerational memory, cultural identity, and multiraciality in the Cambodian American diaspora. She is an alumnus of UCLA’s Asian American Studies Master of Arts program, and UCLA's Southeast Asian Studies Bachelor of Arts program. Tiffany is currently a PhD candidate of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies at UC Santa Barbara, where she also teaches in the Asian American Studies department.
Tiffany grew up performing Cambodian classical dance in Long Beach, CA and served as a dancer in the Los Angeles-based dance company KPA Fusion Dance Repertoire. In 2018, she and her team of dancers and musicians performed in Refugee Re/Enactments as part of UCLA's Campus as Canvas Arts Initiative, then in "Qnoum Kaun Khmer/ I AM a Cambodian Child" which premiered at Highways Performance Space. In 2019 Tiffany became a Critical Refugee Studies Collective grantee, completing her 2020 single "Justice" which reckons with global responses to the Cambodian genocide. Her album Cambodian Child is available on iTunes, Spotify, and all music streaming platforms.
Lytle’s essay entitled “Cambodian Classical Dance: Authenticity, Affect, and Exclusion” is published in a collection by University of Hawaii Press entitled California Dreaming: Movement and Place in the Asian American Imaginary (2020). You will also find her piece “Is My Body My Own?” in Dance Studies Association’s 2022 issue of Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies.
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“Future Directions in Cambodian American and Cambodian Diaspora Studies: A Collective Dialogue”
Drawing inspiration from layered histories in Long Beach, this roundtable engages the relationships between personal and public, national and transnational, and social, cultural, and political, to query and expand the field formation of Cambodian American and Cambodian Diaspora Studies. Challenging a Western historiography of “tragedy” and liberal humanitarian discourses of trauma which disavow the complex humanity of Cambodian subjects and the continually intersubjective ways in which knowledge about Cambodia is produced and reproduced, we come together in dialogue as junior scholars in various stages and engagements with public and community organizations. Aligned with what Yến Lê Espiritu articulates as “an interdisciplinary field of critical refugee study, which conceptualizes ‘the refugee’ not as an object of investigation but rather as a paradigm ‘whose function [is] to establish and make intelligible a wider set of problems,’” and following Eve Tuck’s critique of “damage-centered research,” we contribute to the epistemological and methodological shift Ngô, Nguyen, and Lam articulate in the introduction to the 2012 issue of Positions dedicated to Southeast Asian American Studies: “mov[ing] from the historical to the historiographic, from the anthropological to the ethnographic, and from past frictions to lingering fictions.”
Coming from diverse areas of study including American, Asian and Asian American Studies, Gender Studies, Theater and Dance, Urban Planning and Ethnomusicology, each participant will situate themselves in relation to the collective intellectual and sociocultural work of the roundtable participants and audience members, collaboratively mapping the past, present, and speculative possibilities of Cambodian American and Cambodian Diaspora Studies.
Tiffany Lytle
Doctoral Candiate, UCSB Theater, Dance and Performance Studies
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