Anna Storti

Anna M. Moncada Storti is a writer, professor, and interdisciplinary scholar of feminist theory, queer of color critique, and Asian American Studies. Her work explores desire, risk, and everyday life within structures of power and endangerment, from US imperialism and colonization to racial capitalism and climate disaster.

She is the author of Torn: Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence (Duke University Press, 2026). She is currently at work on a book about the cultural politics of vice. Her research has been supported by the McNair Scholars Program, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Institute for Citizens and Scholars.

Storti has been published in a variety of venues. Her academic writing can be found in Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Feminist Studies, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, and elsewhere. Public-facing work appears in Public Books, The Conversation, Reappropriate: Asian American feminism, politics, and pop culture, and her poetry is published with Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal. 

Prior to joining Duke, she was the Guarini Dean's Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian American Studies at Dartmouth College, and she holds a PhD in Women's Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park.