Overview
Anna M. Moncada Storti is a writer and teacher of feminist theory, queer of color critique, and Asian American Studies. An interdisciplinary scholar, Storti explores the aesthetic and affective relations between race, empire, violence, and pleasure, specializing in art and culture across the Asian diaspora.
Her first book, Torn: Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence, is under contract with Duke University Press. She is also at work on a second book, which spotlights the practice and cultures of vice. You can find her writing 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. Her work has been supported by the McNair Scholars Program, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Institute for Citizens and Scholars.
Born in Anaheim, CA, in a family of Filipina and Italian immigrants, she was educated at Cal Poly Pomona. Entering college as a Civil Engineering major, she graduated with degrees in Gender, Ethnicity, and Multicultural Studies and Business Management. 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.