Transpacific, Undisciplined

Lily Wong is associate professor in the departments of Literature and Critical Race, Gender & Culture Studies at American University. She is author of Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness. Christopher B. Patterson is associate professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia and author of Open World Empire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games. Chien-ting Lin is associate professor in the English Department and the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies graduate program at National Central University in Taiwan.

• Introduction: "Transpacific, Undisciplined: Intimating Current(s)" by Lily Wong, Christopher Patterson, and Chien-ting Lin Part One: Figuring the Pacific1. "'This is Paradise': Transpacific Labor, Indigeneity, and 'Undocumented' in Hawai'i's Hospitality Industry" by Leanne Day2. "Paradoxical Affect: Cross-Strait Intimacy in the Taiwan Teahouse" by I-ting Chen3. "The Art of Emotional Automation: Empathy Machines and Asian 'Victims' in Virtual Reality" by Y-Dang Troeung and Christopher Patterson Part Two: Grafting the Pacific4. "Apprehending Filipino America" by Josen Masangkay Diaz5. "Transpacific Archipelagic Poetics: Connecting Anti-Base Activism in Okinawa with Military Buildup Protests in Guåhan" by Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi6. "Fishers, Captives, and Storytellers in Taiwan's Transnational Fishing Industry" by Tzu-hui Celina Hung Part Three: Unsettling the Pacific7. "Transpacific Feminist Movement: Challenging Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery System" by Kyung Hee Ha8. "Pacific Internationalism: Movements for a Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific" by Simeon Man9. "Transpacific Rupture: Neoliberal Relationalities and Economic Violence in the COVID Era" by Quynh H. Vo

"The editors of Transpacific, Undisciplined invite the community to embrace the difficulty and value of learning to read and be read anew in each particular case study—a mode of "intimate reading" that eschews formulaic interpretive patterns in favor of understanding how dynamics obscured by dominant disciplines can shape even our most intimate relations."