Biography

Joshua Luo (he/him/his) is a first-generation Han Chinese immigrant who is currently a second-year MA student in Asian American Studies at UCLA. His research interests include science and technology studies (STS), surveillance studies, affect theory, and settler-colonial studies, especially the intersection of Sinophone/Chinese and Uyghur diaspora, literature, and culture in North America, with a particular emphasis on the possibility of decolonial and anti-imperial solidarity against multiple empires in the context of escalating US-China tensions.