Workshop by Dr. Tina Chen - "Reimagining Publishing and Scholarly Praxis: An Alien Forms Workshop"

Join Approaching Global Asias for an exciting workshop by Dr. Tina Chen entitled "Reimagining Publishing and Scholarly Praxis: An Alien Forms Workshop" on Friday, September 25! This event is hybrid. Lunch will be provided at the in person session.

Tina Chen is interested in speculative fictions, the imaginable ageography of Global Asias, and the genres of academic labor. She was initially trained as an Asian Americanist but over the last decade, her work has focused on exploring the possibilities and limits of theorizing “Global Asias” as an epistemology and method that simultaneously recognizes and challenges the distinctions separating area studies and diaspora studies. As the founding editor of Verge: Studies in Global Asias, an award-winning journal that brings Asian studies, Asian American studies, and Asian diaspora studies into non-aligned relation, and the founding director of the PSU Global Asias Initiative, she is committed to developing platforms that encourage multidisciplinary engagement and the cross-pollination of knowledge across disciplinary and field boundaries. Chen recently published Global Asias: Tactics & Theories (2025), a collaborative project that serves as the inaugural volume of a new Global Asias book series with the University of Hawai’i Press, and her latest project, Alien Forms and Minor Genres: A Speculative Handbook of Academic Labor, is forthcoming from Duke UP in Fall 2026.