2026 Conference Schedule

This panel of Asian diasporic scholar-artists invites cross-genre possibilities of intimacy and kithship between Asia and the Asian diaspora. Panelists explore how poets theorize through poetry, and how Asian diasporic poets challenge the distinction between “poet” and “scholar” by crossing genre and geographic borders. We ask, How do Asian diasporic poet-scholars explore relationships to genre? How do such poet-scholars reconfigure dialogues around Asia America through their hybrid work?