Martin Joseph Ponce
Election
Position
Name
Martin Joseph Ponce
Candidate statement
Associate Professor of English, Ohio State University
Bio: As a longtime resident of the Midwest (Wisconsin and Ohio), I would be honored to serve my fellow Midwest Asian Americanists in AAAS. Since attending my first conference twenty years ago while completing my dissertation on Filipinx American literature and U.S. empire, AAAS has inspired and enriched my work as a teacher and scholar of Asian American, comparative U.S. ethnic, and queer of color literatures and cultures at Ohio State University. I have always cherished the annual meetings as vibrant and welcoming spaces of interdisciplinary knowledge production and social interaction. It would be a privilege to draw on my administrative and conference-planning experiences, directing OSU’s Asian American and Sexuality Studies programs to continue fostering such intellectual exchange and community-building for current and new members. During this time of intense attacks on academic freedom and DEI initiatives, as well as on immigrants, people of color, and trans and queer folks, I would be particularly invested in collaborating with colleagues on devising and sharing pedagogical and political strategies for sustaining Asian Americanist practices and cultivating coalitional solidarities on our campuses and beyond.
Bio: As a longtime resident of the Midwest (Wisconsin and Ohio), I would be honored to serve my fellow Midwest Asian Americanists in AAAS. Since attending my first conference twenty years ago while completing my dissertation on Filipinx American literature and U.S. empire, AAAS has inspired and enriched my work as a teacher and scholar of Asian American, comparative U.S. ethnic, and queer of color literatures and cultures at Ohio State University. I have always cherished the annual meetings as vibrant and welcoming spaces of interdisciplinary knowledge production and social interaction. It would be a privilege to draw on my administrative and conference-planning experiences, directing OSU’s Asian American and Sexuality Studies programs to continue fostering such intellectual exchange and community-building for current and new members. During this time of intense attacks on academic freedom and DEI initiatives, as well as on immigrants, people of color, and trans and queer folks, I would be particularly invested in collaborating with colleagues on devising and sharing pedagogical and political strategies for sustaining Asian Americanist practices and cultivating coalitional solidarities on our campuses and beyond.