Vernadette Gonzalez

Affiliate Faculty

 

Degree

University of California, Berkeley (PhD)

Area of Interest

American Studies
Asian American Literacy and Cultural Studies
Culture of U.S. Imperialism
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Philippine and Filipino American Studies
Transnational American Studies

Biography

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. They currently serve as the coordinator of the Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies program and as Head Graduate Advisor. Her interdisciplinary humanities research broadly examines cultures of imperialism, with a focus on the United States and its colonial territories and interventions in Asia and the Pacific. She is the author of Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai‘i and the Philippines (Duke UP 2013), and Empire’s Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper (Duke UP 2021), and co-editor with Jana K. Lipman and Teresia Teaiwa, of the 2016 American Quarterly special issue on the convergences of tourism and militarism, and with Hōkūlani K. Aikau of Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai’i (Duke 2019), which now anchors a book series with Duke University Press, with volumes on Palestine, Guåhan/Guam, Okinawa, Singapore, Korea, the San Francisco

Bay Area, Puerto Rico and other sites in development. The Detours project is also developing an open access Teaching Detours ibook in collaboration with the University of Hawai‘i’s Center for Pacific Islands Studies. Most recently, she is co-editor of Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader, an interdisciplinary critical reader about the K-pop group BTS with Patty Ahn, Michelle Cho, Rani Neutill, Mimi Thi Nguyen, and Yutian Wong (Duke UP 2024). Her other published work can be found in collections including Tourism Geopolitics (U. Arizona

2021); Making the Empire Work (NYU 2015); Mobile Desires (Palgrave 2015); Transnational
Crossroads (U. Nebraska 2012); as well as in journals such as Journal of Tourism History
(2020); Shima (2020); Radical History Review (2017 and 2015); The Journal of Sustainable
Tourism (2017); and Critical Ethnic Studies (2017).
Category
Affiliate Graduate Faculty