Ethan Fukuto is a writer and scholar working at the intersections of Asian American studies, performance studies, and queer of color critique. His work places queer of color/Asian American cultural production in conversation with psychoanalysis, critical theory, and queer theory to explore the dynamics of queer and racialized sexuality, subjectivity, and desire.
Ethan is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies at Williams College, where he also teaches in the program in Asian American Studies.
His current book project, tentatively titled Denuded: AIDS and the Asian American Body, is a study of Asian North American art produced in the wake of AIDS. It examines how artists document and devise acts of survival, intimacy, and mourning to grapple with the necropolitics of AIDS loss.
Ethan holds a BA in Media Studies from Pomona College and an MA and PhD in Performance Studies with certificates in Critical Theory and Gender & Sexuality Studies from Northwestern University. He is from Los Angeles, CA.
