This course examines how Asian American identity shapes, and is shaped by, interactions with digital and technological cultures. 

Analyzing across histories of photography, social media, post-internet art, and other media forms, we will consider how Asian American bodies have been envisioned as "technological" and how Asian Americans have resisted such stereotypes.

Dr. Miya Shaffer is a researcher, educator, and dance writer based in New York and Toronto. She is a current SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in English at York University. She is also a US area editor at Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures of the Americas (ADVA) journal and a co-chair of the Performance working group at the Cultural Studies Association.

Dr. Shaffer holds a PhD and MA in Culture and Performance from UCLA and a BA Honours in English Literature and World Cinema Studies from McGill University.