To some, it may seem as if Asian and Asian American studies has had limited engagement with big tent Digital Humanities, but Asian American scholarship has long been engaged with the digital and the technological, and the often unseen politics therein. For example, Lisa Nakamura has been writing about racial passing online since the mid 1990s, while the collection AsianAmerica.Net: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace (2003) brings together a range of scholars working in information technologies. Both of these examples predate much of the canonical scholarship that has come to define the Digital Humanities, which itself has a longer history in humanities computing. That earlier scholarship deals in questions of identity, nationality, power, community, and social justice—all concerns that have historically been central to Asian American Studies and other ethnic and postcolonial studies. These investments also mark the important contributions that Asian American studies can bring to digital humanities scholarship.
Below is my attempt to collect some of the various Asian and Asian American digital projects, scholarly and not, but all critical to understanding the larger landscape of Asian American digital criticism. The categories are more fluid than the headings would suggest, but, more than anything, they serve as a convenient way to organize information.
There are many gaps and unintentional omissions, so if you know of people, projects, etc. that should be added to this list, please pass them on! Corrections for links and contact info also welcomed.
Bibliography to come! Please send me recommendations for that if you have any.
Contents:
- Collectives
- Cultural & Civic Engagement
- Archives, Collections, Projects, Centers
- Film & Videos
- People
- Additional Resources
Collectives:
#transformDH Collective: http://transformdh.org/
Postcolonial Digital Humanities: http://dhpoco.org/
Cultural and Civic Engagement:
#TooFEW: Feminists Engage Wikipedia: Feminsts Engage Wikipedia
18 Million Rising: http://18millionrising.org/
Center for Ethnocommunications: http://www.centerforethnocommunications.com
Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network: http://www.dvanonline.com/
Don’t Buy Miss Saigon: http://www.dontbuymiss-saigon.com/
Hyphen Magazine: http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/
Media Action Network for Asian Americans: http://www.manaa.org/
Nikkei Australia: http://nikkeiaustralia.com/
Pacific Arts Movement: http://pac-arts.org/
Peril Magazine: http://peril.com.au/
Performance 4a: http://www.performance4a.org.au/
The Propeller Group: http://www.the-propeller-group.com/
Archives, Collections, Projects, Centers:
Archivist of the Yellow Peril: http://www.apa.nyu.edu/gallery/kishi/
artasiamerica: http://www.artasiamerica.org/
Asian American Literary Review: http://www.aalrmag.org/
Asian American Writer’s Workshop: http://aaww.org/
Buddhist Translators Workbench: http://www.mangalamresearch.org/projects-resources/buddhist-translators-workbench/
Center for Art and Thought: http://centerforartandthought.tumblr.com/
Chinese-Australian Debutantes: http://chinesedebutante.wordpress.com/
Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Culture: http://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/lib/GCOE/guideline_e.html
Digitizing Chinese Englishmen: http://chineseenglishmen.adelinekoh.org/
GlobalTemp: http://globaltemporariness.tumblr.com/
iFans: Mapping K-pop’s International Fandom: http://kpopkollective.com/
Invisible Australians:http://invisibleaustralians.org
Japanese Association of Digital Humanities: http://www.jadh.org/
Of Another Fashion: http://ofanotherfashion.tumblr.com/
PDub Productions: http://hypercities.com/pdub/about/
Performance 4a: http://www.performance4a.org.au/
Research Center for the Digital Humanities (Taiwan): http://www.digital.ntu.edu.tw/en/index.jsp
The Rhetorical Making of the Asian/Asian American Face (dissertation): http://www.slideshare.net/sanojenn/the-rhetorical-making-of-the-asianasian-american-face
Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts: http://sarit.indology.info/
Seoul of Los Angeles: http://seoulofla.com/
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program: www.apa.si.edu
South Asian American Digital Archive: http://www.saadigitalarchive.org/
The Tibetan & Himalayan Library: http://www.thlib.org/
Thick Dumpling Skin: http://www.thickdumplingskin.com/
Through the Lens, Indonesian Institute of Social History:
http://sejarahsosial.org/ThroughtheLens/ThroughtheLens.html
Film and Videos:
Asian Australian Film Forum: http://asianaustralianfilmforum.wordpress.com/
San Diego Asian Film Festival: http://pac-arts.org/exhibitions/film-festival/
Tadashi Nakamura: http://www.tadashinakamura.com/
They’re all So Beautiful: http://theyreallsobeautiful.com/
Wong Fu Productions: http://wongfuproductions.com/
YOMYOMF Youtube Network: http://www.youtube.com/user/YOMYOMF
Blogs:
Angry Asian Man: http://www.angryasianman.com/
Disgrasian: http://disgrasian.com/
Threadbared: http://iheartthreadbared.wordpress.com
You Offend Me, You Offend My Family: http://youoffendmeyouoffendmyfamily.com/
People:
Patty Ahn, UC San Diego
A. Aneesh, Univ .of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Vanessa Au, Independent Scholar and Seattle Asian American Film Festival
Aimee Bahng, Pomona College, @banhgerama
Jan Bernabe, Center for Art and Thought
Mitzi Carter, UC Berkeley
Alex Cho, UC Irvine
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Simon Fraser U, @whkchun
Anne Cong-Huyen, Univ. of Michigan, @anitaconchita
Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
Jigna Desai, Univ. of Minnesota
Jillana Enteen, Northwestern Univ.
Sarah Gambito, Fordham Univ.
David Germano, Univ. of Virginia
Nguyễn Tân Hoàng, Bryn Mawr
Jieh Hsiang, National Taiwan University
Wendy Hsu, Los Angeles Dept. of Cultural Affairs
Amy Jin Johnson, Brown Univ., @amyjin811
David Kim, Univ. of Delaware
Adeline Koh, Richard Stockton College, @adelinekoh
Tseen Khoo, La Trobe University, @tseenster
Dai Kojima, Univ. of Toronto, @dkojima
Jen Tsen Kwok, National Tertiary Education Unit, @JTKwok
Lewis Lancaster, UC Berkeley
Viola Lasmana, USC, @viola_lasmana
Jerry Won Lee, UC Irvine, @jerrywonlee
Lori K. Lopez, Univ. Wisconsin-Madison
Adriel Luis, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
Rahul Mukherjee, UPenn
Kiyonori Nagasaki, Institute for Digital Humanities, Tokyo, @knagasaki
Lisa Nakamura, Univ. of Michigan, @lnakamur
Tadashi Nakamura, Independent Filmmaker
Konrad Ng, @konradng
Lilly Nguyen, UNC-Chapel Hill
Josef Nguyen, UT Dallas
Mimi Thi Nguyen, Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, @lnzombia (author of Exoticize This! & Worse than Queer)
Kent Ono, Univ. of Utah
Minh-Ha T. Pham, Pratt, @minh81
Vincent Pham, Willamette University
Amit S. Rai, Queen Mary, University of London
Jennifer Rhee, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., @j_s_rhee
Margaret Rhee, SUNY Buffalo, @fauxpoetics
Roopika Risam, Salem State Univ., @roopikarisam
Jennifer Sano-Franchini, Virginia Tech., @jsanofranchini
Celine Parreñas Shimizu, SFSU
Haerin Shin, Vanderbilt
Wendy Sung, UT Dallas
Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, NYU
Lily Wong, American Univ.
Ann Wu, UT Dallas
Nabeel Zuberi, Univ. of Auckland
Additional Resources (teaching/context/etc.)
Resources for non-Black Asians on Anti-Blackness (collaborative doc)
DH in Japan (Prezi). by Kiyonori Nagasaki
Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies Modules, by Jigna Desai and graduate students
Around DH | Global Lists:
- East Asia
- Middle East and North Africa
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia (this list is woefully short. If you know of projects, people, or centers, please add to it!)
Terrific resource. Thanks for putting this together.
Thank you! Your site is so amazing! Would you mind if I added this as well?
This is wonderful. Thanks for assembling this!
hi
I am Jigna Desai at the UMN (gender, women, and sexuality studies AND asian american studies). here is a project that i did with a few graduate students. please feel free to share it
http://www.gwss.umn.edu/modules/
It has feminist, queer, ethnic, and postcolonial studies scholarship included.
For example, there are discussions of orientalism, bhagat singh thind, etc in the empire module.
best
jigna
Thank you, Jigna! I will definitely add these. May need to start adding new categories soon… 🙂
Thanks for all these resources, Anne. I am Nabeel Zuberi in Media, Film and Television at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Here are my details: http://artsfaculty.auckland.ac.nz/staff/?UPI=nzub001
Aw, thanks for visiting and commenting. I’ve added you to the list!
Anne, this is fantastic. I am Vincent Pham and I am an assistant professor in Communication at California State University San Marcos. Other folks that would could be included are Kent Ono (University of Utah), Lori K. Lopez (University of Wisconsin Madison), and Vanessa Au (independent scholar). We all work at the intersection of Asian American Studies, Media Studies, and Communication Studie
Thanks so much for this, Vincent! You’re actually at my old MA alma mater! We should meet up some time. 🙂