Martin Joseph Ponce
Program Director, Asian American Studies; Associate Professor, Department of English
he/him/his
545 Denney Hall
164 Annie and John Glenn Ave
Columbus, OH 43210
Areas of Expertise
- Asian American literature and culture
- African American literature and culture
- Queer studies
- U.S. empire studies
Education
- PhD, Rutgers University, 2005
- MA, Rutgers University, 2002
- BS, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 1997
Martin Joseph ("Joe") Ponce is an associate professor of English whose teaching and research interests focus on Asian American, African American, and comparative U.S. ethnic literatures and cultures; queer of color and queer diasporic critique; and histories and theories of U.S. empire. He has served as the (co-)coordinator of the Asian American Studies Program, the Sexuality Studies Program, and the Diversity and Identity Studies Collective (DISCO), as well as a lead co-organizer of the three “Queer Places, Practices, and Lives” conferences at OSU. His current research projects include a queer examination of contemporary Asian American literature’s retrospective critiques of the Asian American movement’s central ideologies; and a queer diasporic analysis of Asian American literature’s critical reckonings with Japanese imperialism and U.S. exceptionalism.