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Martin Joseph Ponce

Martin Joseph Ponce

Martin Joseph Ponce

Program Director, Asian American Studies; Associate Professor, Department of English
he/him/his

ponce.8@osu.edu

545 Denney Hall
164 Annie and John Glenn Ave
Columbus, OH 43210

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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.