Eng-Beng Lim is an associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and the founding director of the Consortium of Studies in Race, Migration, and Sexuality at Dartmouth College. He is currently a visiting faculty fellow at Wellesley College’s Newhouse Center for the Humanities. He is the author of the award-winning Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias (NYU Press, 2014), which examines the legacies of queer colonialism in the performance of orientalist intimacies across Asia and Asia America. His current monograph projects include "Megastructures of Feeling," which extends Raymond Williams’s “structures of feeling” to architectural utopias and migration; "Ethnocuties," a visual study of photography and fantasy art by artists exploring radical queer friendship forged with plants or through aesthetic experimentations that are uncanny, wild, and cute; and a multi-volume anthology of one-act immigration plays by Asian American performers and writers.
In Itamar Moses’s new play The Ally, the “trickiest question”—“whether the fight against anti-Semitism belongs as a coequal branch of the social justice movement”—is itself a kind of trick question. Articulated through Moses’s academic alter ego in the play, Asaf … Continue reading “Parsing the Jewish American Complex”
