Welcome

Classes offered for Fall 2011
Previously offered courses
About the Instructor
Research
Department
Articles featuring Amy Sueyoshi
Video and Audio Clips

Classes offered for Fall 2011

ETHS710 Theories in Ethnic Studies
SXS300 Introduction to Sexuality Studies

Previously offered courses

ETHS380/SXS380 ONLINE Coloring Queer
ETHS380/HMSX380 Coloring Queer
ETHS600/HIST466 History of U.S. People of Color
ETHS640/840 Race and Sexual Migration
ETHS645/HMSX645 Sex in the City
ETHS670/HIST462 Making Whites
SXS 301 Introduction to LGBT Studies
SXS702 Sexuality in Historical Perspective
HMSX750 Queer Theory

About the Instructor

Amy Sueyoshi holds a joint appointment in Race and Resistance Studies and Sexuality Studies. She joined the faculty at San Francisco State University in Fall 2002 after completing a Ph.D. U.S. in history from UCLA. Her courses address issues of race, gender, and sexuality in historical and contemporary contexts.

Curriculum Vitae

Research

Research Interest - U.S. History, Sexuality, Gender, Race, Immigration, Asian America

Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi

Poet Yone Noguchi, more famously as known as the father of acclaimed artist Isamu Noguchi, enmeshed himself in several duplicitous affairs at the turn of the century. As Yone wrote passionate letters of love to western writer Charles Warren Stoddard, he proposed marriage to Alabama’s first historian Ethel Armes and impregnated editor Léonie Gilmour. Private fantasies and frustrated intimacies attest to how even the most seemingly selfish acts of sexuality are bound up in socio-cultural norms.

Forthcoming in spring 2012 with University of Hawai‘i Press

Selected Publications

“Miss Morning Glory: Negotiations of Race and Gender in the Literary Life of Yone Noguchi,” Amerasia Journal – Special Issue: Further Desire 37, no. 2 (2011): 2-27.

“Intimate Inequalities: Interracial Affection and Same-sex Love in the ‘Heterosexual’ life of Yone Noguchi, 1897-1909,” Journal of American Ethnic History 29, no. 4 (Summer 2010): 22-44.

“Finding Fellatio: Friendship, History and Yone Noguchi,” in Embodying Asian American Sexualities, Gina Masequesmay and Sean Metzger, ed., (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009): 157-172.

“Friday the Thirteenth – Love, Commitment, and then Catastrophe: Personal Reflections on the Marriage Equality Movement,” Amerasia Journal- Special Issue: Asian Americans and the Marriage Equality Debate 32, no.1 (2006): xi-xvii.

“Mindful Masquerades: Que(e)rying Japanese Immigrant Dress in Turn-of-the-Century San Francisco,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 26, no. 3 (2005): 67-100.

“Sexuality and Asian Pacific Islander History,” Asian Pacific American Collective History Project, 2004 [online]; available from http://apachp.net/; Internet.