Christopher B Patterson

Christopher B. Patterson (Ph.D., U of Washington) is an Assistant Professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on transpacific discourses of literature, games, and films through the lens of empire studies, queer theory and creative writing. His academic book, Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific (Rutgers University Press, 2018), traces identity-transition across Southeast Asian migrant narratives. His articles have appeared in American Quarterly, Games and Culture, M.E.L.U.S., and the anthologies Global Asian American Popular Cultures (New York University Press, 2016) and Queer Sex Work (Routledge, 2015). He writes fiction under the pseudonym Kawika Guillermo, and is the author of Stamped: an anti-travel novel (Westphalia Press, 2018), as well as short stories in The Cimarron Review, Feminist Studies, and The Hawai’i Pacific Review.
Supervisors: Alys Weinbaum and Chandan Reddy