Christopher B. Patterson

Biography

Christopher B. Patterson (Ph.D., U of Washington) teaches and researches cultural studies, literature, video games, digital humanities, and creative writing, within and across the transpacific. Before arriving at HKBU, he worked as an Assistant Professor in Nanjing, China, and as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His articles have appeared in American Quarterly, Games and Culture, M.E.L.U.S. (Multi-ethnic Literatures of the United States) and the anthologies Global Asian American Popular Cultures (NYU Press) and Queer Sex Work (Routledge). He writes book reviews for Asiatic and M.E.L.U.S., and is on the editorial board for Games and Culture. He hosts the podcast New Books in Asian American Studies, and spent two years as a program director for the Seattle Asian American Film Festival. His fiction, published under his alter ego Kawika Guillermo, has appeared in Feminist Studies, The Hawai’i Pacific Review, Drunken Boat and Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism & Beyond. He writes monthly articles for Drunken Boat and decomP Magazine, where he serves as the Prose Editor.

Research Interest

cultural studies, media studies, creative writing, genre fiction, ethnic and race theory, queer theory, Asian American studies, diaspora and postcolonial studies, and video games.