Heidi Amin-Hong

Heidi Amin-Hong is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on Asian American and Pacific Islander cultures shaped by US imperialism, militarism, global capitalism, and environmental transformation. She examines ecological collapse and transpacific ecologies through literary and visual narratives.

Education:

• Ph.D., University of Southern California

Research Interests: Her work bridges ecological aesthetics with Cold War afterlives, analyzing how diasporic writers and artists reimagine demilitarized futures through cross-border and interspecies coalitions. Key themes include transpacific speculative fiction, migrant ecologies, and the entanglement of human/nonhuman histories.

Research Affiliations: American Cultures and Global Contexts Center, Literature and the Environment.

Courses Taught: Includes 'Transpacific Speculative Fiction,' 'Global Environmental Literatures,' and 'Racial Ecologies of the Transpacific.'