Long Le-Khac

Long Le-Khac is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Their work bridges relational race studies, Asian American and Latinx literatures, and digital humanities. They hold a Ph.D. (inferred from academic rank) and focus on global multi-racial struggles against racial capitalism and empire. Their research emphasizes literary aesthetics as tools for envisioning cross-racial solidarity.

Research Projects

• Book: Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America (Stanford, 2020)
• Current project: Racial Entanglements: Racialization Across Groups, Species, Things, and Environments (developing multi-species race theory)
• Digital humanities initiative: The Asian American Literary Corpus (mapping systemic inequities in literary scholarship)

Teaching

Le-Khac teaches courses on Asian American, Latinx, and multi-ethnic literatures; race theory; and U.S. empire. Their pedagogical approach emphasizes collaborative exploration of race, power, and narrative forms.

Publications

Recent works analyze transnational narratives, BLM discourse, and quantitative literary methods. Their scholarship spans interdisciplinary topics like refugee routes, racial entanglement theory, and Victorian data interpretation.

Lab/Team

Leads the Asian American Literary Corpus project, a collaborative digital humanities initiative.