Victor Bascara

Victor Bascara serves as an Associate Professor in the Asian American Studies Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), based at 3336 Rolfe Hall with campus mail code 722502. His academic work is anchored in UCLA's interdisciplinary framework connecting ethnic studies and Pacific regional scholarship.

His research critically examines Philippines and Southeast Asia through lenses of U.S. imperialism, with deep engagement in critical race theory and intersections of gender and sexuality. This spans Asian American literature and broader U.S. ethnic literatures, situating cultural production within colonial and postcolonial power structures. His scholarship bridges cultural studies with historical analysis of American imperial formations.

Contact: Email vbascara@asianam.ucla.edu or phone 310-267-5592. Affiliated with UCLA's Asia Pacific Center (Bunche Hall), his work contributes to critical understandings of race, empire, and transpacific cultural flows.