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Nadine Attewell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University (SFU), where she also directs the Global Asia Program. Her work focuses on empire, intimacy, and Asian diasporic life through a feminist, queer, antiracist, and decolonial lens. She holds affiliations with SFU’s unceded Indigenous territories: xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ, and kʷikʷəƛ̓əm lands.
Dr. Attewell’s academic journey includes positions at Cornell University, the University of Nevada, Reno, and McMaster University. Her research explores archives of occupation, particularly in Hong Kong during WWII, and examines how marginalized communities navigate state abandonment through relation work. Her SSHRC-funded book Archives of Intimacy investigates racial mixing and Chinese lives in global port cities.
Key contributions include her monograph Better Britons (2014) and articles in Postcolonial Text, TOPIA, and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. She regularly engages with public lectures, such as the 2024/2025 Dorothy L. Black Lecture on Caring for Others: Intimacy and Asian Life in the Archives of Occupation.
Her work bridges postcolonial, Black feminist, and Indigenous archival methodologies. The Global Asia Program she leads fosters interdisciplinary scholarship on Asia in transnational contexts.
