Leslie J. Fernandez

I am the Program Director for the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights (EMR) and Lecturer of Asian American Studies. I advise students pursuing secondary fields in EMR under the headings of EMR and Latino Studies and direct EMR’s curricular and co-curricular programming. I also teach courses on Asian American studies, AI, and critical race & ethnic studies. I hold weekly office hours during semesters and am available to advise by appointment year-round.

My areas of research included Asian & Asian American studies, critical race and ethnic studies, postcolonialism & anti-colonialism, science & technology studies, and science fiction. My current book project, titled “Asiandroid: Techno-Orientalism and the AI Imaginary,” examines the relationship between race and technology by analyzing representations of robots, androids, and artificial intelligence in comparison with Orientalist and techno-Orientalist discourse. My work can be found in Textual Practice and Extrapolation.