A Comics Studies Discussion at UCSD

We invite you to a roundtable discussion with scholars Long Bui (UCI), Weihsin Gui (UCR),and Tammy Ho (UCR), on Friday, April 10, 2026 at 1 PM Pacific. Each has published research on Southeast Asia, covering Vietnam, Singapore, and Burma.

Long T. Bui is a Professor of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine. His scholarly interests include refugee memory, contemporary Vietnam and Global Asias, higher education, race/gender/sexuality in the media, and the history of technology. He is the author of books such as Returns of War: South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory (2018), and Model Machines: A History of the Asian as Automaton (2022), and Viral World: Global Relations during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2024). He has published articles in Journal of Asian American Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Global Society, among others. They touch on a range of issues like cyberhacking, film, reality tv, music, graphic novels, currency wars, drag, consumerism, urbanization. Bui has a PhD in Ethnic studies and BAs in Political Science and Asian American Studies. His research has been funded by the UC New Racial Studies grant, UCHRI, the Center for Global California Studies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). He is a first-gen college student and scholar.

Weihsin Gui is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He works on global anglophone literatures with a focus on literature from Southeast Asia and its diasporas. Gui is the author of National Consciousness and Literary Cosmopolitics (2013) and the editor of Common Lines and City Spaces (2014), a collection of essays on the Singaporean poet Arthur Yap. He has co-edited a special journal issue of Interventions on Singaporean literature and culture (2016), a special journal issue of Antipodes (2019) on literary and cultural connections between Southeast Asia and Australia, and was the editor of a special issue of Science Fiction Studies (2025) on Southeast Asian speculative fiction. Gui has published numerous essays in journals such as Comparative Literature, The Global South, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Postcolonial Text, and Textual Practice.

Tamara C. Ho is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Romancing Human Rights: Gender, Intimacy, and Power between Burma and the West (University of Hawai’i Press, 2015). Her research has been published in the journals Amerasia, Signs, PMLA, and Discourse and in various collections in Asian American studies. She is the co-PI of the Transformative Hope video series (2022, with Russell Jeung), which features “Religious Responses of Asian American Elders to Racism.”