Adrian Khactu

Adrian Khactu specializes in Ethnic American literature and film, with a secondary focus on gender and sexuality studies. His teaching interests encompass comparative race studies, transnational American literature, queer film theory, early film history, new Asian cinemas, and creative writing. He has taught courses on queer writers of color; Asian American, Native American, U.S. Latino/a, and African American literatures; nineteenth and twentieth century American literature and film; literary theory, critical race theory, and racialized sexuality in Hollywood cinema. His primary research project is entitled “Visual Technologies of Race and the Modern American Citizen, 1865-1935,” which traces how emerging visual technology during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century necessitated the redefinition and re-codification of “race,” especially in early American cinema and among American writers of color. He graduated with a BA from Stanford University, received his MA in Creative Writing from Temple University, and is completing a PhD in English, with a certification in Cinema Studies, at the University of Pennsylvania.