Takeo Rivera

Boston University College of Arts & Sciences

Takeo Rivera is assistant professor of English at Boston University, where he is also core faculty in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and affiliated faculty in African American Studies. His current book project, Model Minority Masochism: Asian American Masculinity and the Perversities of Racial Form, focuses on Asian American cultural production, performance, and sexuality across a range of media, and is currently under contract with Oxford University Press. His articles have been published in AmerAsia Journal, Performance Research, and the Routledge Companion to Asian American Media, among others. He is a former faculty fellow at Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center, and is also a playwright whose work has been staged and read in New York City, Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Los Angeles. Prior to attaining his PhD, Rivera worked as a rape crisis advocate, counselor, and educator in San Jose, CA.

Areas of Expertise

• Cultural Studies
• Film and Media
• Race and Ethnicity
• Social Theory

Methodology

• Archival Methods
• Mixed Methods
• Qualitative Methods
• Literary criticism
• Performance analysis