Faculty Profile - Samuel Yoon
Dr. Samuel Yoon
he/him
Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Studies
Email: [email protected]
Office: LOH 319
Phone: 616-331-8043
Bio
Samuel Yoon is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Grand Valley State University. He teaches courses across the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and the Integrative Studies Program. His current manuscript, Cruelty Counts: Anti-Asian Violence and Its Queer Afterlives, explores how queer Asian/American visual and performance cultures confront and reimagine dominant ways of documenting anti-Asian violence.
Areas of Interest
Asian American & Asian Canadian Studies; Queer and Trans Studies; Transnational Feminisms;
Performance & Visual Culture; Diasporic Studies; Theories of Race & Empire
Education
2025 Ph.D., Women and Gender Studies, The University of Toronto
2019 M.A., Women and Gender Studies, The University of Toronto
2018 B.A., Communications & Women and Gender Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
Publications
Yoon, Samuel. 2025. "Maiden China's Queer Performance of Care in the Wake of the Atlanta Spa Shootings." Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas 9(3): 209-31.
Yoon, Samuel. 2025. "The Past in the Present: An Encounter between Gay Asians of Toronto and New Ho Queen." In Asian Canada Is Burning, edited by Rose Ann Torres, Ian Liujia Tian, and Coly Chau. Brill.