Olivia Anne Lafferty

Olivia Anne Lafferty is an assistant professor of English at Pomona College and is affiliated with the American Studies Program and the Claremont Colleges’ Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies. Before teaching at Pomona, she served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Brown University where she earned her Ph.D. in English. Her teaching and research center on contemporary transpacific literatures and visual cultures. In her research, she examines the circuits of US and Spanish colonialism and the sensorial and affective attunements of transpacific subjects. Her article on “Vibrant Reading” was selected as the Editor’s Choice of the Summer 2024 issue of MELUS, and her research has been supported by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America.

She is currently working on her first book project, Transpacific Vibrancies: Listening across Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Chicanx Texts.