Karen Tongson

Karen Tongson (born August 23, 1973, in Manila, Philippines)[1] is a Filipino-American cultural critic, writer and queer studies scholar.

She is the author of Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (NYU Press, August 2011), co-editor of the book series Postmillennial Pop (with Henry Jenkins), and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Popular Music Studies (with Gustavus Stadler).

[3] Born in Manila, Philippines on August 23, 1973, to one of the nation's founding families of Latin jazz—the Katindig family—Tongson immigrated to the U.S in the early 1980s and became a U.S. citizen in 1989.

[4][5][6] Tongson is currently an Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California, where she teaches courses on gender and popular culture, comparative minority discourse, suburban sexualities, empires and regionalism, California cultures, queer studies, and nineteenth-century British literature.

[7][8] Tongson's work has appeared in a range of print and online publications including Social Text, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, GLQ, Nineteenth-Century Literature, the anthologies Queering the Popular Pitch, and The Blackwell Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Studies, as well as the French magazine, les Incrockuptibles.