Assistant Professor Ishii teaches classes on 20th- and 21st-century U.S. multiethnic literature, transnational Asian/American literature, and queer of color critique. His scholarship has been published in Camera Obscura, American Quarterly, and The Journal of Asian American Studies, as well as the edited volumes Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media (Rutgers, 2015) and Global Asian American Popular Cultures (NYU, 2016). He is completing his first book on panethnic Asian American arts activism from the 1970s to the present with special attention to the recurring problem cultural capital has posed for race-conscious organizing.