Faculty Associate
largo[at]yorku.ca
Assistant Professor
Department of Visual Art & Art History, York University
Research Keywords:
Asian diasporic cultural production; Filipinx studies; decolonial aesthetics; curatorial activism; virtual curation; queer studies; community-based art education; research-creation.
Research Region(s):
Philippines
Research Diaspora(s):
Filipino Diaspora
Dr Marissa Largo (she/her) is a researcher, artist, curator and educator whose work focuses on the intersections of community engagement, race, gender and Asian diasporic cultural production. Her forthcoming book, Unsettling Imaginaries: Filipinx Contemporary Artists in Canada (McGill Queen University Press) examines the work and oral histories of artists who imagine Filipinx subjectivity beyond colonial logics. She is co-editor of Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos and Canadian Imaginaries (Northwestern University Press 2017) and has been the Canada Area Editor of the journal of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (ADVA) since 2018. Dr Largo welcomes graduate students whose research falls within Asian diasporic cultural production, Filipinx studies, decolonial aesthetics, curatorial activism, virtual curation, queer studies, community-based art education, and research-creation.