On March 19, the Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen) at Michigan State University (MSU) will host its spring colloquia series, New Research on Women and Gender: Global and Local Perspectives.

This month’s presentation, “Performing G.A.P. Drama, or the Gay Asian Princess Goes to the United States of America,” is scheduled at 1:30 pm in room 302 of the International Center, MSU.

Dr. Eng-Beng Lim, an assistant professor in MSU’s department of English, will discuss the works of Asian-American queer performance artist Justin Chin, which Lim has termed "Gay Asian Princess (G.A.P.) drama."The presentation focuses on Chin’s show Go, Or the Approximate Infinite Universe of Mrs. Robert Lomax, a queer revision of The World of Suzie Wong. Using Chin’s Southeast Asian background to read his conception of the Asias as a form of critical regionalism, this presentation examines the contrivance of his performative and dramatic reconfigurations of the white man/native boy dyad through a new focus on the native boy or gay Asian male as a leading character.

For more information on this or other presentations in the series, contact GenCen at (517) 353-5040 or gencen@msu.edu.

The MSU Center for Gender in Global Context promotes teaching, research, and outreach on global transformation and gender relations locally, across the nation, and around the globe.