Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor of American Culture
She/Her/Hers
About
Forthcoming books:
Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal, as part of the DISCO Network, Stanford University Press, February 2025.
Articles:
“Understanding” Asians: Anti-Asian Racism, Sentimentality, Sentiment Analysis, and Digital Surveillance, Wendy Chun, Grace Hong, and Lisa Nakamura, Critical Inquiry, vol 50, no 3, 2024.
Infrastructural Fugitivity: contraband cellphones, TikTok, and vital media behind bars, Jasmine Ehrhardt and Lisa Nakamura, journal of visual culture, vol 21, no 3, 390-409, December 2022.
Feeling Good About Feeling Bad: Virtuous Virtual Reality and the Automation of Racial Empathy, journal of visual culture, vol. 19, no 1, 47-64, March 2020.
“Drawing from social justice to support targets of online harassment,”Sarita Yardi, Oliver Haimson, and Lisa Nakamura, New Media and Society, March 25, 2020.
Affiliations:
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 2023-2024
Founding Director: Digital Studies Institute
Core Faculty: Program in Asian/Pacific Islander American (A/PIA) Studies
Courtesy appointment in the Departments of Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS), Film, Television and Media (FTVM), and English Language and Literature
