Lily Luo
Lecturer of Political Science
Lily W Luo specializes in Political Theory and American Politics. Her work as an interdisciplinary scholar, educator, and artist is centered on transformative pedagogy, political organizing, and feminist and anticolonial imaginings of futurity.
More About Me
She is currently working on her book about Grace Lee Boggs, a Detroit-based Chinese US American organizer, revolutionary, and philosopher. Using feminist and decolonial methodologies, she explores Grace’s legacy through personal reflection, archival research, and conversations with contemporary Detroit activists committed to the visionary organizing embodied by Grace Lee Boggs and her partner James Boggs. Her teaching focuses on community organizing, the politics of art and film, visionary political imagination, and US American politics. She has published on Techno-Orientalism, Afro-Futurism, and Asian American Political Thought, and has presented her academic work at the Western Political Science Association, National Women’s Studies Association, and the Association for Asian American Studies. You can find out more about her work on her website.
Publications
- Fred Lee and Lily Luo, “Grace Lee Boggs on Chinese Political Thought and the Next American Revolution,” Theory & Event 27, no. 4 (2024): 532-552.
- Lily Luo, “Intimacies of the Future: Techno-Orientalism, All-Under-Heaven (Tian-Xia 天下), and Afrofuturism”, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Spring 2023.