Porntip (Ploy) Israsena Twishime

Dr. Porntip (Ploy) Israsena Twishime (she/they) is a storyteller and performance scholar. She studies and writes stories with a particular interest in stories about Asian America. Her teaching and research draw upon the political and theoretical traditions of Asian American cultural production and literature, queer and feminist of color critique, and performance studies. Dr. Ploy is passionate about empowering students to develop their own artistic practice by telling stories that they care about. Underlying this passion is her belief that stories have the potential to change the world.

 

Prior to joining the faculty at KSU, Dr. Ploy was a Pauline Scheer’s Fellow at GrubStreet Creative Writing Center in Boston and held academic appointments at Northeastern University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She earned her PhD in Communication with an emphasis in Performance Studies from the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She also holds a Graduate Certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies from the Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.