Book Talk: Torn and Injurious Love

Event details Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2026 Time: 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM Location: Taper Hall (THH) - 420 - 3501 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089 Cost: $0 Type: Lecture / Talk / Workshop Campus: University Park Campus Department: Gender and Sexuality Studies Audience: Students, Alumni, Faculty/Staff About this event Join Anna Storti and Corrine Collins for a conversation about their new and forthcoming books. They will discuss mixed-race studies, interracial intimacy, and the significance of this work today. Anna Storti is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Torn: Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence (Duke University Press, 2026), and she is currently at work on a new book that spotlights the cultural politics of vice. Her research has been supported by the McNair Scholars Program, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Institute for Citizens and Scholars. Her academic writing can be found in Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Feminist Studies, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, and elsewhere. Public-facing work appears in Public Books, The Conversation, Reappropriate: Asian American feminism, politics, and pop culture, and her poetry is published with Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal. Corrine Collins is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on representations of interracial intimacy in twentieth and twenty-first century African diaspora literature and popular culture. Her first book, Injurious Love: Racial Violence and Interracial Intimacy will be published by New York University Press in January 2027. Her articles and essays have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Callaloo; Caribbean Quarterly; Literature, Critique, and Empire Today; ASAP/Review; Women's Studies; and Gastronomica. Official event details: https://calendar.usc.edu/event/book-talk-torn-and-injurious-love