The TAPS Graduate Students host Christine Mok for the December First Friday in Roble Gym 137*. Open to the TAPS Community.

ABOUT THE LECTURE | For the past decade, Lloyd Suh has dramatized forgotten moments that have indelibly shaped American history. Through a sustained exploration of over 150 years of Asian and Asian American experiences, these plays contest the pastness of the past to reveal the unexpected ways that untold histories reverberate into the present. This book talk situates Suh’s cycle of history plays, along with the dramaturgical and editorial process from page-to-stage-to-print, in order to explore the ways these plays reorient the site of theater in Asian American history—and the work of Asian American history in theater. 

*Zoom link available upon request (email kxfang [at] stanford . edu)

ABOUT CHRISTINE MOK | Christine Mok is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island. She has published in Theatre Survey, Theatre Journal, JADT, PAJ: A Performing Arts Journal, Modern Drama, and the Journal of Asian American Studies. She is co-editor with Joshua Chambers-Letson of Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s China Trilogy: Three Parables of Global Capital (Bloomsbury, 2021) and editor of Lloyd Suh’s Once in the Countryside: A Collection of Plays (Bloomsbury, 2025).