Tamara C. Ho joined the Women’s Studies Department at UCR in 2006; in 2014, the department was renamed Gender and Sexuality Studies. Ho’s areas of specialization include contemporary American literature, LGBIT studies, Anglophone postcoloniality, and Southeast Asian diasporas. Her research focuses on transnational feminist literature, religion (transgendered shamanism, Burmese Theravada Buddhism), and intersections of race, ethnicity, and sexuality. Her essays related to Southeast Asia have been published the journals PMLA, Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. She authored the entry on “Burmese American Literature” for The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature, edited by Rachel C. Lee (2014). Ho’s first book Romancing Human Rights: Gender, Intimacy, and Power Between Burma and the West (2015) is published by University of Hawai’i Press. In October 2014, Ho spoke about “Migration, Diaspora, and Burma: Wendy Law‐Yone’s The Road to Wanting” at the symposium “Narrating Southeast Asian Worldliness,” organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University and Center for Southeast Asia Studies at UC Berkeley. In January 2014, Ho spoke to the Riverside branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) about “Gender, Leadership, and Change in South East Asia” and Aung San Suu Kyi. Ho has been a resident fellow at the UCR Center for Ideas and Society and UCHRI (2009), and has participated in various interdisciplinary workshops, such as the Thinking Transnational Feminisms Summer Institute (2014), hosted by Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies at The Ohio State University; the Teaching and Learning Workshop for Pre-Tenure Asian & Asian American Religion and Theology Faculty, hosted by the Wabash Center (2011-12); and the Spelman-NWSA Women of Color Institute (2009).