Jih-Fei Cheng holds a B.A. in Communication with minors in Chinese Studies and World Literatures from the University of California, San Diego; an M.A. in Asian American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles; and a Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity, with emphasis in Visual Studies, from the University of Southern California. He is developing a book project tentatively titled “AIDS and it Afterlives: Race, Gender, and the Queer Radical Imagination.” Cheng has served as the managing editor for American Quarterly, the official publication for the American Studies Association. Previously, he worked in HIV/AIDS social services, managed a university cultural center, has been involved in arts and media production and curation, and has participated in the boards of various queer of color community-based organizations in Los Angeles and New York City, such as the Fabulous Independent Educated Radicals for Community Empowerment! (FIERCE!). His organizing work has addressed queer and transgender health, immigration, gentrification and youth homelessness, police harassment and brutality, and prison abolition.
