Hentyle Yapp

Associate Professor
Department of Theatre+ Dance, UC San Diego

Hentyle Yapp is associate professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Theatre + Dance at UC San Diego. Yapp previously taught at New York University, Pomona College, and San Francisco State University. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley, JD from UCLA Law, and BA from Brown University. His research broadly engages the theoretical and methodological implications of queer, feminist, disability, and critical race studies for questions regarding the state and the transnational.

He is the author of Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic (Duke University Press). The book traces how contemporary China circulates in transnational discourse. In particular, Yapp attends to cross-medial art practices and the global art market in order to produce more nuanced understandings of history, state power, and notions of the subject.