Thomas Xavier Sarmiento
Title
Thomas Xavier Sarmiento
Primary Sources
Sarmiento, T. X., Castellanos, M. B., & Perreira, C. (2023). Unsettling Global Midwests: A Special Issue of the American Studies Journal. American Studies, 62(3), 7-19. https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2023.a913944
Sarmiento, T. X. (2023). Course Design as Critical Creativity: Intersectional, Regional, and Demographic Approaches to Teaching Asian American Literatures. Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies, 12(1), 6. https://doi.org/10.55917/2154-2171.1172
Sarmiento, T. X. (2022). The spectacle of the (trans*)(Filipinx) body. Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies, 2(2), 159–166. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48680002Sarmiento, T. X. (2023). Course Design as Critical Creativity: Intersectional, Regional, and Demographic Approaches to Teaching Asian American Literatures. Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies, 12(1), 6. https://doi.org/10.55917/2154-2171.1172
Sarmiento, T. X. (2020) To Return to St. Louis: Reading the Intimacies of the Heartland of U.S. Empire through “The Dogeater”, Amerasia Journal, 46(2), 218-235. https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2020.1852701
Sarmiento, T. X. (2014). The empire sings back: Glee’s queer materialization of Filipina/o America. Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 39(2), 211–234. https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlu013
Sarmiento, T. X. (2014). The heartland of empire: Queer cultural imaginaries of Filipinas/os in the Midwest, Doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota). Accessed March 30, 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/11299/200264
Secondary Sources
Lopez Lyman, J., Sarmiento, T.X., Perreira, C., & Castellanos, M.B. (2023). Place-Making and Place-Keeping the Global Midwests. American Studies 62(4), 7-21. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ams.2023.a927979.
Cruz, D. (2012). Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv11sn6ss
Extra Resources
Atienza, P.M.L., Compoc, K., Gabiola, J., Tagle, T.Q., & Sarmiento, T.X. (October 26 2021) Q & A: Voices from queer Asian North. SDPL Pride. Facebook. Accessed 9 February 2023. https://www.facebook.com/SDPLpride/videos/if-you-couldnt-make-it-to-the-q-a-voices-from-queer-asian-north-america-virtual-/1306581089816951/
Profile: Thomas Xavier Sarmiento. https://cla.umn.edu/american-studies/profile/profile-tom-sarmiento
Profile: Thomas Xavier Sarmiento. https://cla.umn.edu/american-studies/profile/profile-tom-sarmiento
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Citation
“Thomas Xavier Sarmiento,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed December 6, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/567.