Against (In)Visibility and Microaggression in Higher Education: Asian American Female Faculty Reckoning

This study aims to explore how Asian American female faculty members in U.S. higher education experience and navigate social and academic dynamics. Building upon the AsianCrit and Womanism framework and adopting Suda as a culturally responsive ontoepistemology, four Asian American female faculty engaged in a two-year long co/autoethnographic self-study. The Suda produced vivid accounts of the experiences and challenges faced by these faculty members and their acts of resistance from multifaceted contexts and perspectives. The collective findings from this study offer implications for higher education institutions to become more equitable, sensitive, and responsive to the experiences and resistance strategies of Asian American female faculty to help systematically disrupt stereotypical images, unjust expectations, and epistemic exclusion.