Takeo Rivera is assistant professor of English at Boston University, where he is also a core faculty in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and affiliated faculty in African American & Black Diaspora Studies and American Studies. Takeo is the author of Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity (Oxford UP 2022), which won the 2024 Honorable Mention for the Media, Performance, and Visual Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. His articles have been published in such journals as Amerasia, Performance Research, and ASAP/Journal, as well as the Routledge Companion to Asian American Media and Handbook of Cultural Politics and Education anthologies. Takeo is a former faculty fellow at Harvard University's Charles Warren Center, and is also a playwright whose work has been staged and read in New York City, Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Los Angeles.