Iyko Day
- Elizabeth C. Small Professor of English
- Affiliated Faculty, Critical Race & Political Economy
- On leave, 2025–2026
Iyko Day is Elizabeth C. Small Professor of English and affiliated faculty in the Department of Critical Race and Political Economy at Mount Holyoke College. She is also a faculty member in the Five College Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program. Day is the author of Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism (Duke University Press, 2016) and her essays have appeared in American Quarterly, Amerasia, Monthly Review, and PMLA as well as magazines such as Art Forum and Brooklyn Rail. She has coedited special issues for Critical Ethnic Studies journal, including “Palestine After Analogy” (9.1), and has edited forums in Verge: Studies in Global Asias and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. She currently coedits the book series Critical Race, Indigeneity, and Relationality for Temple University Press and is a member of the Critical Ethnic Studies editorial collective. Her current research focuses on Marxist theory, colonial racial capitalism, and the visual culture of logistics.
Areas of Expertise
Asian American Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, Marxist Theory, Racial Capitalism, Settler Colonial Studies, Queer of Color Critique
Education
- Ph.D., M.A., University of California, Berkeley
- M.A., Dalhousie University
- B.A., University of Calgary
