Allison Yasukawa
Education:
MFA Studio Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago
MA, TESOL/Applied Linguistics, University of Illinois at Chicago
Bio
Allison Yasukawa is an interdisciplinary maker, educator and language nerd. She holds an MFA in Studio Arts and an MFA in TESOL/Applied Linguistics from the University of Illinois. Allison investigates asymmetries of power in language and interaction and examines crossings from the personal to the global.
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Research Interests
Allison is invested in what communication scholar Joanne Gilbert calls "heckling the status quo”. Her work draws from decoloniality, feminist theory, language awareness, art education, Asian American studies and more. She blends arts-based modes of inquiry with methodologies from the humanities and social sciences, like close reading, multimodal discourse analysis and participatory action-research.
Allison has exhibited at the American University Museum in Washington D.C., High Desert Test Sites at Joshua Tree and Dak'Art OFF in Senegal. Her writing has been published in several journals. She has presented workshops on art-making and language-making in Ethiopia, Ivory Coast and China. She is working on a book about language and creative practice.
