Tom Sarmiento

Thomas Xavier Sarmiento is an award-winning Associate Professor of English at Kansas State University. Tom specializes in diasporic Filipinx American literature and media cultures, queer-feminist theories, and cultural representations of the U.S. Midwest. They are the author of The Heartland of U.S. Empire: Race, Region, and the Queer Filipinx Midwest (Temple University Press, 2026) and co-editor of the American Studies double special issue Unsettling Global Midwests (2023). Their research appears in several journals and edited collections, including Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies; Amerasia Journal; Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics; Asian American Literature: Discourse & Pedagogies; MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States; The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture; Q & A: Voices from Queer Asian North America; The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies; Techno-Orientalism 2.0; and Women, Gender, and Families of Color.