Box 68: Interviews at the Intersections of Asian American Literature

Box 68 is so named for the year in which the term “Asian American” was coined, the activist movements it came out of, and the boxes of materials one requests from archival collections.

Its first iteration, as a newsletter and archive of interviews with scholars, preservationists, and writers, Box 68 will be delivered as special editions of the Asian American Literary Archive newsletter. We aim to publish interviews with mid-career to established Asian American writers and emerging to established academics and preservationists working with Asian American literature.

Fall 2025

Victoria Chang
Rajorshi Das
Sine Hwang Jensen
Keva X. Bui
Nellie Wong

Editor-in-Chief
Yanyi

Assistant Editor
Winona Guo

Contact

Nominate an interviewee

To nominate a writer, preservationist, or scholar for an interview, please send an email to director [at] asianamericanliteraryarchive [dot] com with a link to the person’s website and work and short reasoning for your nomination.

Contribute an interview

Are you a scholar sitting on some interviews you've done for your research? A potential interviewer with someone in mind? To contribute an interview to Box 68, send a pitch and a bit about your background to director [at] asianamericanliteraryarchive [dot] com.

Support the journal

There are number of ways to support the Archive! The easiest, fastest way to support the Asian American Literary Archive is to become an individual member. Second to that, take a class with us and come to our events!