Frederick Fluchel

i use he/him and they/them pronouns. i like the name Riko.

=== Courses ===

= Div I =

Advisor: Michael Klare

Fall 2009

 * Energy, Resources, and American Foreign Policy
 * Memory Systems
 * Elementary Chinese I
 * Indigenous Religions of East Asia

January 2010

 * Dreaming East, Dreaming West

Spring 2010

 * The Personal Essay


 * Chemicals In Your Food


 * Elementary Chinese II


 * The Practice of Literary Journalism

Summer 2010

 * Intermediate Chinese I at Anhui Agricultural University


 * Intermediate Chinese II at Anhui Agricultural University

= Div II =

Title: Queer Filipino American Experience & Identity, and Queer Theory in Creative Writing Committee: Jaclyn Pryor (chair), Nell Arnold (member), Kim Chang (past chair)

Fall 2010

 * Asian American Identity in Law and Literature (Amherst)


 * Mystery and Imagination: Fiction Workshop


 * Third Year Chinese I


 * Ways of Knowing in the Social Sciences

Spring 2011

 * Critical Ethnography


 * Intro to Queer Studies


 * Philippine History: Revolution, Rizal and American Imperialism (Independent Study)
 * Point of View for Fiction Writers

Summer 2011

 * Reflections of a Fil-Am Queer: Postcolonial Critique of the LGBT Rights Movement in the Philippines (independent learning activity in the Philippines)

Fall 2011

 * Queer Resistances (Smith)
 * Asian American Women Writers (Smith)
 * Truthful Invention: Advanced Fiction Workshop

January 2012

 * EPEC: Fiction Revision workshop

Spring 2012

 * Race, Gender and Sexuality in The Digital Age
 * In a Queer Time &amp; Place: Queer Theory and The Politics of Time (TA)
 * Sexuality &amp; Storytelling: Advanced Fiction Workshop
 * Filipino I (supervised independent study through Five College Language Center)

=Div 3= Title: Biyuti in the Road: Queer World-Making in the Filipina/o Diaspora Committee: Susana Loza (Chair), Nell Arnold (member), Iyko Day (Mt. Holyoke, member)

Fall 2012

 * Beyond Beginning Whitewater Kayaking
 * Filipino II (supervised independent study through the Five College Language Center)
 * Queer World-Making (a group independent study, seminar & workshop of Div 3s concentrating in queer studies)

Spring 2013

 * Queer World-Making (Group Independent Study, seminar & workshops of Div 3s concentrating in queer studies

=Extracurriculars and Service=


 * QIPOC (Queer International &amp; People of Color) Signer: F11-S12


 * Co-Cycle: organizing &amp; fundraising for a bike tour of cooperatives across the United States during summer 2012, to be made into a documentary by an NYU film crew:To The Moon S12-Summer 12


 * School of Critical Social Inquiry Student Member: S12-present


 * Student Member of the Search Committee for an Assistant Professor of Queer Studies: F12-present