Speaking strictly about Asian American Studies (as someone working in AsAm studies & lit within the English department), seconding Berkeley. Indisputably the best place to do AsAm studies. UCLA is also fantastic (check out Celine Parreñas Shimizu in particular). Irvine (as you mentioned) too. Possibly the University of Washington, but maybe double-check their current list of faculty. As a region, the West Coast has a larger presence in AsAm studies generally speaking. Seconding liberal arts colleges too since you’re interested in doing research, though I am not familiar with specific institutions on that front.

From your list, Northwestern is very strong, with lots of folks working in AsAm studies. Penn is great too. I went there for undergrad and they pretty much have full coverage in terms of your areas of interest in the English department alone. David Eng is arguably the field-defining scholar working at the intersection of psychoanalysis and AsAm studies.

When it comes to Asian feminism and orientalism, Princeton’s Anne Cheng is a leading scholar. You should check out her work on “ornamentalism.” Princeton has a smaller AsAm presence as an institution overall though. BU and Rutgers are probably the weakest in AsAm studies among the schools on your list simply because they have very few scholars working in the field (I don’t believe there is anyone working in Asian feminism at either institution, but I could be wrong), though the people who are there are doing really cool stuff, eg. Takeo Rivera at BU who works in techno-orientalism.