Academic History

M.A., Ph.D. (ABD), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A., Yale University
At St. Thomas since 2006

Expertise/Specialties

Asian American Studies
Transnational Feminist Studies
Cultural Studies

Selected Publications

“Autoethnography Otherwise: Challenging Poetics and Re-Meaning Race in Fred Wah’s Creative Critical Writing.” Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography. Eds. Eleanor Ty and Christl Verduyn (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2008). 55-70.

"It's a Required Course: Asian Americanist Critique Outside the Asian American Studies Classroom," in the forum "Unexpected Sites of Knowledge and Practice," in the Teaching Texts column of the Journal of Asian American Studies 9.2 (June 2006): 198-201.

Selected Presentations

“Reading the Dark Races and Civilizational Discourses in Hopkins’s Essays and Short Fiction.” American Literature Association Conference. San Francisco, CA. 22-25 May 2008.

“Vienna Teng, Anime Music Videos, and Asian American Audiovisual Identities on Youtube.” Association for Asian American Studies Association. Chicago, IL. 16-20 Apr. 2008.

“Queer Intimacies, Asian American Bodies, and Violence (Un)Represented Onstage.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Chicago, IL. 27-30 Dec. 2007.

“One, Two: Conjoined Twins, the Self, and Medical Technology.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Portland, ME. 1-4 Nov. 2007.

“Staceyann Chin, Reggae, and US Queer Protest.” American Studies Association. Philadelphia, PA. 11-14 Oct. 2007.

“From Kitchen Tables to Coffee Houses: Small Presses and the Making of Asian American Literary Studies.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. Minneapolis, MN. 11-14 Jul. 2007.

Awards and Honors

Advanced Teaching Fellowship, Department of English, UNC Chapel Hill, 2005-2006
Women's Studies Teaching Fellowship, Duke University, Fall 2004 and Spring 2006
Studio for Instructional Technology and English Studies Fellowship, 2000-2001

Membership in Professional Organizations

Modern Languages Association
Association for Asian American Studies
Cultural Studies Association (U.S.)
American Studies Association