Lead PI/Director, Queens College AANAPISI Project (QCAP)
Klapper Hall, Room 636
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You can find my short CV here.
Research Interests
My research interests are primarily in Asian American studies, especially on 20th- and 21st-century Asian American literatures and cultures, and critical ethnic studies. I have published articles on Asian American comedy, fiction, and comics/graphic narratives.
In addition to my academic work, I sometimes do public scholarship, giving talks and doing interviews on content and issues related to Asian Americans.
Educational Background
Ph.D. in English, University of California, Santa Barbara
M.A. in English, University of California, Santa Barbara
B.A. in English and Theology, University of San Francisco
Teaching Interests
I regularly teach undergraduate and graduate courses on Asian American literature (ENGL 369, 733, 781), as well as on multiethnic comics/graphic narratives (ENGL 391W, 640, 781), pop culture (ENGL 391W, 399W), comedy and satire (ENGL 390, 781), introduction to literary study (ENGL 170W), and the arts in New York City (HNRS 125).
I’m excited to work with students who are interested in Asian American literatures and cultures, writers and artists of color, critical ethnic studies, comics studies, comedy and humor studies, and/or pop culture!
Awards & Fellowships
Lead Principal Investigator, Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions Program Grant for “Queens College AANAPISI Project” – U.S. Department of Education (2022–2027)
Project Team Member, CUNY Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI) Grant for “Building Infrastructure for Asian American/Asian Studies and AAPI Communities across CUNY” (2022–2023)
PSC-CUNY Research Awards – Research Foundation CUNY (2019–2020, 2014–2015, 2013–2014, 2011–2012, 2010–2011)
Co-Director, NEH Humanities Initiative Grant for “Building Asian American Studies across the Community College Classroom” – National Endowment for the Humanities (2016–2017)
President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by Full-time Faculty – Queens College (2011)
Selected Publications
Articles & Book Chapters
In conversation with Aline Lo and Swati Rana. “‘Going Back to the Basement’: A Roundtable on Creativity, Critique, and the Stewarding of Asian American Literary Arts.” Amerasia, vol. 49, nos. 1–2, 2023, pp. 155–64.”
“‘1971: Aiiieeeee! Hotel’ and Asian American Literary History.” Approaches to Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita, edited by Ruth Y. Hsu and Pamela Thoma, Modern Language Association of America, 2021, pp. 65–70.
“Postmemory and the Imaginative Work of Those Who Come After.” Women’s Studies Quarterly, vol. 48, nos. 1–2, 2020, pp. 129–32.
“Comedy, Humor, and Asian American Representation.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.809.
“Teaching History through and as Asian/American Popular Culture in Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers and Saints.” Redrawing the Historical Past: History, Memory, and Multi-Ethnic Graphic Narrative, edited by Martha J. Cutter and Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, University of Georgia Press, 2018, pp. 61–86.
“Asian American Comedy and Humor,” “Asian Americans on Television,” and “The Internet and Asian Americans” (encyclopedia entries). Asian American Culture: From Anime to Tiger Moms, edited by Lan Dong, Greenwood, 2016, pp. 222–29, 614–20, 360–63.
“Disorienting the Vietnam War: GB Tran’s Vietnamerica as Transnational and Transhistorical Graphic Memoir.” Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies, vol. 5, 2014, http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/aaldp/vol5/iss/4/.
Review of David Gillota’s Ethnic Humor in Multiethnic America. Studies in American Humor, no. 29, 2014, pp. 109–11.
Co-authored with Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Sharon Tang-Quan. “‘You Should Not Be Invisible’: An Interview with Mitsuye Yamada.” Contemporary Women’s Writing, vol. 8, no. 1, 2014, pp. 1–16, http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/8/1/1.
Co-authored with Anne Cong-Huyen. “Teaching Asian American Graphic Narratives in a ‘Post-Race’ Era.” Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives: Essays on Theory, Strategy and Practice, edited by Lan Dong, McFarland, 2012, pp. 80–93.
“The Networks of Transnational American Studies.” Journal of Transnational American Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2011, http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1bm7f5qq.
Public Scholarship
“Always Be My Maybe and the Continuing History of Asian American Comedy,” The Takeaway radio program and podcast, WNYC Studios, June 6, 2019. https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/always-be-my-maybe-history-asian-american-comedy.
