EDUCATION

A.B., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Ph.D., Tufts University

ACADEMIC PROFILE

Specializes in Asian American, ethnic American, and twentieth-century American literature, with a special interest in cultural studies and literary theory.

COURSES

 EN133 - Narrative / Interpretation

 EN143- American Literary History III

 EN246 - Intro to Asian American Literature I

 EN262 - Contemporary Asian American Literature

 EN806 - Post-Identities

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)

• Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots (2005)
• Co-Editor, Asian American Studies: A Reader (2000).
• "Sentimentalism and Sui Sin Far," Legacy . (2003)
• "A Diasporic Future? Native Speaker and Historical Trauma," LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory (2001 ).
• "The Unknowable and Sui Sin Far: the Epistemological Limits of 'Oriental' Sexuality," in Q & A: Queer in Asian America (1998).
• "Pahkar Singh's Argument with Asian America: Color and the Structure of Race Formation," in A Part, Yet Apart: South Asians in Asian America (1998).

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION

Book reviews editor for the Journal of Asian American Studies.