Education

B.A. English, Temple University
M.F.A. Creative Writing: Poetry, Rutgers University-Newark
Ph.D. English Literature, Temple University

Research

My research explores multilingual and multi-media practice in contemporary Asian American poetry, examining the ways in which writers enact formal experimentation through the combination of text and image as a means of confronting national, cultural, racial, and ideological boundaries. My current book project, Expansive Hybridity, investigates the innovative ways in which Asian American and Pacific Islander poets use hybrid forms to represent hybrid identities and negotiate the fraught conditions of migration, colonization, geopolitics, and marginalization.

Publication

"'Crammed With Tongues': Cosmopolitan Creole in Cathy Park Hong’s Dance Dance Revolution” (Forthcoming, College Literature)

Courses

WRPR 150: Approaches to Literary Analysis
ENGL 232: The Graphic Novel: Narratives in Long-form Comics
ENGL 249: Introduction to Asian American Literature
ENGL 291: Creative Writing: Poetry I
ENGL 366: Topics in American Literature: Asian American Hybridity