Writing

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Racial Disintegration: Biomedical Futurity at the Environmental Limit.” American Literature 93.3 (September 2021): 497-523.

“Matériel Culture: The Militourist Aesthetic of Mary McCarthy’s Vietnam War Reportage.” Contemporary Literature 61.2 (Summer 2020): 162-193.

“The Posthuman Subject in/of Asian American Literature.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature (February 2019): 1-23.

“Ecologies of Entanglement in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” Journal of Asian American Studies 20.1 (February 2017): 95-117. 

“Creative Evolution: Narrative Symbiogenesis in Larissa Lari’s Salt Fish Girl.” Amerasia 42.2 (2016): 118-138.

“In Uniform Code: Catherine Barkley’s Wartime Nursing Service in A Farewell to Arms.” Twentieth-Century Literature 62.2 (Summer 2016): 197-222. 

“Hospice Comics: Representations of Patient and Family Experience of Illness and Death in Graphic Novels.” Co-authored with MK Czerwiec, R.N. Journal of Medical Humanities 38.2 (June 2017): 95-113.

Web/Other

“Do Better Now.” ASAP/Journal 6.2 (May 2021 issue on “New Worlds of Speculation”): 303-307.

“‘feeling something as luminous’: an interview with Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Teddy Yoshikami.” Tripwire: A Journal of Poetics 16 (2020): 192-212.

“On Resisting Extinction.” Verge: Studies in Global Asias 5.2 (Forgetting Wars): 99-106.

“Rematerializations of Race.” Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association 6.1 (May 2017). 

“The Synaptic Poetics of Kimiko Hahn’s Brain Fever.” Post45: Contemporaries series on Asian/American (Anti-)Bodies (December 2016). 

“Response to Kyle Whyte Lecture ‘Living Our Ancestors’ Dystopia: Indigenous Peoples, Conservation, and the Anthropocene.’” Penn State Institute for the Arts & Humanities, Mellon Foundation Initiative, “The Boundaries of the Human in the Age of the Life Sciences” (July 2016).  

“My Mother Had a Stroke When I was Eleven” (comic) in Graphic Medicine Manifesto by MK Czerwiec, Ian Williams, Susan Squier, Michael J. Green, Kimberly R. Myers, and Scott T. Smith. University Park: Penn State University Press (2015).

Racial Beings

A book-length study about scientific discourse and experimental literary form in Asian American literature, 1965-present. Under contract with Duke University Press.

How does contemporary Asian American literature experiment with the terms of racial representation? Activating both valences of the word—literary-formal and scientific—Racial Beings: Asian American New Materialisms at the Human Limit examines post-1965 works that engage science thematically and formally to challenge the lay perception of race as a biological trait of an individual human. Through readings of contemporary fiction, poetry, and science fiction, this book project works through scientific paradigms such as quantum physics, genetic engineering, phylogeny and ontogeny, and elemental chemistry to develop reading practices de-centered from domestic realism and the individual racialized character. What is revealed is that not only is the nexus of race and science not reducible to scientific racism, but also that science can be an unlikely creative reservoir for Asian American writers that allows for racial representation beyond individual narratives of assimilation and resistance.

Work from this book project has appeared in the Journal of Asian American Studies and Amerasia.

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I am also at work on pieces of my second project regarding biomedicine and Asian American racial formation.

A twenty-four-minute film essay I created, INHUMAN FIGURES: Robots, Clones, and Aliens, can be viewed online at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center.