Associate Professor of American Studies and Faculty Affiliate in English
email413-597-3219
Schapiro Hall Rm 216
Education
B.A. Duke University
M.P.A. Princeton University, International Affairs
M.A. Johns Hopkins University, Writing
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, English Literature
M.P.A. Princeton University, International Affairs
M.A. Johns Hopkins University, Writing
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, English Literature
Areas of Expertise
Twentieth-and twenty-first-century poetry and poetics, particularly experimental minority poetry; Asian American literature, especially poetry; Anglophone writing by Chinese in the diaspora; Asian Australian literature; comparative U.S. minority literatures; twentieth-and twenty-first century American literature.
Courses
Note: courses in gray are not offered this academic year.
AMST 128 / COMP 128 / ENGL 128
Reading Asian American LiteratureAMST 215 / COMP 215 / ENGL 217
Experimental Asian American WritingAMST 304 / COMP 307 / ENGL 388
Asian American Writing and the Visual ArtsENGL 327 / AFR 301 / AMST 307 / COMP 311
Experimental African American PoetryAMST 335 / ARTH 335
Uncovering WilliamsAMST 336 T / ENGL 320 / COMP 335
Two American Poets: Wallace Stevens and John AshberyLATS 403 / COMP 375 / ENGL 375 / AFR 403 / AMST 403
New Asian American, African American, Native American, and Latina/o WritingENGL 410 / AFR 410 / AMST 410 / COMP 410
Black Literary and Cultural TheoriesCOMP 465 / ENGL 326 / AFR 465 / AMST 465
Race and AbstractionScholarship/Creative Work
- Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry (Stanford University Press, 2014).