Research

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“The Great Asian American Novel: A Little Life and Postracial Forms of Asian-pessimism,” Forthcoming at American Literary History.

“Apprehending the ‘Angry Ethnic Fag’: The Queer (Non)Sense of Shame in Justin Chin’s ‘Currency’ and ‘Lick My Butt,’” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 26.1 (January 2020): 103-28.

“‘Why Don’t You Love Me?’: Post/colonial Camp and the Imeldific Fetish in Here Lies Love,” American Quarterly 71.4 (December 2019): 993-1020.

“Toward the ‘Uncommonly Beautiful’: Queer-of-Color Youth and ‘Delectable Deformity’ in Rakesh Satyal’s Blue Boy,” Special issue “Twenty-First Century Perspectives on US Ethnic Literatures” of MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 43.4 (December 2018): 33-56.

“‘Give It up, Kwang’: Disavowing Asian Labor and Queer/Trans of Color Critique in Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” Theatre Journal 70.2 (June 2018): 173-93.

“Queer Genealogies of (Be)Longing: On the Thens and Theres of Asian America in Karen Tei Yamashita’s I Hotel,” Journal of Asian American Studies 20.3 (October 2017): 345-72.

Book Chapters

“Making a Necessity of Extravagance: Work and Play in the Asian American(ist) Economy,” Chapter 13 in Asian American Literature in Transition Volume Three, 1965-1996, edited by Asha Nadkrani and Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (Cambridge University Press, 2021): 241-59.

“Camp Objects: Orientalist Kitsch and Trashy Re-Collections of Japanese American Incarceration,” Q&A: Voices from Queer Asian North America, edited by Martin F. Manalansan IV, Alice Y. Hom, and Kale Bantigue Farjado (Temple University Press, 2021): 216-226.

Edited Projects

Co-editor, with Amy K. King, “Forum, Part II: Toward Alternative Humanities and Insurgent Collectivities,” Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association 6.1 (June 2017).

Co-editor, with Amy K. King, “Forum, Part I: Emergent Critical Analytics for Alternative Humanities,” Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association 5.1 (June 2016).

Book Reviews

Solicited Review of Inscrutable Belongings: Queer Asian North American Fiction by Stephen Hong Sohn in Journal of Asian American Studies 22.3 (October 2019): 447-49.

Solicited Review of Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias by Eng-Beng Lim in Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 25.2 (August 2015): 249-52.

Review of No Safe Spaces: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Theater by Angela Pao in Journal of Asian American Studies 16.1 (February 2013): 125-128.