Research Fields
Modern and contemporary literatures and media cultures of East Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taiwan), as well as the Pacific Rim; Sinophone studies; Transpacific studies; Asian American literature; displacement, migration, diaspora; memory and trauma; health humanities.
Languages
Fluent: Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, English
Functional: French, Korean
Recent Publications
- Opinion: Fighting anti-Asian racism requires bold action, not passive endurance
- Book Review: Literary Representations of “Mainlanders” in Taiwan: Becoming Sinophone by Phyllis Yu-ting Huang. London: Routledge, 2020
- Space-Clearing Flânerie: Remapping Hong Kong in Dung Kai-cheung’s Atlas and My Little Airport’s Songs
- Fantasy, Frustration, and the Emergence of Taiwanese Consciousness in Orphan of Asia
Recent Presentations
- Imperial Media Mix: Japan’s Failed Attempt at Asia’s First Transnational Girl Group
- Inferno Lost: Lu Xun, the Burning House, and Zhang Guixing's Sinophone Heart of Darkness
- Remapping Hong Kong: My Little Airport’s Sonic Flânerie
- Bifurcation of The Masses: Marx Boy and Engels Girl in Liu Na’ou’s Short Story "Flux"
- Resilience through Disidentification: Jiang Wenye’s Wartime Musicology and Poetry