
ACADEMIC
Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Drama
Department of English
Boston University
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Joint Appointment in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Affiliated Faculty: African American Studies, American & New England Studies
Education
PhD, Performance Studies
University of California, Berkeley, 2017
MA, Modern Thought and Literature
Stanford University, 2009
BA, Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
Stanford University, 2008
Research Interests
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Performance studies
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Contemporary drama
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Race in the United States
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Queer Theory
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Gender Studies
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Masculinity
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Asian American Studies
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U.S. woman of color feminism
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New media
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Video game studies
Courses
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English 785, “Queer Theory: Power, Pleasure, Performance.” Fall 2020. Boston University.
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English 356, “Contemporary Drama and Performance, 1945-present.” Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2020. Boston University.
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English 393/Women’s Studies 393, “Cyborgs, Goddesses, and Gamers: Technoculture and Horizons of Gender & Race.” Spring 2019, Spring 2021. Boston University.
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English 355, “Drama and the Modern.” Fall 2018. Boston University.
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Women’s Studies 801, “Theories and Methods of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.” Spring 2018. Boston University.
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English 177, “Introduction to Asian American Literature.” Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2021. Boston University.
Books
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Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity. Oxford University Press, April 2022.
Selected Publications
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Forthcoming: “Asian, Adjacent: Utopian Longing and Diasporic Mediation in Disco Elysium.” Made in Asian/America. ed. Christopher B. Patterson & Tara Fickle.
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“Labor Out of Time: Forensic Performance in Kirsten Greenidge’s Greater Good and Fullbright’s Tacoma.” ASAP/Journal. 6-2. 2021, pp. 327-352.
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“Ordering a New World: Orientalist Biopower in World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria.” Routledge Companion to Asian American Media. ed. Lori Lopez & Vincent Pham. New York: Routledge, 2017.
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“Do Asians Dream of Electric Shrieks?: Techno-Orientalism and Erotohistoriographic Masochism in Eidos Montreal’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution.” Amerasia Journal. 40-2. 2014, pp. 67-86.
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“You Have to Be What You’re Talking About: Youth Poets, Amateur Counter-Conduct, and Parrhesiastic Value in the Amateur Youth Poetry Slam.” Performance Research. 18-3. June 2013, pp. 112-121.
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Co-authored with Korina Jocson: “Toward a Theory of Poemness: Cultural Politics and Transformative Pedagogies.” Handbook of Cultural Politics and Education. Zeus Leonardo, ed. Boston: Sense Publishers, July 2010.