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
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MA, Modern Thought and Literature
Stanford University, 2009
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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
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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.
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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.
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