I am Elizabeth C. Small Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. I am also an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Critical Race and Political Economy and a faculty member in the Five College Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program. 

My research focuses on Asian American literature and visual culture, Marxist theory, and colonial racial capitalism. I am the author of Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism (Duke University Press, 2016) and my essays have appeared in American Quarterly, Amerasia, Monthly Review, and PMLA as well as magazines such as Art Forum and Brooklyn Rail. I have coedited special issues for Critical Ethnic Studies journal, including “Palestine After Analogy” (9.1), and edited forums in Verge: Studies in Global Asias and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. I also co-curated the exhibit Visual Kinship at the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College, which is on view August 30-November 29, 2025. 

I currently coedit the journal Critical Ethnic Studies and the book series Critical Race, Indigeneity, and Relationality for Temple University Press.