Director of Student Experience, Learning, and Accessibility, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis, MN 2023–
Student Success Librarian, Lindell Library, Augsburg University, Minneapolis, MN, 2022–2023
Librarian 1 and 2, Ramsey County Library, Shoreview, MN, 2014-2022
Librarian, Hennepin County Library, Brooklyn Center, MN, 2014-2016
Co-founder and blogger, Whole Person Librarianship, 2013
Library Intern, Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2012-2013
Volunteer, Anoka County Library, Fall 2012
Preservation Intern, Minneapolis Central Library, Minneapolis, MN, Spring 2012
Blogger, Hack Library School, 2012-2013
Reference Intern, St. Mary's University, Minneapolis, MN, Fall 2011
Volunteer, Hosmer Library, Minneapolis, MN, 2011-2012
Volunteer, Rondo Community and Outreach Library, St. Paul, MN, St. Paul Public Libraries, Summer 2011
Librarian, Asian American Literature Fans, 2011-
Copy Cataloging Student Assistant, Sterling Memorial Library, New Haven, CT, 1998-1999
MLIS, Saint Catherine University, May 2013
Radical librarianship, public services, access, literacy dogs, scholarly communications, metadata schemas, digital technology
MA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 2002
English and American Literature
Graduate Certificate in Cultural Studies at UNC Chapel Hill
Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies at Duke University
BA, Yale University, May 1999
English Language and Literature
Asian Americans in Story, co-authored with Sarah Park Dahlen, ALA Editions, forthcoming.
"The Articulation of Student Success," Student Success Librarianship, edited by Melody Lee Rood and Olivia Patterson, ACRL Press, forthcoming
"Militarized Friendship Narratives: Enemy Aliens and Indigenous Outsiders in Cynthia Kadohata's Weedflower," College Literature 41.1 (2014): 66-89.
“Discontiguous States of America: The Paradox of Unincorporation in Craig Santos Perez’s Poetics of Chamorro Guam,” Journal of Transnational American Studies 3.2 (2011): 1-28.
“A Student Roundtable on Prison Abolition and Imprisonment Writing.” Co-written with Elizabeth Corr, Kelly Kraemer, Nicholas Lankford, and Nathalia Roberts. Radical Teacher 88 (Summer 2010): 52-63.
“Stinky Bodies: Mythological Futures and the Olfactory Sense in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl.” MELUS 33.4 (Winter 2008): 167-187.
“Autoethnography Otherwise: Challenging Poetics and Re-Meaning Race in Fred Wah’s Creative Critical Writing.” Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography. Eds. Eleanor Ty and Christl Verduyn (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2008). 55-70.
“It’s a Required Course: Asian Americanist Critique Outside the Asian American Studies Classroom.” “Teaching Texts” column of the Journal of Asian American Studies 9.2 (June 2006): 198-201.
This Was 2020: Minnesotans Write About Pandemics and Social Justice in a Historic Year, Ramsey County Library, 2021. Winner of the Minnesota Author Project in the Communities Create category, 2021.
Hack Library School Ebook, September 2013.
“Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies,” special issue of American Quarterly, co-edited with Lindsey Claire Smith, September 2010. Republished as Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011). Special Recognition Award from the American Studies Association.
“Theorizing Asian American Fiction,” special issue of Modern Fiction Studies 56.1, co-edited with Donald Goellnicht and Stephen Hong Sohn, March 2010.
Sylvia Shin Huey Chong. The Oriental Obscene: Violence and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2012. Journal of Asian American Studies (October 2012).
Char Booth. Reflective Teaching, Effective Learning. Chicago, IL: ALA Editions, 2011. College & Research Libraries (November 2012).
Christine Kim, Sophie McCall, and Melina Baum Singer, eds. Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2012. Canadian Literature.
Timothy Yu. Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry Since 1965. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2009. MELUS (Winter 2010).
Larissa Lai. Automaton Biographies. Vancouver, ON: Arsenal Pulp P, 2010. The Asian American Literary Review (2011, Issue 2). Republished on Galatea Resurrects (December 2011).
Jane Jeong Trenka. Fugitive Visions. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf P, 2009. The Asian American Literary Review (Spring 2010, inaugural issue).
Caroline F. Levander and Robert S. Levine, eds. Hemispheric American Studies. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2007. MELUS (Winter 2009).
Jeffrey F. L. Partridge. Beyond Literary Chinatown. Seattle, WA: U of Washington P, 2007. Modern Fiction Studies (Summer 2009).
“Dark Blue Suit” and “Peter Bacho.” Ed. Seiwoong Oh. Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature (New York: Facts on File, 2007).
Beta Phi Mu inductee, Beta Beta Xi chapter, 2013
Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Scholarship, 2012
Faculty Partnership, “Media, literary, and cultural studies: methodological inquiries,” University of St. Thomas, January 2010 (with Dina Gavrilos, Communications and Journalism Department)
Midwest Faculty Seminar, “Hurricane Katrina and Contemporary Issues,” University of Chicago, November 2-4, 2006
Advanced Teaching Fellowship, Department of English, UNC Chapel Hill, 2005-2006
Mellon Doctoral Seminar, “History, Memory, and the Literary Text,” Summer 2005
Association for Asian American Studies Graduate Student Travel Award, Spring 2005
Women’s Studies Teaching Fellowship, Duke University, Fall 2004 and Spring 2006
Graduate School Travel Award, Fall 2003
Bruce W. Lea Fellowship, Fall 2003
Bahr Travel Award, Spring 2003
Ruth Rose Richardson Travel Award, Spring 2003
Teaching Fellowship, Department of English, UNC Chapel Hill, 2001-2005
Studio for Instructional Technology and English Studies Fellowship, 2000-2001
Editor and Manager of Website and Information Resources, 2011-2022
Edited dissertations for publication in ProQuest
Created and coordinated 300+ webpages of text-based and multimedia instructional content on academic writing
Taught academic writing in webinars and in-person workshops at residencies
Instructor, Information Studies Department, 2014-2015
INFS 1000: Information Literacy and Research Skills (required core, 5 sections)
Instructor, English Department and Aquinas Honors Seminars, 2006-2011, 2013, 2018, 2022
ENGL 111: Critical Reading and Writing I (required core, 9 sections)
ENGL 112: Critical Reading and Writing II (required core, 10 sections)
ENGL 337: A Sense of Space and Place in Asian American Literature
GENG 561: War and Colonialism in Asian American Literature (grad level)
ENGL 214: American Authors I, colonial America to 1900 (cross-listed ACD)
ENGL 215: American Authors II, 1900 to the present (cross-listed ACD, 2 sections)
ENGL 341: Asian American Women Writers (cross-listed Women’s Studies & ACD)
ENGL 395: Literatures of American Imprisonment (cross-listed ACD)
ENGL 481: Discontiguous States of America (senior seminar)
GENG 561: Discontiguous States of America (grad level)
ENGL 295: Speculation in Contemporary American Literature
IDSC 480: Dogs!!!: Environment, Society, and Representation (Aquinas Honors seminar co-taught with Maria Kim)
IDSC 480: Dog Park Research: Community Mobilization, Built Environments, and Representation (Aquinas Honors seminar co-taught with Maria Dahmus)
Teaching Fellow, English Department, 2001-2006
ENGL 11: Introductory Composition and Rhetoric (required core, 5 sections)
ENGL 12: Academic Writing Across Disciplines (required core, 5 sections)
ENGL 28: Major American Authors
ENGL 24: Contemporary Literature (on science fiction and environmental science in fiction)
Graduate Instructor, Curriculum in International and Area Studies, 2003-2004
INTS 80: Social Theory and Cultural Diversity (major req, 2 sections)
INTS 80: The American South and the Global South (co-taught with Kristina Bobo)
Graduate Instructor, Program in Women’s Studies, 2004-2006
WMST 162S: Asian Americans and Popular Culture (upper-division core sequence)
WMST 150S.04/LIT 124S.04: Asian American Feminisms
Asian North American literatures, Asian American studies, ethnic American literatures, Asian/American/Indian studies, transnational feminist studies, sexuality studies, twentieth-century American literature, popular culture, literary theory, cultural studies, legal studies, posthumanities, critical environmental studies
Collect and Publish Community Voices with MN Writes MN Reads. Minnesota Library Association Annual Conference, October 2021.
Science Nonfiction for 40 in 50 Readers' Advisory Panel. Minnesota Library Association Annual Conference, October 2019.
Invited panelist. Spring symposium on American Literature and the Public. Center for American Literary Studies. Pennsylvania State University. State College, PA. 20 Mar. 2015.
Moderator. Native People and the Information Profession. MLIS Program, Saint Catherine University. Saint Paul, MN. 7 Apr. 2015.
"Elegy and a Virginian Adolescence in Jon Pineda's Sleep in Me." Association for Asian American Studies. San Francisco, CA. 17-20 Apr. 2014.
Co-organizer for the inaugural meeting of the Section for Cultural Heritage, Archives, Libraries, and Information Science. Association for Asian American Studies. San Francisco, CA. 17-20 Apr. 2014.
2013
"Critical Issues in Archival and Library Practices: Empire, Knowledge, and Scholarly Communication." Co-organizer and roundtable participant. Association for Asian American Studies. Seattle, WA. 17-20 Apr. 2013.
"Domestic Abuse, Allegory, and Family Romance in Esmeralda Santiago's América's Dream." Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Boston, MA. 3-6 Jan. 2013.
"Expanding the Informational: Asian American Digital Representation and Community Empowerment." Organizer and roundtable participant. Association for Asian American Studies. Washington, DC. 11-14 Apr. 2012.
“Native-Asian Encounters.” Organizer. Division of Asian American Literature and Division of American Indian Literature collaborative panel. Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Seattle, WA. 5-8 Jan. 2012.
“Militarized Friendship Narratives: Enemy Aliens and Indigenous Outsiders in Cynthia Kadohata's Weedflower.” American Literature Association Conference. Boston, MA. 26-29 May 2011.
“Discontiguous States of America.” Association for Asian American Studies. New Orleans, LA. 19-21 May 2011.
“Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Think.” Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide Conference. University of California at Riverside. 10-12 Mar. 2011.
“Literature, Wars, and the American Body.” Organizer and chair. Division of Asian American Literature and American Literature Section collaborative panel. Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Los Angeles, CA. 6-9 Jan. 2011.
“Irruptions of Asianness, Symptomatic Racial Difference, and the Evacuation of Asian Bodies in Science Fiction Films.” Association for Asian American Studies. Austin, TX. 7-10 Apr. 2010.
“Theorizing Asian American Fiction.” Organizer and chair. Division of Asian American Literature panel. Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA. 27-30 Dec. 2009.
“Southeast Asian American Literature.” Special session chair. Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA. 27-30 Dec. 2009.
“Race and Environmentalism.” Session organizer and chair. American Studies Association. Washington, DC. 5-8 Nov. 2009.
“Picturing a Native Photographer.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Inaugural Conference. Minneapolis, MN. 21-23 May 2009.
“Dissociation, Sex, and Travels.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention. San Francisco, CA. 27-30 Dec. 2008.
“Asian America Is in the Heartland: Agribusiness and Fertility in Ruth Ozeki’s All Over Creation.” Division of Asian American Literature panel. Modern Language Association Annual Convention. San Francisco, CA. 27-30 Dec. 2008.
“Alternative Contact.” Co-organizer of a series of three panels on Native American Studies. American Studies Association. Albuquerque, NM. 16-19 Oct. 2008.
“Canine America: How Dogs Shape American Personhood, Poetics, and Publics.” Session organizer for posthumanities panel on dog studies. American Studies Association. Albuquerque, NM. 16-19 Oct. 2008.
“Dog Parking.” American Studies Association. Albuquerque, NM. 16-19 Oct. 2008.
“Reading the Dark Races and Civilizational Discourses in Hopkins’s Essays and Short Fiction.” American Literature Association Conference. San Francisco, CA. 22-25 May 2008.
“Tropics of Asian America: Critical Studies in the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita.” Chair and organizer of Circle for Asian American Literary Studies standing panel. American Literature Association. San Francisco, CA. 22-25 May 2008.
“Vienna Teng, Anime Music Videos, and Asian American Audiovisual Identities on Youtube.” Association for Asian American Studies. Chicago, IL. 16-20 Apr. 2008.
“The Great Third Coast: How Teaching in the Midwest and South Challenges Asian American Studies.” Panelist for pedagogy discussion. Association for Asian American Studies. Chicago, IL. 16-20 Apr. 2008.
“Queer Intimacies, Asian American Bodies, and Violence (Un)Represented Onstage.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Chicago, IL. 27-30 Dec. 2007.
“One, Two: Conjoined Twins, the Self, and Medical Technology.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Portland, ME. 1-4 Nov. 2007.
“Staceyann Chin, Reggae, and US Queer Protest.” American Studies Association. Philadelphia, PA. 11-14 Oct. 2007.
“From Kitchen Tables to Coffee Houses: Small Presses and the Making of Asian American Literary Studies.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. Minneapolis, MN. 11-14 Jul. 2007.
“Mythological Futures and Chinese Modernities in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl.” American Literature Association. Boston, MA. 24-27 May 2007.
“Diversity Requirements, Business Majors, and Asian American Literature.” American Literature Association. Boston, MA. 24-27 May 2007.
“Where Are You From? Cross-Racial Contact, Cultural Dislocations, and Ethnic Ambiguity.” Association for Asian American Studies. New York, NY. 5-8 Apr. 2007.
“Ishle Yi Park’s Poetic Anger and Interracial Drama.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA. 27-30 Dec. 2006.
“Gnomes Rule! Group Dynamics in World of Warcraft.” Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) Conference. Washington, DC. 19-22 Apr. 2006.
“Asian/American/Indian Literary Studies.” Pathways 2006: Cultural Intersections in Native North America. Yale Group for the Study of Native America. Yale University, New Haven, CT. 7-9 Apr. 2006.
“Looking South: Asian Americanists Doing Area Studies and Diaspora Studies.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA. 22-26 Mar. 2006.
“Sounding Asian American: Multicultural Critique and Academic Knowledge.” Emerging Critical Scholarship on Asian Pacific American Issues. Asian Pacific American Graduate Students Organization. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL. 3-4 Mar. 2006.
“Asian American Souths.” Navigating the Global American South Conference. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. 2-3 Mar. 2006.
Invited panelist for “East Meets South: 150 Years of Asian/Southern Intersections” sponsored by the Multicultural Center and Institute for Southern Studies at Duke University, Durham, NC. 22 Oct. 2005.
“The Curiosity of Asian Immigrant Photographers and Their Native Subjects.” New Directions in American Indian Research Conference. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. 7-8 Oct. 2005.
“Challenging Poetics and Re-Meaning Race in Fred Wah's Creative Critical Writing.” Beyond Autoethnography: Writing Race and Ethnicity in Canada. Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON. 28-30 Apr. 2005.
“‘Suddenly, we are blazing with tongues afire’: Contextualizing racial sound and rhythm through Janice Mirikitani’s poetry and Vienna Teng’s suburban folk.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference. Los Angeles, CA. 20-24 Apr. 2005.
“Research, Pedagogy, and Asian American Women in the Women’s Studies Classroom.” Chair. Association for Asian American Studies. Los Angeles, CA. 20-24 Apr. 2005.
Invited Breakout Discussion Leader. Jean Fox O’Barr Symposium on Gender and Ethnic Conflict. Program in Women’s Studies. Duke University. Durham, NC. 4-5 Mar. 2005.
“Legislating Queer Sexuality through Asian America.” Asian Americans and the Law. University of Illinois. Urbana-Champaign, IL. 3-5 Feb. 2005.
“Preaching to the Choir? Bringing Non-Asian American Students to the Asian American Studies Classroom.” Roundtable discussion. East of California Conference. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. 22-24 Oct. 2004.
“Asianness in Saturday Morning Cartoons and Multicultural Children’s Literature.” Crossroads 2004. Association for Cultural Studies. University of Illinois. Urbana-Champaign, IL. 25-28 Jun. 2004.
“Yao Ming versus Shaq: Asian Masculinity and Sports.” Crossroads 2004. Association for Cultural Studies. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL. 25-28 Jun. 2004.
“Pop Music Genres and Racial Belonging.” Cultural Studies Association Second Annual Conference. Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 5-9 May 2004.
“Love as Resistance? The Politics of Sex in Lawrence Chua’s Gold by the Inch.” Locating Love Conference. English Student Association. City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY. 26 Mar. 2004.
“Colonial Legacies and Mythic Beginnings in Shani Mootoo and Larissa Lai’s Fiction.” Negotiating the Past in Asian American and Asian British Literature. Institute of European and American Studies. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. 27-29 Nov. 2003.
“Buffy and Race.” Cultural Studies Association First Annual Conference. Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA. 5-7 Jun. 2003.
“Enemy Aliens: Dissent and Descent.” Homeland Security Conference. Department of Anthropology and Cultural Studies Curriculum. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. 12 Apr. 2003.
“Manifestos, Social Transformation, Women’s Liberation.” Strategies of Critique Conference. Manifestos: From Prayer to Revolution. Programme in Social and Political Thought. York University, Toronto, ON. 11-12 Apr. 2003.
“Queer Manifestos.” Citizen Queer: Outsider Status, Dissent, and Resistance. GLBT/Q Studies. University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC. 21-22 Mar. 2003.
“Thinking Literary Studies.” New Directions: Association of Graduate English Students/Association of English Majors Conference on Literature and Writing. Department of English. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. 3-5 Apr. 2001.
Professional Organizations
Archivist, Executive Board, Association for Asian American Studies, 2019-2021
Adult Non-Fiction Award Committee, Asian Pacific American Librarians Association, 2015-2017, 2017-2019
Adult Fiction Award Committee, Asian Pacific American Librarians Association, 2013-2015
Constitution and Bylaws Committee, Asian Pacific American Librarians Association, 2013-2015
Awards and Scholarships Committee, Asian Pacific American Librarians Association, 2012-2015
Executive Committee Member, MLA Division of Asian American Literature, 2008-2013
Secretary-Treasurer, Circle for Asian American Literary Studies, 2008-2013
Executive Committee Member/Webmaster, Circle for Asian American Literary Studies, 2007-2013
Invited Retreat Participant, East of California Caucus, Washington, DC, 2003
Saint Catherine University
School Curriculum and Assessment Committee, School of Business and Leadership, 2012-2013
Co-chair and Executive Committee Member, Student Governance Organization, MLIS Program, 2012-2013
Progressive Librarians Guild, Student Chapter, 2011-2013
University of Saint Thomas
Steering Committee (elected position), English Department, 2008-2011
Graduate Program Committee (elected position), English Department, 2009-2011
Core Courses Committee, English Department, 2007-2008
Women’s Studies Advisory Committee, 2007-2010
Pre-Major Faculty Advisor, College of Arts and Sciences, 2007-2010
Common Text Committee, English Department, 2006-2011
Journal and Book Manuscript Peer Reviewer
Modern Fiction Studies (Mfs)
UNC Chapel Hill/Duke University
Peer Review Committee (elected), Department of English, UNC Chapel Hill, 2005-2006
Site Committee, Association for Asian American Studies, Atlanta, GA, 2006
Website Designer, Center for Asian and Asian American Studies, Duke University, 2005-2006
Coordinating Group Leader, Department of English, UNC Chapel Hill, 2004-2005
Carolina Summer Reading Program Discussion Leader, UNC Chapel Hill, 2002-2003
Website Designer, Department of English, UNC Chapel Hill, 2001
Manager of Website and Information Resources, Writing Center, Walden University, 2015-2022
Editor and Coordinator of Web Content, Writing Center, Walden University, 2011-2015
Fiction Editor, Kartika Review, 2011-2012
Editorial Intern, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2004-2005
Research and Library Assistant, Program in Women’s Studies, Duke University, Summer 2005
Office Assistant, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 2003-2004
Lecture Series Organizer, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Eugene Lang College at New School University, New York, NY, 1999-2000
Instructor, Kaplan Test Prep Program (Law School Admission Test), New York, NY, 1999-2000
Last updated: May 2022