Projects

Walden University Writing Center's website

As the manager of website and information resources, I maintain the Writing Center's website. I helped reorganize the website during a CMS platform transition and built the current site in LibGuides. I led center-wise staff discussions on content organization, web publishing workflow, and website design. The website had always been envisioned as an open educational resource, and I helped clarify that aspect through Creative Commons licensing. In maintaining the site, I focus on the collaborative nature of publishing instructional materials on the site, versioning of content, and accessibility for differently-abled users.

Primary platforms and standards: LibGuides, SharePoint (to host internal communications), Adobe Connect (for online meetings), W3C

Dog Park Research

I have co-taught an Aquinas Honors Seminar with my friend, Dr. Maria Dahmus, on dogs, the environment, and society. Students always conduct some form of secondary and primary research with a presentation component. In the first iteration of the class, students created individual research posters. In the second, students collaborated on their research and also presented their findings on a website. Class instruction included not just interview-based research methods but also some guidance on using a simple website builder.

Primary platform: WordPress.

Circle for Asian American Literary Studies

I joined this scholarly society almost a decade ago and served as an executive board member, secretary-treasurer, and webmaster. I set up a simple website to share information and registered a domain name for the organization as well as a Facebook group.

Primary platforms: DreamHost and WordPress.

Asian American Literature Fans

Literary scholar Stephen Hong Sohn asked me to join him on an informal blog to share reviews and comments on Asian American literature. The site has engaged a handful of other reviewers and grown to include an index of reviews and social media presences. The project is in part a discovery one--to identify as many books by Asian American authors as possible and to link them through the blog and in the catalog.

Primary platforms: LiveJournal community, LibraryThing catalog, Twitter, Facebook

Kartika Review

This literary journal was active from 2007-2013, and I served as fiction editor and editor-at-large in 2011-2012. I helped maintain the website and upload PDFs, images, and table of contents text to the site for new issues. The website was hacked in 2013, and the journal went on hiatus as a result. I revived the journal in 2017 and relaunched the website using simple a Bootstrap-based design.

Primary platforms: Lulu.com (self-publishing service), Dreamhost, Submittable (submissions management), Issu (online PDF viewer), Google Drive (document storage and publishing workflow), PeachyHost (former host), Wordpress (former design platform)

Cultural Heritage, Archives, Libraries, and Information Studies

CHALIS is a special interest group for members of the Association for Asian American Studies. I co-founded this group to bring together staff and scholars in related fields of information studies to foster more conversations about how librarians, archivists, curators, and other cultural heritage workers could engage with scholars in the field. Although I did not create the website for this group, I did set up a Google Group email discussion list.

Primary platforms: Google Groups and Google Sites

Archives Committee of the Association for Asian American Studies

In part as an outgrowth of my work in CHALIS, I was invited along with the current co-chairs of CHALIS to guide AAAS in its work with a relatively-new archive. As specialists in libraries and archives, we are working with the board members of AAAS to come up with a deed of gift for organizational papers going into the Pacific Northwest Archives at the University of Washington in Seattle. We are also discussing with the board how to approach records management for regular deposits to the organizational archive, what kinds of digitization projects would be appropriate, and what materials (ephemera in particular) might be worth collecting from the organization for archival purposes.

Whole Person Librarianship

This project is a collaborative blog helping to define a new ethos of librarianship that centers of seeing the whole person in each patron. The approach focuses on partnerships with professionals from allied fields, particularly social work, as a way of expanding and deepening the impact of librarians on the lives of patrons. The blog features interviews, research article reviews, and general discussions on the topic.

Primary platform: WordPress.

Southeast Asian Digital Archives at University of Massachusetts in Lowell

This project is in the works by Dr. Sue Kim and others at the Center for Asian American Studies and the libraries at UMass-Lowell. My role included consultations on the grant proposal narrative to clarify the technical aspects of the proposed digital archives, particularly regarding metadata standards and their compatibility with the digital repository.

Primary platforms and standards: Encoded Archival Description (EAD), Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS), Dublin Core, and Omeka

Asian American Literature Division of Modern Language Association

I served as an executive committee member for this division for a 5-year term. In addition to the usual business of organizing panels for the annual convention, I took the opportunity to advance the newly-created MLA discussion forums for scholars in the subfield and to discuss the implications of increased open access publishing by the scholarly organization. I also encouraged scholars to submit proposals (to be vetted by the division's executive committee) for teaching volumes in the MLA publishing series. There are currently two such projects in the works.

Modern Fiction Studies special issue

I co-edited "Theorizing Asian American Fiction," a special issue of this scholarly, peer-reviewed journal. My role involved crafting the call for papers, working with the editor of the journal to secure a special issue, reading submissions and choosing articles for revision and publication through discussions with my co-editors, and then working with the authors and the journal's staff to prepare manuscripts for publication. I wanted to think about the circulation of ideas in this issue as well, so I also organized a panel at the Modern Language Association's annual convention upon publication of the special issue to feature a few of the authors and to showcase the issue for the scholarly public.

American Quarterly special issue

I co-edited "Alternative Contact: Globalism, Indigeneity, and American Studies," a special issue of this scholarly, peer-reviewed journal. My role included the usual work of editing such a special issue. This particular project was an important culmination--a temporary resting point--for a conversation started at an American Studies Association conference with three interlinked panels on the topic of alternative contact that I organized. Based on the enthusiasm of participants in the conversations of those panels, my colleague and I pitched the issue to American Quarterly, and the editor worked with us to publish a set of articles in the journal and then eventually in book version as well (something the journal does with each special issue).