Chinese literature Sinophone literature Cold War Transpacific
I received my degree in modern Chinese and Sinophone literature from UCLA. My work straddles a number of different fields, modern Chinese literature, Asian/American literature, and transnational Asia more broadly.
While my main specialization is in work written in the Chinese language, although not necessarily limited to China, I have broader interests in and would be willing to advise graduate students working on cultural production in Asia more generally.
Some of my former MA students are pursuing PhDs at University of Southern California and Harvard University. I would welcome students who wish to pursue a career outside of the academy.
Here are some examples of projects I have supervised:
High Tension: Reconceptualizing Interiority in the Works of Qiu Miaojin and Wu Ming-yi
Modern Chinese literature, Sinophone literature, Sinophone film, transpacific studies, world literature, Taiwanese literature, Hong Kong literature, Cold War studies
My first book, Rethinking the Modern Chinese Canon, looks at the global connections of canonical modern Chinese literature through translation and migration. See the New Books in East Asian studies podcast where I give an overview of the book. I also wrote about some of the research I did for the book in a short essay "Transpacific Search Party or How To (Not) Find Yu Dafu's Remains" for the Commentary board of Critical Asian Studies.
I teach classes in modern Chinese literature, Taiwanese literature, Chinese, Taiwanese, and Hong Kong cinemas, queer Sinophone literature and film, colonial and postcolonial East Asia
I am not accepting graduate students for the 2022-23 academic year.
The development of modernity in modern and contemporary China, Taiwan, and/or Hong Kong and its influence on literature, cinema, visual culture and/or popular culture.
Fall Term 2021Chinese literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. Note: Not open to students with credit in CHINA 322. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and *3 in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of Department.
Winter Term 2022Culture and identity in Hong Kong through the study of literature and film in translation. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and *3 in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of Department.
Winter Term 2022May be repeated for credit when course content differs. May involve discussions in Chinese. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 AND *3 in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of the Department.
Fall Term 2021May be repeated for credit when course content differs. Prerequisite: Consent of Department.
Fall Term 2021 Winter Term 2022