Welcome! I am an Associate Professor of English at the University of Toledo. My research focuses on Romanticism, global Anglophone literature, Asian American literature, Korean American studies, and poetics.

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My scholarly monograph, Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), was shortlisted for the Marilyn Gaull Book Award and received an honorable mention for the BARS First Book Prize. It demonstrates how the modern lyric subject took shape through the invention of the “Oriental” subject. My next book project, Constructing Korea in English, traces the emergence of Korean writing in English across transpacific print networks from the fin de siècle through the early colonial era.

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I am also a poet and creative nonfiction writer. My work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, RHINO Poetry, Pleiades: Literature in Context, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. My debut poetry chapbook, Body Facts (Diode Editions 2021), was a finalist for an Ohioana Book Award. I am currently at work on two manuscripts: Pork Belly, a poetry collection, and Asian Fat, a memoir-in-essays.