Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toledo. Prior to this, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Boston University's Kilachand Honors College and held teaching positions at Ohio State and UT-Austin. My research focuses on global Anglophone literature with a focus on Romanticism, Asian American studies, poetics, and visuality. My scholarly monograph, Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation (Edinburgh UP 2023), identifies a new mode of cultural production, what I deem a “poetics of orientation,” in nineteenth-century Romantic literature. This “poetics of orientation” demonstrates how the construction of the modern lyric subject germinated through the invention of the “Oriental” subject. My next book project, The Yellow Nineteenth Century, traces Asian American textual and visual representations from the nineteenth century to the present day. I analyze the textual and synthetic nature of Asian and Asian American representations to argue for the objectifying logics of yellowness as a central trope in Anglophone conceptions of Asian personhood. A poet as well as a literary critic, my award-winning debut book of poems, Body Facts, was released by Diode Editions in 2021.