last updated 1/2025
BOOKS
Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation (Edinburgh UP 2023)
Body Facts (Diode Editions, 2021)
Pork Belly: Poems (in progress)
The 'Yellow' Nineteenth Century (in progress)
The Racialized Woman in Romanticism (in progress)
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
“‘A revolution is inevitable’: Robert Southey’s Orientalist Regeneration.” Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1800s, Ed. Andrew Stauffer, Cambridge UP. (forthcoming)
“‘The Lack of Coherence is a Powerful Disobedience’: A Conversation with Ocean Vuong.” Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) Journal (forthcoming)
“‘Humanity knows not of Sex’: William Blake’s Trans Futurity.” Studies in Romanticism, Volume 63, Number 4, Winter 2024, pp. 529-544
“Resisting Anti-Asian Racism in Public-Facing Work and Teaching.” Scholars in COVID Times, Publicly Engaged Scholars: Identities, Purposes, Practices, Eds. Scott Peters, Anna Sims Bartel, and Debra Castillo, Cornell UP 2023
"Orientalism and British Women Writers.” The Routledge Research Companion for Romantic Women Writers (2022)
“Orientalism Restated in the Era of COVID-19.” Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies, Volume 11, 2021
““One deep heart wrung!”: Felicia Hemans’s Affective Poetics in “The Indian City” and “Woman on the Field of Battle” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Spring 2022, Volume 18, Issue 1.
“Christian Conversion Through Racial Exclusion: The Oriental; or, Tung-Ngai San-Luk, the Second Chinese-Language Newspaper in the U.S.” American Periodicals 31.2
Byron's Cosmopolitan 'East.'" Essays in Romanticism 27.1 (2020).
"Romanticism, Orientalism, Orientation.” Keats-Shelley Journal: “200 Years, 50 Voices” Special Issue. Volume LXVIII (2019)
“Reflections: A Series of Digital Research Discoveries.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 33.1 (Fall 2020)
“Disorienting ‘Shapes’ in Shelley’s The Revolt of Islam.” Keats-Shelley Review: Special Issue on The Revolt of Islam: Texts, Subtexts, Contexts 32.2 (September 2018).
“Cross-Genre Modes in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh.” The Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies 5.2 (2017): 51-64.
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
"Upon Arrival: Making Family in the Korean and Dominican Diaspora.” AAxL: Asian American x Latinx Critical and Digital Studies, Fordham University, 2023.
“As a Korean American Professor, Here Is What I Think ‘The Chair’ Gets Right.” Truthout, September 19, 2021.
"The Paradox at the Heart of the Atlanta Spa Shootings and the Rise in Anti-Asian Hate." Shondaland, April 1, 2021.
"'Model Minority,' Still 'Other.'" Los Angeles Review of Books, Feb. 26, 2021.
“Orientalism in the Age of COVID-19.” Los Angeles Review of Books, March 24, 2020.
“The Precarity of the Asian American Body in the Era of COVID-19.” (May 2020)
Spark: Elevating Scholarship on Social Issues, The Online Magazine of the National Center for Institutional Diversity
BOOK REVIEWS
Reviewed Work: Deanna Koretsky’s Death Rights: Romantic Suicide, Race, and the Bounds of Liberalism. The Wordsworth Circle 54.4 (2023)
Reviewed Work: John Zilcosky’s Uncanny Encounters: Literature, Psychoanalysis, and the End of Alterity. European Legacy 22.5 (March 2017): 621-3.
Reviewed Work: Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric. The Journal, Spring 2015.
CREATIVE WRITING
"An 'Oriental' Jane Doe, "Assimilated or," and "Occupied." Singapore Unbound, 2022.
"Plunder." Pleiades: Literature in Context, Summer 2020.
"Hana," "Appa."The Hellebore, Fall 2018.
“The Department of Otolaryngology.” Burningword Literary Journal, April 2016.
“Note from St. Bernard de Clairvaux, Miami.” Soul-Lit: A Journal of Spiritual Poetry, Summer 2015.