Books

• Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation (Edinburgh University Press, 2023)

• Body Facts (Diode Editions, 2021)

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Selected Scholarship

• “Epistolarity and Futurity in The Woman of Colour.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction. Volume 38, Number 1, pp. 19-38.

• “‘A revolution is inevitable’: Robert Southey’s Orientalist Regeneration.” Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1800s, Ed. Andrew Stauffer, (Cambridge UP 2026)

• “‘The Lack of Coherence Is a Powerful Disobedience’: A Conversation with Ocean Vuong.” MELUS 50.3 (2025).

• “‘Humanity Knows Not of Sex’: William Blake’s Trans Futurity.” Studies in Romanticism 63.4 (2024).

• “Resisting Anti-Asian Racism in Public-Facing Work and Teaching.” Scholars in COVID Times (Cornell University Press, 2023).

• “Orientalism and British Women Writers.” The Routledge Research Companion to Romantic Women Writers (2022).

 

Selected Poetry and Creative Nonfiction

• “The Mirror and the Knife: On Beauty, Birth, and the Body’s Invention.” The Kenyon Review. Forthcoming.

• “North Korean, Wrapped in Plastic Foam, Floats to Freedom in the South.” RHINO Poetry (2026).

• “Gohyang,” “Pork Belly,” “Asian Fishing,” and “Susurrus.” Sixty Inches from Center (2025).

• “An ‘Oriental’ Jane Doe,” “Assimilation or,” and “Occupied.” SUSPECT (2022).

• “Plunder.” Pleiades: Literature in Context 40.2 (2020).

 

Selected Public Writing

• “Upon Arrival: Making Family in the Korean and Dominican Diaspora.” 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.

• “‘Model Minority,’ Still ‘Other.’” Los Angeles Review of Books, February 26, 2021.

• “Orientalism in the Age of COVID-19.” Los Angeles Review of Books, March 24, 2020.