Education, Teaching, and Research
Education
Brown University, Providence, RI, 2018-2024
Ph.D. in English Literature
Dissertation: Transpacific Vibrancy: Listening across Asian American and Chicanx Texts
Director: Daniel Y. Kim. Committee: Ralph Rodriguez, Ada Smailbegovic.
Defense: November 2024
Awards: The Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Research Grant
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 2014-2018
B.A., magna cum laude, in Classical Civilizations and English-Creative Writing
Honors Thesis: The Strangers of San-Something: Short Stories
Director: Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Honors and Awards: Phi Beta Kappa, Durant Scholar, Jerome A. Schiff Fellow
Teaching
Instructor of Record:
“Transpacific Bodies and Materialities,” Spring 2025
“American Misfits: Short Story Collections of Displacement,” Spring 2025
“Critical Reading and Writing I: The Academic Essay–Race and Public Memory,” Summer 2021
“Writing for College Admissions,” Brown University Pre-College Program, Summer 2021
“American Misfits: Short Story Collections of Marginalized US Subjects,” Spring 2021
Teaching Assistantships:
“Postcolonial Literature,” Fall 2024
“Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans,” National Education Equity Lab Fellowship, Spring 2023
“Harlem Renaissance: The Politics of Culture,” Spring 2023 Lectured on Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Langston Hughes, The Big Sea.
“Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans,” Winter 2022-2023
“How Literature Matters: Devils, Demons, and Do-Gooders,” Fall 2019 and Fall 2022
“Death and Dying in Black Literature,” Spring 2020
Invited Talks:
“Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck.” Wellesley College, November 6, 2023
“Short Narrative and Writing Trauma.” Wellesley College, February 27, 2023
“Adichie’s ‘The American Embassy’.” Wellesley College, April 11, 2022
Research in Progress
Vibrancies of Empire: Listening Across Asian American and Latinx Texts
Amphibiousness: Transpacific Bodies and Ecologies in Public Space