My current research and teaching explore the dynamic interplay of intellectual history, aesthetic forms, and ethnic histories in twentieth-century sinophone Asia, using minor genres such as life-writing (e.g., diaries, autobiographical fiction), reportage, and dissertations.
Dissertation Title: Minor-Peninsular Genres; or, Genealogies of Cold War Chinese-Malayan Writink
Workshops: Art and Politics of East Asia Workshop
Subject Areas/Research Clusters/Field of Study: Asian and Southeast Asian studies
Research interests: Transnational and diasporic Asian intellectual history; global Chinese literature; philosophical aesthetics; East/West comparative poetics; media and modernity in China and Southeast Asia
Teaching Experience:
Readings in World Literature: Epic Poetry (Instructor, Fall 2017)
Intro to Comp Lit: Aesthetics and Politics in Southeast Asian Fictions (Instructor, Winter 2014)
Intro to East Asian Civ: Korea (Teaching Assistant, Spring 2015)
History and Theory of Drama I (Teaching Assistant, Fall 2014)
Intro to East Asian Civ: Vietnam (Teaching Assistant, Spring 2013)
Elementary Modern Chinese (Language Assistant, Spring 2013)
Education BA in Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University, 2011
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