• Asian American literature and culture
• Children's and young adult literature
• Comics and graphic narratives
• Online teaching and learning
• Women writers

Books

• Reading Amy Tan (2009)
• Mulan’s Legend and Legacy in China and the United States (2010)
• Transnationalism and the Asian American Heroine: Essays on Literature, Film, Myth and Media (2010)
• Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives: Essays on Theory, Strategy and Practice (2012)
• Asian American Culture: From Anime to Tiger Moms (2016)
• 25 Events That Shaped Asian American History (2019)

Recent Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• “Girl Gamers and Digital Activism in Doctorow and Wang’s In Real Life,” co-authored with Tena L. Helton, The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 77.2 (2023): 155-73.
• “Multilingual and Multicultural Childhood: Robin Ha’s Almost American Girl,” Journal of Literary Multilingualism 1.2 (2023): 167-83
• “(Un)Masking a Chinese American Superhero: Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew’s The Shadow Hero,” in Asian North American Graphic Novels beyond the Icon, edited by Eleanor Ty, The Ohio State University Press, 2022. 189-207.
• “Mapping Social Differences in the Virtual Classroom: Inclusive Multimodal Texts and Learner-Centered Design,” in A Socially Just Classroom, edited by Vuslat Katsanis and Kristin Coffey, Vernon Press, 2022. 67-84.
• “History Meets Literary Imagination: The Making of a Twelfth-Century Woman Warrior,” in Women’s Lives: Self-Representation, Reception, and Appropriation in the Middle Ages, edited by Nahir I. Otano Gracia and Daniel Armenti. University of Wales Press, 2022. 173-87.
• “Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: A Milestone in Asian American Literature,” in Asian American Literature in Transition: 1965-1996, edited by Asha Nadkarni and Cathy Schlund-Vials. Cambridge University Press, 2021. 225-40.
• “Drawing Childhood and Politics: Malik Sajad’s Munnu A Boy from Kashmir,” Studies in Comics 12.1 (2021): 83-100.
• “Drawing Histories, Documenting Experiences: Clement Baloup’s Vietnamese Memories,” Inks: The Journal of The Comics Studies Society, 5.3 (2021): 261-77.
• “Ambiguity in Parallel: Visualizing History in Boxers and Saints,” in Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama. Oxford University Press, 2020. 293-307.