
Department(s):
English and Modern Languages
Title(s):
Professor
Area of Expertise
Publications
Books
- 25 Events That Shaped Asian American History (2019)
- Asian American Culture: From Anime to Tiger Moms (2016)
- Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives: Essays on Theory, Strategy and Practice (2012)
- Mulanâ¿¿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)
- Reading Amy Tan (2009)
Recent Journal Articles and Book Chapters (since 2020)
- "Girlhood Reimagined: Malaka Gharib's Graphic Memoirs." Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, 2024.
- â¿¿Girl Gamers and Digital Activism in Doctorow and Wangâ¿¿s In Real Life.â¿¿ Co-authored with Tena L. Helton. The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, vol. 77, no. 2, 2023.
- â¿¿Multilingual and Multicultural Childhood: Robin Haâ¿¿s Almost American Girl.â¿¿ Journal of Literary Multilingualism, vol. 1, no. 2, 2023.
- â¿¿(Un)Masking a Chinese American Superhero: Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liewâ¿¿s The Shadow Hero.â¿¿ Beyond the Icon: Asian North American Graphic Narratives, edited by Eleanor Ty, Ohio State University Press, 2022. The collection won the 2023 Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize.
- â¿¿Mapping Social Differences in the Virtual Classroom: Inclusive Multimodal Texts and Learner-Centered Design.â¿¿ A Socially Just Classroom: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Writing across the Humanities, edited by Vuslat Katsanis and Kristin Coffey, Vernon Press, 2022.
- â¿¿History Meets Literary Imagination: The Making of a Twelfth-Century Woman Warrior.â¿¿ Womenâ¿¿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.
- â¿¿Maxine Hong Kingstonâ¿¿s The Woman Warrior: A Milestone in Asian American Literature.â¿¿ Asian American Literature in Transition: 1965-1996, edited by Asha Nadkarni and Cathy Schlund-Vials, Cambridge University Press, 2021. The collection was named the American Library Associationâ¿¿s Choice 2022 Outstanding Academic Title.
- â¿¿Drawing Childhood and Politics: Malik Sajadâ¿¿s Munnu A Boy from Kashmir.â¿¿ Studies in Comics, vol. 12, no. 1, 2021.
- â¿¿Drawing Histories, Documenting Experiences: Clement Baloupâ¿¿s Vietnamese Memories.â¿¿ Inks: The Journal of The Comics Studies Society, vol. 5, no. 3, 2021.
- â¿¿Ambiguity in Parallel: Visualizing History in Boxers and Saints.â¿¿ Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama, Oxford University Press, 2020.
Teaching
Asian American literature and culture
Children's and young adult literature
Comics and graphic narratives
Women writers
World literature