Academic Appointments
2022 Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
2021 Consortium for Faculty Diversity Dissertation Fellow in English and Asian American Studies, Davidson College
Education
2021 Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California; Certificates in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Visual Studies
B.A. High Honors in Politics and International Relations, Scripps College
Publications
Peer Reviewed
2022 With Keva X. Bui, eds. “Materialities of Empire in a More-Than-Human World.” Verge: Studies in Global Asia (Special Issue on “Visualizing Asias”). 8.2 (2022): 65–68.
2022. “The Matters of Coolie (In)humanity.” Published as part of the field trip feature, “Materialities of Empire in a More-Than-Human World.” Verge: Studies in Global Asias 8.2 (2022): 84–89.
2022 “Transpacific Toxicity: Seadrift, Ecological Aesthetics, and the Afterlives of US Militarism.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 29, no. 2 (2022): 236-247.
2022 “Craig Santos Perez’s Poetics of Multispecies Kinship: Challenging Militarism and Extinction in the Pacific.” Atlantic Studies: Global Currents 19, no. 4 (2022): 1–16.
2021 “Militarized Sustainability: Feminist Refugee Memory and Hydropower in the Mekong Delta." Verge: Studies in Global Asias 7, no. 1 (2021): 119-46.
Edited Volumes
2021 Empire and Environment: Confronting Ecological Ruin in Asia-Pacific and the Americas. Eds. Jeffrey Santa Ana, Heidi Amin-Hong, Rina Garcia Chua, and Xiaojing Zhou, University of Michigan Press, 2022.
Select Fellowships and Awards
2020-22 Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellowship
2014-20 USC Provost’s Graduate School Fellowship
2020 USC Provost’s Research Grant
2019 Association for Literature and the Environment Best Graduate Paper Award
2019 USC Graduate School Summer Research Grant
2018-20 Center for Transpacific Studies Summer Research Grant
2018-20 Asian Pacific Alumni Association Distinguished Scholar Award
2018-19 USC Graduate School Endowed Fellowship
2015 Foreign Languages and Area Studies Award
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