I am an Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and hold a Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity from the University of Southern California. From 2022-2023, I was a DISCO Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan’s Digital Studies Institute.

I research and teach why race matters in digital culture, an inquiry I pursue through the lens of Asian American literature, art, and media. Across my different projects, I pay attention to how racial narratives, fictions, and tropes shape—and are shaped by—the world of information capitalism. These questions have taken me to many fields, including Asian American literary and cultural studies, media and digital studies, and game studies.

I also write poetry. My poems appear in Poetry, Sewanee Review, A Public Space, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. They have also been featured on Poetry Daily. I published the chapbook Sandman (Diode Editions, 2022).