Faculty (Alphabetical) --- Faculty (by Research Interest)
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Education: PhD (University of Oregon), BA summa cum laude (Louisiana State University)
Recent Courses:
- Comparative African American and Asian American Literatures
- Science, Fiction, and Race
- Disaster Fiction and Film
- Introduction to Critical Theory
- Literature Since 1900
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Areas of Specialization:
20th–century American literature; ethnic American literature; speculative fiction; critical race studies; globalization.
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Other Interests / Recent Undertakings:
- Comfort Women and the Problem of Human Rights, Presentation at a SSHRC-sponsored workshop entitled "Museum Openings: Caring for Difficult Knowledge," to coincide with the opening of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
- Recent publications include articles on race, speculative fiction, and futurity in MELUS, LIT, Extrapolation, American Studies, and Critique
- Co-wrote and published two articles on collaborative resistance and public humanities
- Currently writing a book-length project on disaster narratives and racial formation
- Coordinator, Queer Biopolitics Research Cluster (faculty-student research group sponsored by the University of Manitoba's Institute for the Humanities)
- Freelance translator/interpreter of Korean-English
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