San Francisco State University

Faculty Member, Asian American Studies

Other Affiliations: California Faculty Association, SFSU

Assistant Professor

Ethnic Studies

About

Current projects:
War Baby | Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art (anthology co-edited with Laura Kina; forthcoming, Univ. of Washington Press, 2013) http://cci.sfsu.edu/taxonomy/term/102

Special Issue of Asian American Literature: Discourses and Pedagogies: Mixed Heritage Asian American Literatures: http://onlinejournals.sjsu.edu/index.php/AALDP/index

Areas of Research: Critical Mixed Race Studies, Asian American literature, Asian Americans of mixed heritage, queer Asian American literature and culture, Asian American art and culture, and composition.

Courses: AAS 206: Intro to Asian American Literature, AAS 214: Asian American Composition, AAS 550: Asian Americans of Mixed Heritage, ETHS 210: Intro to Asian American Culture, and ETHS 300: Writing as Empowerment in Ethnic Studies

Campus Service:
CFA President-SFSU, member of the Baccalaureate Requirements Committee, head of the Ethnic Studies GWAR Task Force, co-Chair of the Committee on writing in Ethnic Studies, past Vice Chair of the Academic Senate, past Senate Secretary, past Chair of the Academic Policies Committee, past Chair of the Library Advisory Committee, past member of the Graduation Requirements Task Force, past member of the Committee on Written English Proficiency, etc.

Community Service:
Former Board Member of the Asian American Theater Company (2000-2010; President 2000-2002), Former Board member iPride (former President), currently on the advisory boards of AATC, Kearny Street Workshop and AAWAA.

Helped found the FUSION Summer Program for Mixed Heritage Youth.

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