EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Florida, Gainesville, In Progress, Department of English
M.A., University of Florida, Gainesville, 2023, Department of English
B.A., University of Florida, Gainesville, 2018, Department of English; Minor in Anthropology
AWARDS
2024 Excellence in Teaching Award for “Asian American Identities” Special Topics Course, Department of English, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, April 29.
PUBLICATIONS
Book Reviews
2023 Review of Messy Roots: Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao, in Women Write About Comics
2022 Review of Understanding China Through Comics (Vol. 1-4) by Jing Liu, in ImageTexT 13.3
Works in Progress
2025 (Article under peer review) “Graphic Memoirs as Memory Work in GB Tran’s Vietnamerica and Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do.”
PRESENTATIONS
Invited
2025
Invited Talk on “The Best We Could Do,” for Dr. Margaret Galvan’s graduate proseminar: American Women in Comics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, March 26.
2024
Invited Talk, on Laura Gao’s “Messy Roots: Memoir of a Wuhanese American,” for Dr. Margaret Galvan’s upper-division undergraduate course, Seeing Differently: Comics and Identity University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, November 12.
Invited Talk, “What Are You Working On?,” Department of English Orientation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, August 6.
Conferences
2025
“Fragmented and Fluid: Queer Asian American Identity and Interactive Storytelling in Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American,” Children’s Literature Association Annual Conference, Virtual, June 9-14.
“Unspoken Identity: Biracial Queer North American Asians in Mariko Tamaki's Skim and Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me,” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Boston, MA, April 17-19.
2024
“The Wuhan I Knew”: Queer Diasporic Identity in Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American,” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, April 25-27.
Moderator, “Manga and the Child,” panel with Brandon Murakami, Taylor Morris, and Aditi Basu, University of Florida Graduate Comics Organization Conference, Gainesville, FL, April 5-7.
“Biracial and Queer Asian North American Representation in Mariko Tamaki’s Skim and Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me,” University of Florida Graduate Comics Organization Conference, Gainesville, FL, April 5-7.
2023
“Translating Korean American Identity for Children in Where’s Halmoni?” on the “Recentering Asian/American Perspectives on Youth Literature: From Multicultural Representation to Geopolitical Critique” panel, Children’s Literature Association Annual Conference, Bellevue, WA, June 15-17.
Moderator, “Cultural Studies,” panel with Geo Sipp, Brandon Murakami, and Matt Crotts, University of Florida Graduate Comics Organization Conference, Gainesville, FL, April 15.
2022
“Putting Down Roots as a Korean American Immigrant Child in My Tree,” Children’s Literature Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, June 2-4.
“Asian American Cultural Rhetorics” on the “Cultural Rhetorics Pedagogy” roundtable, University Writing Program Pedagogy, Practice, and Philosophy Conference, Virtual on Zoom, February 4-5.
2021
“Picturing Evaluation Arguments in Janet S. Wong’s Apple Pie, 4th of July” on the
“Picturing Children’s Literature in ENC1101” roundtable, University Writing Program Pedagogy, Practice, and Philosophy Conference, Virtual on Zoom, February 5-6.
Workshops
2023
Invited Talk/Workshop Facilitator, “Graphic Novels in Global Context: Social Justice Through Illustration and Text with George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy,” Global Issues Through Literature (GILS) Educator Workshop, The Global Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh, Virtual on Zoom, Feb 16.
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
ImageTexT Journal, University of Florida
2022-2023, Book Reviews Editor
2020-2023, Style Editor
Peer Review
The Lion and the Unicorn
ImageTexT Journal
COURSES TAUGHT
University of Florida, Department of English, devised and taught:
Literature for the Young Child (Fall 2025)
Film Analysis (Fall 2024, Spring 2025)
Introduction to Literature (Spring 2024)
Special Topics Course: Asian American Identities (Fall 2023)
Survey of American Literature: Marginalized Voices in America (Fall 2022)
University of Florida, University Writing Program
Research and Writing in the Academic Disciplines, Instructor of record, (Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, 2023)
Professional Communication for Engineers (Spring 2021)
Expository and Argumentative Writing (Fall 2020)
SERVICE AND ORGANIZATIONS
Graduate Comics Organization, University of Florida
2023-2024, President
2022-2023, Vice President