discipline / field statement

literary +
cultural
studies

Asian
Canadian
studies

trauma +
memory
studies

Global
Asia
studies

I work at the intersections of literary and cultural studies, trauma and memory studies, Asian Canadian studies, and Global Asia studies.

I draw on a range of methods—from close reading and archival research, to ethnography, interviews, and oral histories—to explore how Asian Canadian communities remember, represent, and reckon with historical injustice and the complex politics of loss.