Writing
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Racial Disintegration: Biomedical Futurity at the Environmental Limit.” American Literature 93.3 (September 2021): 497-523.
Web/Other
“On Resisting Extinction.” Verge: Studies in Global Asias 5.2 (Forgetting Wars): 99-106.
“Rematerializations of Race.” Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association 6.1 (May 2017).
molecular Race
A book-length study about scientific discourse and experimental literary form in Asian American literature, 1965-present.
How does contemporary Asian American literature experiment with the terms of racial representation? Activating both valences of the word—literary-formal and scientific—Molecular Race examines post-1965 works that engage science thematically and formally to challenge the lay perception of race as a biological trait of an individual human. Through readings of contemporary fiction, poetry, and science fiction, this book project works through scientific paradigms such as quantum physics, genetic engineering, phylogeny and ontogeny, and elemental chemistry to develop reading practices de-centered from domestic realism and the individual racialized character. What is revealed is that not only is the nexus of race and science not reducible to scientific racism, but also that science can be an unlikely creative reservoir for Asian American writers that allows for racial representation beyond individual narratives of assimilation and resistance.
Work from this book project has appeared in the Journal of Asian American Studies and Amerasia.
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I am also at work on pieces of my second project regarding biomedicine and Asian American racial formation.