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EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, 2008
M.A. Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, 2002
M.A. English Literature, Utah State University, 2001
B.A. Brigham Young University, 1997

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INTERESTS: Twentieth century literature and film; Asian American studies, technology and culture. 

My research and teaching focus on the intersections between international histories of technological innovation and the perceived difference of racial and cultural otherness.  My current book project, "Technology and America's Asia," examines the role of technological discourse in representations of Asian/American aesthetics in late-nineteenth and twentieth century film and literature. I argue that insofar as Anglo American modernism based its aesthetic innovations on a range of new technologies, it did so by throwing into question the relation of these technologies to the cultural traditions from which it seemed to break. It is from this vantage that Asia signaled both the perilous transnationalization of Western technologies as well as an especially therapeutic and non-alienated relation between technê and the environment.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

--“The Technê-Whim: Lin Yutang and the Invention of the Chinese Typewriter.” American Literature (2010): Forthcoming.

--“Global English Ideography and the Dissolve Translation in Hollywood Film.” Cultural Critique 72 Spring (2009)

--“Modernist Scandals: Ezra Pound’s Translations of ‘The’ Chinese Poem.” Orient and Orientalisms in American Poetry and Poetics. Ed. by Sabine Sielke and Christian Kloeckner. Frankfurt: Lang, 2009: 145-165.

--“‘I Like Machines’: Boris Artzybasheff’s Machine Aesthetic and the Ends of Cyborg Culture.” Technoculture: Special Issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities 23.1 (2007): 120-142.

--“Decolonizing Cathay: Teaching the Scandals of Translation through Angel Island Poetry.” Transformations: Special Issue on Teaching in Translation 17.2 (2007): 15-30.

--“‘Doing History’: Nuruddin Farah, Subaltern Studies, and the Postcolonial Trajectory of Silence.” Research in African Literatures 37.4 (2006): 161-176.

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: Introduction to American Literature; Asia in American Literature and Film; Literature and the Technologies of Modernity.