APPOINTMENTS

2024-present Queen of Fuck Institutional Jobs

2023 Scholar/Artist/Activist in Residence, FLOURISH: Community-Engaged Arts and Social Wellness, University of Toronto Scarborough

2020-2022 Lecturer, Disability Studies, Georgetown University

2019-2021 Scholar/Artist/Activist in Residence in Disability Studies, Georgetown University

2016-Present Managing editor, The Asian American Literary Review (AALR)

2018-2021 Contingent Faculty Representative, Board of Directors, Association for Asian American Studies

2018 Lecturer, Dept of American Studies, University of Maryland Baltimore County

2009-2017 Visiting Assistant Professor & Lecturer, Asian American Studies and Religious Studies Programs, University of Maryland

PUBLICATIONS

Books

2024 dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss, Duke University Press. Winner of the Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award.

Edited Collections/Curated Projects

2016/2019 “Open in Emergency, Second Edition: A Special Issue on Asian American Mental Health,” The Asian American Literary Review 10, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2019); “Open in Emergency: A Special Issue on Asian American Mental Health,” The Asian American Literary Review 7, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2016).

2018 Co-editor with Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, “Book of Curses,” The Asian American Literary Review vol. 9, no.1 (Spring/Summer 2018).

Articles/Essays

2023 “Writing While Adjunct: A Contingent Pedagogy of Unwellness.” In Crip Authorship: Disability as Method, edited by Rebecca Sanchez and Mara Mills, NYU Press.

2021 “Making Mental Health through Open in Emergency: A Journey and Manifesto.” In special issue “Crip Temporalities,” edited by Ellen Samuels and Elizabeth Freeman. South Atlantic Quarterly 120 no. 2 (April).

2021 “Open in Emergency: Queering Asian American Mental Health.” In Q & A:Voices from Queer Asian North America, edited by Martin F. Manalansan, Alice Y. Hom and Kale B. Fajardo. Temple University Press.

2020 “Where the History Books End: Religion and Vietnamese America in the Afterlife of the Vietnam War.” In Asian American Religions in the 21st Century, edited by David Yoo and Khyati Joshi. University of Hawaii Press.

2019 “This Love and Its Labors.” Hyphen Magazine (June).

2016 “(Un)Making Mothers, Orphans, and Transnational Adoptees: The Afterlife of the Vietnam War in Aimee Phan's We Should Never Meet.” In Critical Theology Against U.S. Militarism in Asia: Decolonization and Deimperialization, edited by Anne Joh and Nami Kim. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

2015 “Teaching to Care.” Powerlines 3, no. 1.

2014 “Critical Feeling.” Forum for Theological Education.

2014 “What It Means to Love Mothers.” Briarpatch Magazine (July/August).

2014 “Living and Writing in the Face of Violence.” Black Girl Dangerous.

2013 “Secrets.” Black Girl Dangerous.

2013 “Living Under Siege.” Black Girl Dangerous.

2013 “Postpartum Depression: On Motherhood, Academia, and Mental Health.” The Professor Is In.

INVITED TALKS

2024
University of California Irvine
University of California Santa Barbara
Diversity, Decolonization, and the German Curriculum (DDGC) (conference keynote)
University of Pittsburgh
University of British Columbia
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Ford Foundation
Northeastern Illinois University
Oakton Community College
DePaul University
American University
George Washington University

2023
Pomona College
Cornell University
Georgetown University
Queens College CUNY
American University
University of Wisconsin at Eau-Claire
University of California Los Angeles
Thinking Its Presence
Charles B. Wang Community Health Center
University of California Santa Barbara

2022
Georgetown University
Colorado College
University of California Santa Barbara
University of California Irvine
University of Toronto
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Northwestern University
Hiram College
Brooklyn College
New York University
Barnard College
University of California Los Angeles
Washington University at St Louis
Connecticut College
Pomona College
Kundiman
Alpha Sigma Nu Honor Society

2021
Georgetown University
Lambda Literary
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
GYOPO
Chicagoland Asian American Therapists
Ford Foundation
University of California San Diego
University of California Los Angeles
Williams College
University of California Irvine
University of Virginia
Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network
Harvard University
University of Pennsylvania

2020
Georgetown University
University of Connecticut, Storrs
University of Kansas
University of Maryland
Mid-Atlantic Union of Vietnamese Student Association
University of California Irvine

2019
Smith College
Mental Health America
Ford Foundation
University of Chicago
Georgetown University
University of Illinois Chicago
American Studies Association Conference
Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN)
University of Connecticut, East of California Asian American Studies Summit
Ohio State University
Harvard University

2018
Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia
Princeton University
Minority Mental Health Awareness Summit, Birmingham
Center for Refugee Poetics, Philadelphia
University of California Berkeley
Ohio State University + Society for Disability Studies
Vanderbilt University
Naval Academy
Amherst College
Richmond Area Multi-Services, Inc. (RAMS), San Francisco
Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco
University of California Irvine

2017
Colgate University
Georgetown University
Yale University
Center for Fiction
University of Minnesota
California State University Fullerton,
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
NAPAWF*New York City and Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University
Smithsonian Asian American Literature Festival
Baltimore Asian Resistance in Solidarity
University of California Santa Barbara
University of California Irvine
University of California San Diego
Association for Asian American Studies
University of Michigan
TEDxUMD

2016
University of Pennsylvania
Minority Mental Health Awareness Summit
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Womyn Initiative, University of Maryland
DC Dept. of Behavioral Health Summit on Evidence-Based Programs for Children, Youth, and Families