Talks

Conference Presentations

Upcoming

“Cruising the Brown Commons with John Rechy and Dean Sameshima.” Modern Language Association. Los Angeles, CA.

“The Art of Falling Apart: Wreck, Repair, and Asian American Aesthetics.” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. Madison, WI. Upcoming. Convener/Presenter.

2025

“Flatness, Queer Negativity, and Dennis Cooper’s The Marbled Swarm.” American Studies Association. San Juan, PR. Convener/Presenter.

“The Melancholy of AIDS in Teiji Furuhashi’s Lovers.” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. Houston, TX.

“Deferred Action: Holding Off and Richard Fung’s Sea in the Blood.” Association for Asian American Studies. Boston, MA.

2024

“Deferred Action: Holding Off and Richard Fung’s Sea in the Blood.” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. New York, NY. Convener/Presenter.

2023

“Over the Edge of the Dirtied Bed.” American Studies Association. Montreal, QC.

“Patty Chang’s Thirst and the Autoerotic Minoritarian.” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. Seattle, WA.

“Over the Edge of the Dirtied Bed.” Association for Asian American Studies. Long Beach, CA.

2022

“Detail and an Asian/Americanist Reparative Position.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Online.

2020

Pen15 and the Awkward Angularity of Asian America.” American Comparative Literature Association (Accepted, canceled due to COVID-19)

2019

“Fatigued Relations, or Julius Eastman and the Space Exhaustion Makes.” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. College Park, MD.

“Can You Feel It?: The Sonics of Queer (Anti-)Relationality.” Midwest Graduate Music Consortium. Chicago, IL.

Roundtables

2024

“Disengage!: Toward an Ungrounded Asian/American Aesthetics.” American Studies Association. Baltimore, MD.

2022

“What’s Queer About Queering?: Queering and the End of the World.” National Women’s Studies Association. Minneapolis, MN.

Invited Talks

2023

Object Relations: Performance and Race at the Edge of Theory. Northwestern University. Evanston, IL.

Winter Graduate Student Symposium, School of Communication. Northwestern University. Evanston, IL.