Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Areas of Interest
- Comparative Racialization
- History of Interracial Solidarity Movements
- Comparative Empires Between Japan and the U.S.
- Multi-Ethnic Literature in the U.S.
Biography
I am completing a dissertation on the intersections of American Orientalism and ethnic/minority espousal of Japanese imperialism in the novels of minority American writers from the 1970s to the 1990s. Because of Japan's history of imperialism and its later alliance with and subordination to the U.S. at the end of the twentieth century, minority orientations toward Japan may render Japan legible as the supine Orient, as a site of non-white power and kinship (Yellow Power), or as a threat to American citizenry (Yellow Peril). My dissertation argues that orientations toward Japan that reckons with its imperial and postwar contexts and histories bring about ambivalence and illegibility. I explore the possibilities of this illegibility as an alternative relation to Japan that is decentered from power.
List of Publications
Book Review: Kyle Wanberg, Maps of Empire: A Topography of World Literature. University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 91, no. 3, 2022, pp. 415-416.