Academic Profile : Faculty
Before joining NTU as an Assistant Professor in English, I received my PhD from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. My research thinks through media technologies, critical race and decolonial theory, and contemporary poetry, with a special focus on social media. In particular, the relationship between technology, cultural forms, and diasporic formations intrigues me, and I am fascinated by how such forces have historically and presently (re)shaped our globe.
My creative non-academic work ranges from creative non-fiction and short fiction to poetry. In 2016, I co-edited an anthology of experimental short fiction (this is how you walk on the moon, Ethos Books), and in 2024 I released a poetry collection titled https://everything.is (2024, AJAR Press) which was published in both English and Vietnamese through translation.
Outside of literature, I am also enthusiastic about incorporating ambient sound design, songwriting, and live musical performance into my creative practice. I am less enthusiastic about my lifelong Manchester United fandom, which is actively painful at this point.
My creative non-academic work ranges from creative non-fiction and short fiction to poetry. In 2016, I co-edited an anthology of experimental short fiction (this is how you walk on the moon, Ethos Books), and in 2024 I released a poetry collection titled https://everything.is (2024, AJAR Press) which was published in both English and Vietnamese through translation.
Outside of literature, I am also enthusiastic about incorporating ambient sound design, songwriting, and live musical performance into my creative practice. I am less enthusiastic about my lifelong Manchester United fandom, which is actively painful at this point.
contemporary poetry, decolonial theory, social media, media theory, book history, internet, experimental literature
- The Lyric Selfie: examining the impact of social media on contemporary Anglophone poetry between Asia and North America
Courses Taught
Asian-American Literature
Approaches to Literature
Approaches to Literature
Supervision of PhD Students
Zeng Yu, "Constructing an Alternative Temporality: Memory, Identity, and National Belonging in Indian Anglophone Writing in the 1980s"