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I'm an interdisciplinary scholar, teacher and creative writer. My areas of interest are cultural studies, queer studies and LGBTQ history, Asian American and ethnic studies/literature, transpacific studies (US-Japan, primarily) and global Asias, and rhetoric/composition. I've published in American Studies, Journal of Asian American Studies, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, and elsewhere. As a lecturer, I've taught composition, interdisciplinary writing across the humanities and social sciences, Asian American literature, and cultural studies.

I published Ockham's Razor, a gay Mormon novel, in 2009. I'm currently at work on a queer (BL) political/ecofantasy novel.

My scholarly book project is titled Queer Liberal Humanism across the US-Japan Entanglement. Using the US-Japan or Nichibei relation as a case study, the book will analyze the intersection of racialization and queer exclusion/inclusion in order to better elucidate the workings of 19th- to 21st-century empire.

Scaffolding projects include a chapter entitled "Queer Histories of Colonial Modernity" for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of LGBTQ History.

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