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I'm a scholar, lecturer and creative writer. My areas of interest are queer studies and LGBTQ history, Asian American and ethnic studies/literature, transpacific studies (US-Japan, primarily) and global Asias, and rhetoric/composition.

My scholarly writing includes articles in American Studies, Journal of Asian American Studies, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. My contributions to edited collections include, notably, a chapter titled "Queer Histories of Colonial Modernity" for The Oxford Handbook of LGBTQ History (forthcoming).

As a lecturer, I've taught composition, interdisciplinary writing across the humanities and social sciences, Asian American literature, and cultural studies.

My creative writing includes Ockham's Razor (2009), a gay Mormon novel. I'm currently at work on a queer (Boys' Love-style) political/ecofantasy novel.

My scholarly book project under development 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.

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