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I'm a scholar, lecturer, and creative writer.  My research fields are queer studies, Asian American and ethnic studies, transpacific studies (primarily US-Japan), and cultural studies.

My research examines how queer history, cultural nationalism, and empire intersect across the transpacific. My scholarly work has been featured in American Studies, Journal of Asian American Studies, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. Notably, I also contributed the chapter “Queer Histories of Colonial Modernity” to 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.

For my creative writing, I'm currently at work on a Boys' Love-style political/eco-fantasy novel. I published a queer Mormon novel, Ockham's Razor, in 2009. 

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 transpacific racialization and queer exclusion/inclusion in order to better elucidate the workings of 19th- to 21st-century empire.

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