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I'm a scholar, lecturer, and creative writer.

Broadly, my research examines how queerness, race, and empire intersect across transpacific and comparative contexts. I contributed the chapter “Queer Histories of Colonial Modernity” to the Oxford Handbook of LGBTQ History (forthcoming, 2027).

More particularly, I have investigated W. E. B Du Bois' pan-Asianism, Queer Asian America (Japanese America, especially), the yaoi/Boys' Love genre in East Asia, and Queer Mormonism. My publications have appeared in American Studies, Journal of Asian American Studies, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 

As a lecturer, I've taught composition, interdisciplinary writing, Asian American literature, and cultural studies.

In my creative writing, I'm currently working 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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