Associate Professor of the American Studies Program, Chair of the Asian American Studies Program
Education
M.A. New York University (2005)
Ph.D. New York University (2012)
M.F.A. Randolph College (2021)
Courses
Scholarship/Creative Work
Select Scholarly Publications
2018. A Nation on the Line: Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. (2020 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Social Sciences)
2017. “Mining the Mind: Emotional Extraction, Productivity, and Predictability in the Twenty-First Century,” Cultural Studies 31, Iss. 2-3; DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2017.1303426
2018. “Exceptionalism as a Way of Life: U.S. Empire, Filipino Subjectivity, and the Global Call Center Industry,” in Ethnographies of U.S. Empire. Carole McGranahan and John Collins, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 149-169.
2014. “Can You Hear Us Now? Ringtones and Politics in the Contemporary Philippines,”The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music and Sound Studies, Jason Stanyek and Sumanth Gopinath, eds. Vol. 1. New York: Oxford University Press, 359-381.
Select Other Publications
August 15, 2018 “Are Call Centers Rebranding the Philippines?” Zócalo Public Square (Web).
2014. “Queer Confessions: Transgression, Affect, and National Crisis in the Philippines’ Call Center Industry,” Queer Sites and Sounds,” exhibit, Center for Art + Thought (Web).
Literary Publications
October 2019. “Figuration in Renee Gladman’s Ravicka Quartet,” Construction (Web).
2019. “Parade Street,” Indiana Review 41.1 (Summer). (Runner-up, 1/2K Prize 2018)
Professional Affiliations
American Studies Association (ASA)
Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) (Current board member representing New England & Central and Eastern Canada)
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)
Current Committees
- Asian American Studies Program Advisory Committee, Chair
- Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Megamenu Social