Scholarship

Critical Perspectives on Chitra Divakaruni: Feminism and Diaspora. Coeditor, with Amritjit Singh and Robin Field. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (imprint of Rowman & Littlefield), 2022.

 

“Narrating War: Arab and Muslim American Aesthetics.” Cambridge History of Asian American Literature. Ed. Rajini Srikanth and Min Song. Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge UP, Dec. 2015. Print.

 

“Whiteness and the Soldier-Speaker in Brian Turner’s Here, Bullet.” Rocky Mountain Review 65.1 (Spring 2011): 56-78. Print. 20+ citations.

 

“Naomi Shihab Nye’s Aesthetic of Smallness and the Military Sublime.” Multiethnic Poetics. Ed. Meta D. Jones and Keith Leonard. Spec. issue of MELUS 35.2 (2010): 151-71. Print.
30+ citations.

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“Decolonizing the Bildungsroman: Narratives of War and Womanhood in Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman.” Form and Confrontation in Asian American Literature.  Ed. Zhou Xiaoing and Samina Najmi. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2005. Print. 20+ citations.

 

Form and Confrontation in Asian American Literature. Coeditor, with Zhou Xiaojing. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2005. Print. Collection of critical essays on Asian American appropriations and transformations of mainstream literary genres and discursive strategies.

 

White Women in Racialized Spaces: Imaginative Transformation and Ethical Action in Literature. Coeditor and Introduction, with Rajini Srikanth. Albany: SUNY P, 2002. Print. Critical essays on historical and literary representations of white women’s interactions with people of color globally, and the political and ethical ramifications of their relations. 

 

“White Woman in Asia: Racial Fluidity as Rebellion in Onoto Watanna’s The Heart of Hyacinth.”  Literary Studies East and West: Re-placing America. Ed. Ruth Hsu, et al.  Honolulu: U of Hawaii P and East-West Center, 2000.  82-91. Print.

 

The Heart of Hyacinth. By Onoto Watanna. Editor and Introduction. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2000. Print. Reissue of a 1903 novel by Asian America’s first novelist.

 

“Janet, Polly, and Olivia: Constructs of Blackness and White Femininity in Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition.” Southern Literary Journal xxxii: 1 (Fall 1999): 1-19. Print. 20+ citations.

 

“Asian Men and White Women in the Works of Carlos Bulosan and Sui Sin Far.” International Perspectives on English Studies, American Studies, and Cultural Studies in Asia in the ‘Pacific Era.’” Ed. Amporn Srisermbhok. Bangkok: Srinakharinwirot UP, 1998. Print.