I am a scholar specializing in modern and contemporary Sinophone and Chinese diasporic narratives. Prior to joining DePauw University, I taught Chinese literature, culture, and language at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and Georgetown University.

My research investigates the impact of political, social, and medical crises on the production of knowledge and the representation of identity in global Chinese contexts. Drawing on methods from the humanities and social sciences, I engage transnational literary production, trauma and memory studies, digital and media studies, and medical humanities to examine the social inequities and systemic failures that crisis-driven narratives unpack.

I am currently working on my first monograph (Ohio State University Press), which probes critical history, the politics of ethnicity, diasporic subjectivity, and Chinese femininity. Alongside this book project, I am developing several studies on pandemic narratives across contemporary literature, film, and media.

In my free time, I enjoy bouldering at different climbing gyms and going for outdoor runs. I am now training for the 2026 SF Marathon.