EDUCATION
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), New York, NY
Ph.D in English and Women’s Studies Certificate, 2014
Dissertation: Reading Nation in Translation: The Spectral Transnationality of the Malaysian Racial Imaginary
Committee: Peter Hitchcock (Chair); Kandice Chuh; Susan Buck-Morss
M.Phil in English, 2010
State University of New York, College at Geneseo, Geneseo, NY
B.A. (summa cum laude) Communication and English, 2004
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Asia Research Institute, The National University of Singapore, Singapore
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014–present
Macaulay Honors College, CUNY, New York, NY
Instructional Technology Fellow, 2009–2014
Queens College, CUNY, Flushing, NY
Adjunct Lecturer, 2013–2014
Graduate Teaching Fellow, 2006–2009
Baruch College, CUNY, New York, NY
Adjunct Lecturer, 2005–2006
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
The Alumni and Doctoral Faculty Prize for the Most Distinguished Dissertation of the Year and the Publication Subvention Award, English, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2014
Dissertation Fellow, Mellon Committee on Globalization and Social Change, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2012–2013
Fellow, Center for Place, Culture and Politics, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2011–2012
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Invited Talks
“Epistemological Checkpoint: Reading Fiction as a Translation of History.” Cornell University, New Voices in Southeast Asian Studies Lecture Series, Ithaca, NY. March 11, 2014
“Reflections on War, (Mis)Translation and Transnational Literature.” SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, NY. March 19, 2012
Panels Organized
Seminar: “Taking Time, Third Time: Decolonization and the Un-Syncing of Global Standard Time.” Co-organizer: Kyoo Lee. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention. Toronto, Canada. April 4–7, 2013
Papers Presented
“Spectral Transnationality.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention. Toronto, Canada. April 4–7, 2013
“Queering Nation Time: Ghostly Sightings in The Last Communist.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Chicago, IL. March 6–10, 2013
“Fictionalizing the Malayan Emergency.” Asia Research Institute Graduate Forum. National University of Singapore. July 18–20, 2012
“The Spectral Communist.” Association of Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference. Singapore. June 19–22, 2012
A more detailed CV can be made available upon request.
