Summer 2005
Projects


Seminars and Such
Dissertation Work
  • Chapter on poetic discourse
  • Chapter on popular music discourse

Essays and Such In-Progress
Percolating (revisions)
  • "Challenging Poetics and Re-Meaning Race in Fred Wah's Creative Critical Writing"
  • The Body as Equation
Roasting
  • "Legislating Queer Sexualities through Asian America"
  • paper on children's book versions of folk tale "Stone Soup"
  • Asianness in Saturday Morning Cartoons and Multicultural Children's Literature
  • Asian (American) Masculinity, Sexuality, and Sports
  • Pop Music Genre and Cultural Belonging: Kai and Linkin Park
  • a paper on recent fictionalizations of Chang and Eng Bunker and conjoined twins in American popular culture today
  • a paper on Asian Canadian literary studies as a field
  • "Colonial Legacies and Mythic Origins in Shani Mootoo and Larissa Lai's Fiction"
  • Buffy and Race
  • work on early Asian American writing
  • thoughts on Asian American Studies in the South
  • a paper on the politics of erotic communication
  • a paper on Buffy, the materiality of knowledge, and technology
  • a paper on souls and morality in Buffy
  • a paper on abandonment and trauma (possible texts: A Streetcar Named Desire and Cereus Blooms at Night)

Other Stuff


Previous Projects