Welcome to my academic web space. I am an assistant professor specializing in the digital humanities and American literature at the Department of English, Old Dominion University….
I’ve put together a new site, Zainichi Studies, with the help of a mostly U.S.-based scholars to publicize Zainichi context and history for people who…
Edited Collection: Techno-Orientalism, Vol. IIEditors: David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta Niu, and Christopher T. Fan Deadline: August 8, 2022 So much has happened since…
I’ve put together a video overview of Minor Transpacific, which was published yesterday. I haven’t been traveling much of late due to the pandemic, so…
I’m pleased to announce that my next book, Minor Transpacific, is under contract with Stanford University Press and slated to be published in their spring/summer…
I had the chance to give a talk at Princeton last October on my latest book project, a comparative study of Asian American and Zainichi…
Update: My book is under contract with Stanford University Press, and will be published in 2021, hopefully around the time the Pachinko TV series premieres….
For those of you interested in designing a class on Techno-Orientalism (be it in Area studies or Asian American studies), I’ve generated a “master” syllabus…
Many thanks to all those who attended the DHU2 Symposium at the University of Utah. Thanks to my co-director, Rebekah Cummings, as well as many…
Update (04/15/2016): Another review, from PopMatters. Roh’s work offers a number of valuable insights. The ardent defense of copyright on a broad scale, he suggests,…
Finally, an excuse to exercise my photoshop skills with my academic writing! I’ve posted a short piece on the commonalities between the Eliot Estate and…
Check out this short-form essay by Wendy Lee on Avidly, a new forum from the LA Review of Books on popular culture and criticism. Our…
Everyone should check out Anne Stevens’s new book, Literary Theory and Criticism, coming soon from Broadview Press. I had the privilege of reading an advance…
This fall marks the beginning of a new chapter in my professional journey; I’m happy to announce that I will be an assistant professor of English at…
On January 30th, I give a talk on my forthcoming book at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor’s Digital Studies group. There are a lot of great…
Update: Pre-order on Amazon! After a lengthy revision and submission process, my monograph, Illegal Literature: Toward a Disruptive Creativity, is finally in production at University of…
Update (10/15/14): I had a wonderful time at UNLV sharing my work with the faculty members of both English and Law, who asked really great…
Update 11/02/14: Pre-order on Amazon! Link to Rutgers University Press Catalog Update 9/20/14: The volume is slated for release in the spring 2015 catalog. We’ve…
Wanted: high resolution screen (1080p+) tablet with pressure-sensitive stylus input with native PDF reader/editor. I’ve been dreaming about this for the longest time, and we’re…
I’m participating, along with Dylan Wittkower, in In Media Res‘s discussion on intellectual property rights in the digital age. Check it out!
“Disruptive” is usually an adjective given to unwelcome interlocutors; they’re perceived as bothersome, distracting, and in the worst cases, pernicious. In the tech world, however, disruptive…