Techno-Orientalism 2.0
Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media
A second volume revisiting and expanding techno-Orientalist scholarship across speculative fiction, history, and media.
Research Agenda
Research
My research sits at the intersection of three fields: digital humanities, law and literature, and transnational studies. Across these areas I am interested in how technologies, legal regimes, and national borders shape — and are reshaped by — literary and cultural production.
In Illegal Literature, I examine how intertextual dialogism has long been a dominant mode of collaborative creativity, and how modern intellectual property law has constrained and redirected that creativity. In Minor Transpacific, I triangulate American, Japanese, and Korean fictions to recover transnational literary conversations that conventional national frameworks obscure. And in the Techno-Orientalism volumes, my collaborators and I interrogate the conflation of Asian and Asian American bodies, sites, and spaces in speculative visions of the future.
Books
Books
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Minor Transpacific
Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions
Examines Korean American and Korean Japanese (zainichi) writers, tracing how early Korean American authors were shaped by imperial Japan while zainichi writers engaged in transnational literary conversations across national boundaries.
Honorable Mention, Literary Studies — Association for Asian American Studies
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Illegal Literature
Toward a Disruptive Creativity
Investigates intertextual dialogism as a dominant mode of collaborative creativity and how modern intellectual property law has reshaped creative expression, drawing on literary court cases, non-hierarchical narratives, and fan culture.
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Techno-Orientalism
Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media
An interdisciplinary volume examining the conflation of Asian and Asian American bodies, sites, and spaces in speculative fictional visions.