Teaching

A seminar studying how people use technology to resist or subvert dominant cultures — cyberspace and identity, online political activism, social networking, hacker culture, and remix culture.

A master's seminar analyzing postmodern fragmentation and transgression in American literature after 1945.

A graduate seminar exploring the emerging field through historical transitions and new media theory.

Examines collaborative literary creativity from poetry to digital formats, covering works by Pynchon and Nabokov.

Explores the history of intellectual property through novels, legal texts, and criticism, examining copyright's relationship with literature from Early Modern England through the digital age.

A lecture investigating Asian and high-tech signification in speculative fiction, reading texts such as Snow Crash and Idoru alongside films like Blade Runner.

An upper-level course examining how media forms interact: Can a painting be cinematic? Can a film be textual?

Surveys contemporary American fiction through modernist and postmodernist perspectives.

An undergraduate course examining Asian American identity and citizenship through literature from the late 19th century onward.