Presentations

Invited Presentations

  • “On Names and Identities: Lessons from the Tyler Clementi Center.” Dialogues in Diversity Series, Office of Multicultural Student Involvement, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Apr. 9, 2014.
  • “Rutgers Ethnic Studies Programs” (panelist), What Makes Acculturation Successful? Immigrant Students’ Journeys to Higher Education, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Dec. 17, 2013.
  • “Visualizing the Mission of the Tyler Clementi Center.” Plangere Culture Lab Summer Immersive, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, May 23, 2013.
  • “Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Literature.” Narratives of Immigration: Asian American Communities and Conflicts, New Jersey Council for the Humanities Teacher Institute, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, NJ, Aug. 1, 2012.
  • “Illicit Crossings: Sexuality and Race in Richard Fung’s Films.” Minor Characters: Sexuality and Race in Asian North American Literature and Film from Canada to the Caribbean, Collective for Asian American Studies Symposium, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Mar. 31, 2011.

Conference Presentations

  • “Back to the Future: AIDS Fiction in the Twenty-First Century.” Queer Places, Practices, and Lives II, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, May 17, 2014.
  • “SIN/HIV/SFO: AIDS, the Body, and Justin Chin’s Corpus.” Association for Asian American Studies, San Francisco, CA, Apr. 18, 2014.
  • “To Serve the Academy? Asian/American Studies in the Neoliberal University” (with Allan Punzalan Isaac, Mariam B. Lam, Anita Mannur, Martin Joseph Ponce, and Cathy Schlund-Vials). Critical Ethnic Studies Association, Chicago, IL, Sep. 21, 2013.
  • “SIN/HIV/SFO: AIDS, the Body, and Justin Chin’s Corpus.” Modern Language Association, Boston, MA, Jan. 3, 2013.
  • “Mapping New Directions in American Studies: Re-Siting the Study of Asians in the Americas and the Diaspora” (with Allan Punzalan Isaac). American Studies Association, San Juan, PR. Nov. 16, 2012.
  • “From Personal Ads to Communal Living: Pedagogy, Literacy, and Sexual Utopia in Bert Shrader’s Gay Tutor.” Queer Places, Practices, and Lives: A Symposium in Honor of Samuel Steward, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, May 19, 2012.
  • “Canadian History on Trial: Sodomy, South Asian Identity, and the Spectacle of Homosexuality.” Association for Asian American Studies, Washington, DC, Apr. 12, 2012.
  • Mapping Asian American Archives across National Spaces: Language, Sexuality, History (panel organizer and presenter). Association for Asian American Studies, Washington, DC, Apr. 12, 2012.
  • “The Case of Rex vs. Singh: Performance, Sexuality, and the New Uses of Canadian Public History.” Eastern American Studies Association, New Brunswick, NJ. Mar. 30, 2012.
  • Empires, Nations, Migrations: Mapping Asian Diasporic Forms and Desires in the Americas (panel organizer and presenter). Eastern American Studies Association, New Brunswick, NJ. Mar. 30, 2012.
  • “AIDS 2.0: New Media and the ‘New’ Gay Generation Gap.” (De)generations: Reimagining Communities Seminar, Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Feb. 16, 2012.
  • “The Ghosts of AIDS.” American Studies Association, Baltimore, MD. Oct. 22, 2011.
  • AIDS in America: Memory, Performance, Politics (panel organizer and presenter). American Studies Association, Baltimore, MD. Oct. 22, 2011.
  • “The Importance of Being Ernie: Sex and Pedagogy in the Paintings of Frank Liu.” Association for Asian American Studies, New Orleans, LA, May 20, 2011.
  • “Bechdel’s Books: Filial Fantasy and Historical Consciousness in Fun Home.” Feminist Fantasies: Future Directions for the Study of Gender and Sexuality Conference, Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, May 13, 2011.
  • “Changing the AIDS Crisis: New Media and the ‘New’ Gay Generation Gap.” American Studies Association, San Antonio, TX, Nov. 18, 2010.
  • “From A to Q: Literacy, Sexuality, and Shame in the Work of Justin Chin.” Association for Asian American Studies, Austin, TX, Apr. 9, 2010.
  • “Reading and Remembering the AIDS Epidemic in Allen Barnett’s Short Fiction.” Center for the Study of Books and Media Graduate Student Conference, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Feb. 25, 2005.
  • Mapping New Terrains in African American Literary Studies (roundtable organizer). Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Jan. 19, 2005.
  • Literary Studies and the University in an Age of Globalization (roundtable organizer and moderator). Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Jan. 22, 2004.
  • “The Living End and the Faith of Loss: Gay Male Self-Representation in the Age of AIDS.” International Auto/Biography Association, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, July 29, 2000.
  • “ESL: English as a Shaming Language.” Rutgers Writing Program Colloquium, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Oct. 22, 1999.
  • Whose Life Is It Anyway? Theorizing Life Narrative (roundtable organizer and moderator). Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Sept. 22, 1999.
  • “The Man, the Writer, and the Legend: The Reconstitution of Identity in Male Captivity Narratives,” Canadian Association of American Studies, Banff, AB, Oct. 16, 1998.
  • “‘I could not but fall in love with myselfe’: Stylizations of Selfhood in Pierre-Esprit Radisson’s Voyages.” Making Contact: Natives, Strangers, and Barbarians Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Oct. 2, 1998.
  • “Railroading History: Bachelors, Coolies, and Sodomites in Richard Fung’s Dirty Laundry.” Modern Language Association, Toronto, ON, Dec. 29, 1997.
  • Imperial Bedrooms: The Empire at Home (moderator). Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Oct. 4, 1996.
  • Fictions and Fascisms (moderator). Canadian Lesbian and Gay Studies Association, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, June 3, 1996.
  • “Shades of Desire: Imagining/Imaging Black Male Bodies.” Canadian Lesbian and Gay Studies Association, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, June 2, 1996.
  • “Shades of Desire: Imagining/Imaging Black Male Bodies.” Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, May 25, 1996.
  • “Memento mori: The Life Writings of Paul Monette,” Queer: Act: Queer Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Mar. 23, 1996.
  • “Disorienting Gay Male Sexuality: Encountering the Other in Norman Wong’s Cultural Revolution.” Canadian Lesbian and Gay Studies Association, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, June 3, 1995.