SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
“A Far East Movement: The Cultural Politics of Asian/Americans in Kpop.” Association of Asian American Studies Conference. Washington, DC. 2012.
“She Is Straight Gangster: Challenging Gender Roles in Korean Dramas.” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Honolulu, HI. 2012.
“Hello Hallyu: Kpop Fictions, Facts and Fans in the Global Academy.” Talk Session by KPK: Kpop Kollective. KPOPCON. University of California, Berkeley. January, 2012.
“ ‘Old Laces, Strange Embroideries, Dim Brocades”: Orientalisms in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand.” MELUS. Boca Raton, FL. 2011.
“Women and the Wuxia Series.” 50th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Conference/Association for Asian Studies: Transnational Asia: Art, History, Popular Culture and Political Economies. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2011.
“Chinese School: Cross-Cultural and Transnational Strategies in Ping Pong Playa (2007).” Association of Asian American Studies. Austin, TX. 2010.
“A Tale of Three Cities: The Urban and Afro-Asian American Encounters in The Matrix Trilogy.” Association of Asian American Studies. New York, NY. 2007.
“Using an Orientalist Lens?: The Harlem Renaissance Photography of James Van Der Zee.” Harlem Renaissance: Aesthetics, Values, Identity. The 23rd Annual Symposium on African American Culture and Philosophy. Purdue University. 2007.
“Happily Ever After: Asian/America in Tsui Hark’s Once Upon A Time in China.” Comparative Literature Symposium on America’s Asia, Asia’s America. Texas Tech University, Lubbock. 2007.
“What Are You Looking At?”: Mirrors as Reflectors of Race in the Art of Roger Shimomura and Iona Rozeal Brown.” Association of Asian American Studies. Atlanta, GA. 2006.
“The New Color Line: Black Authenticity and Transnational Context in African American Art.” Blacker Than Thou: Authenticity and Identity. The 22nd Annual Symposium on African American Culture and Philosophy. Purdue University. 2006.
“The Afro-Asiatic Floating World: The Cross-Cultural Implications of iona rozeal brown’s Paintings.” American Studies Association. Washington, DC. 2005.
“The Afterlife Is Just a Lay Up Away”: The Resolution of Despair in Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle. American Literature Association. Boston, MA. 2005.
“Harmonious Heritages: Lawson Inada’s Response to the Call of Jazz in Legends from Camp.” MELUS: Urban Ethnicities. University of Chicago. 2005.
“‘Worlds of Color’: Literary Representations of Black-Asian Cooperation.” American Studies Association. Atlanta, GA. 2004.
“Stranger in the Village?: The Black Aesthetic in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book.” (Panel participant and organizer). MELUS: Transfronterismo: Crossing Ethnic Borders in U.S. Literatures. University of Texas, San Antonio. 2004.
“When Were We Colored?: Blacks, Asians and Racial Discourse in the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries.” Blacks and Asians in the Making of the Modern World. Boston University, 2003.
“The Wildest Seed Yet: New Racial Dimensions in Octavia Butler’s Survivor.” College Language Association. Washington, DC. 2003.
“Racial Discourse as Environmental Policy: The Rhetorical Response to Black Emigration and Japanese Nationalism.” East of California Asian American Studies. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 2002.
“Black Is. . . and Black Ain’t: The Multiethnic Impulse of the Black Aesthetic and the Novels of Ishmael Reed and Frank Chin.” Dartmouth Summer Institute on American Studies, 2002.
“Asians and Asian Americans in the Contemporary Black Imagination.” Blacks and Asians: Encounters Through Time and Space International. Boston University, 2002.
“Towers of Ivory, Ebony and Jade: Asian American Studies and the Legacy of the Black Intellectual Experience in the South.” East of California Asian American Studies Conference. Oberlin College, 2001.
“Can We All Just Get Along? Bridges and Chasms Between Asian American and African American Cultures.” Association for Asian American Studies. Toronto, Canada, 2001.
“Nothing New Under the Sun: Race, Postmodernism and Literary Interpretative Strategies.” MELUS. Memphis, TN, 2001.
“The Multiethnic Legacy of Africana Studies.” National Council for Black Studies 25th Anniversary. Greensboro, NC, 2001.
“The Schmoo of American Culture: African American and Asian American Cultural Dynamics in Ishmael Reed’s Japanese by Spring.” African American Literature and Culture Society 2000: Looking Back With Pleasure II. Salt Lake City, UT, 2000.
“Chinatown Black Tigers: Black Postmodernism and Masculinity in Frank Chin’s Gunga Din Highway.” American Literature Association. Long Beach, CA, 2000.
“More Than Black and White: Media Portrayal of the Relationship between African Americans and Asian Americans in the U.S.” 24th Annual International Conference of the National Council for Black Studies. Atlanta, GA, 2000.
GALLERY TALKS
“Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist.” Spencer Museum of Art. University of Kansas. October, 2007.
“The Cost of Liberty is Less than the Price of Repression: The Historical and Cultural Context of Jacob Lawrence’s John Brown Series.” Holt/Russell Gallery. Baker University. June 2006.
