I am an Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Princeton University, where I also serve on the executive committee of the Program in Media and Modernity. In 2023, I was appointed Laurance S. Rockefeller University Preceptor at the University Center for Human Values. My undergraduate courses include “Asian American Literature,” “Global Novel,” “Model Minority Fictions,” and “World Scale.” At the graduate level, I teach seminars on racial capitalism and Marxist aesthetic theory.

My article, “Cold War Remittance Economy,”︎ [PDF] American Quar­terly 73.3 (2021), received two major awards: the Carlos Bulosan Excellence in Scholarship Award from the Filipino Studies section of the Association for Asian American Studies, and the 1921 Best Essay Prize, awarded annually by the Advisory Council of the American Literature Society for "the best article in any field of American literature."

Beyond Princeton, I serve as Delegate Representative (2023–26) for Literary Theory and Method at the Modern Language Association. I was a juror for the 2024 Asian American Fiction Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian American Studies, and currently serve on the steering committee for the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on “Transpacific Thought and the Problem of Asia” (2024–25), directed by Kandice Chuh and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu.