I am an Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Princeton University, where I also serve as core faculty in Asian American Studies and as a member of the executive committee of the Program in Media and Modernity. I teach courses in Asian American literature, the global novel, 20th- and 21st-century fiction, and, at the graduate level, historical materialist approaches to the study of literature and culture. 

In February 2027, I will deliver the keynote at the Fifth Annual Global Asias Conference at the University of California, Irvine. My graduate student Betty He and I are planning a symposium on "Race, Automation, and AI" at Princeton, to be held that spring.

My book, Remittances, Literary and Economic, is scheduled for Fall 2027 publication by the University of Chicago Press. A chapter from that book, entitled “Cold War Remittance Economy” and published in American Quar­terly 73.3 (2021) [PDF︎], received two major awards: the Carlos Bulosan Excellence in Scholarship Award from the Association for Asian American Studies, and the 1921 Best Essay Prize, which is awarded annually by the Advisory Council of the American Literature Society for "the best article in any field of American literature."

Beyond Princeton, I am a Delegate Representative for Literary Theory and Method at the Modern Language Association (2023–26) and a member of the editorial board of Critical Times, a journal of global critical theory. Previously, I served on the jury for the 2024 Asian American Fiction Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian American Studies, as well as 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.

Born and raised in Tuguegarao, Cagayan, Philippines, I am a first-generation college student and scholar. I currently live in Princeton, New Jersey.