My writing and research interests lie at the intersection of the global anglophone, transnational literature and film, gender and sexuality studies, and critical race theory.

I am currently an assistant professor in the English department at City University Hong Kong. I was previously Visiting Lecturer in Global Anglophone Literature in the English Department at Mount Holyoke College. I was born and raised in Singapore. I received my M.A. (2014) and PhD (2019) in English from Brown University and graduated with my B.A. double majoring in Economics and English from the University of California, Berkeley.

My writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies, The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro, and elsewhere. I also regularly contribute essays to public-facing platforms such as The New York Times, WIRED, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Los Angeles Review of Books, Contemporaries at Post45, The Brooklyn Rail, and Literary Hub. I am a semi-regular contributor to Ideas at WIRED. My nonfiction has appeared in the Notable List of the Best American Essays series.

I have been granted awards and fellowships to fund my research and teaching by the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin, the Sumitomo Foundation, T:>Works Singapore, the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation, the Japan Foundation, Fudan University, and the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), among others.

I am currently the Reviews Editor at ASAP/J and ASAP/Journal, and Essays Reader for Singapore Unbound.