English Literature
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

English Literature, Magna Cum Laude
University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California

Articles

“When the Political is Personal: Life on the Multi-Ethnic Margins.”  Race in the Classroom, eds. Maureen Reddy and Bonnie TuSmith.  New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

“Critical Works of Milton Murayama.”  Asian American Casebook, eds.  Rowena Matsunari and Angela Williams.  Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press (forthcoming 2003).

Entries for Donald Duk (Frank Chin), Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers (Lois Ann Yamanaka), and All I Asking for Is My Body (Milton Murayama).  The Facts on File Companion to the American Novel Werlock.  New York: Facts on File, Inc. (forthcoming 2003).

“Feeding the Spirit: Mourning for the Mother(land) in Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge and Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman.”  Submitted for review to Studies in the Literary Imagination.

Masking Selves, Making Subjects: Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body, Traise Yamamoto (forthcoming Sojourner: The Women’s Forum.

Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America, eds. Sunaina Maira and Rajini Srikanth. Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States  (Winter 1999), 208-210.

Snow Falling on Cedars, dir. Scott Hicks.  Sojourner: The Women’s Forum (January 2000), 39 & 42.

Leaving Deep Water: The Lives of Asian American Women at the Crossroads of Two Cultures, Claire S. Chow.  Sojourner: The Women’s Forum  (October 1999), 36-37.

What the Fortune Teller Didn’t Say, Shirley Geok-lin Lim.  Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature for Women (Summer 1999), 139-40.

My Year of Meats, Ruth L. Ozeki.  Sojourner: The Women’s Forum (February 1999), 43.

Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment, Jane Gallup.  Sojourner: The Women’s Forum (November 1997), 44-45.

Everyday Acts Against Racism: Raising Children in a Multiracial World, ed. Maureen T.  Reddy.  Sojourner: The Women’s Forum (August 1997), 36-37.    

Where the Oceans Meet, Bhargavi C. Mandava.  Sojourner: The Women’s Forum (May 1997), 48-49.

Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim.  Sojourner: The Women’s Forum (November 1996), 34-35.

Visiting Professor.  Department of English, Mount Holyoke College, 2002-2003.

Courses include an upper-level seminar on postmodern Asian American narratives, an introduction to the study of literature, a composition course on Asian American coming-of-age novels, and a literature course on Asian American women writers.  For detailed syllabi and sample assignments see http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/jho.

Instructor.  Department of English, Mount Holyoke College, Spring 2001-Spring 2002.

Courses taught include an upper-level seminar “Coming-of-Age in Asian America: The Asian American Experience in Novels and Narratives,” a composition course on Asian American coming-of-age novels, and a course about contemporary Asian American literature. For detailed syllabi and sample assignments see http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/jho.

Scholar.  Project 2050/New World Theater, Amherst College, July 5-13, 2001.

Participated as a resident scholar in a week-long artists’ camp for Pioneer Valley youth. Taught sessions about personal identity and incarceration (as related to the Japanese American Internment). 

Instructor.  Department of English, Boston University, Fall 1996–Spring 2000.

Courses taught on expository composition, American literature, and fiction.  Planned lectures, facilitated discussions, graded assignments and papers, and worked individually with students to improve their writing. For detailed syllabi and sample assignments see http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/jho.

Teaching Assistant.  Department of English, Boston University, Fall 1995-Spring 1996. 

Assisted in an introductory fiction course, led two small classroom discussions each semester, presented guest lectures, and graded all assignments.

Reader. Department of English, Boston University, Spring 1998 & Spring 1999.

Contemporary American Fiction (Spring 1998) and Introduction to Poetry (Spring 1999). Graded half of all papers, midterm examinations, and final examinations.

English Literature Instructor.  Upward Bound/Project Achieve, Boston University, Summer 1998 & Summer 1999. 

Taught literature to college-bound high school students.  Created all lesson plans, led discussions of literature, and graded all assignments.

Invited Speaking Engagements

“Chinese Immigration and Foodways in the United States,” Anthropology 307: Food and Culture, Merry White, Boston University, Boston, MA, July 19, 2002.

Respondent, “’You're a Better Filipino than I Am, John Wayne’: World War II, Hollywood and U.S.-Phillipines Relations,” Professor Charles Hawley, “Reimagining ‘America’ in a Global Age,” Mount Holyoke College lecture series, South Hadley, MA  April 16, 2002.

“Deconstructing ‘The Great American Melting Pot,’” Five College Asian Pacific American faculty seminar, Easthampton, MA, November 13, 2001.

Keynote speaker, “Reflections on My First Year at Mount Holyoke College,” Passages First Year Orientation, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, August 31, 2001.

“Hop Sing Doesn’t Cook Here Anymore: Re-visioning Asian Americans and Food in Popular Culture,” panel on “Food and Asian American Culture,” Asian American Writer’s Workshop, New York, NY, June 9, 2001.

“Mourning for the Mother(land) in Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge and Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman,” American Studies Forum, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, April 8, 2001.

“Food and Ethnic Identity in Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman,” Anthropology 308: Food in Asian Culture, Merry White, Boston University, Boston, MA, February 21, 2001.

“Asian American Media Images and Stereotypes in Rush Hour,” sponsored by AASIA (Asian American Sisters in Action), Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, December 6, 2000.

 “Images of the Japanese American Internment in Print and Media,” English 200: Introduction to the Study of Literature, Jennifer Margulis, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, November 14, 2000.

“Contrasting Images of the Japanese American Internment in Hollywood Film,” Asian American Studies 101: Introduction to Asian American Studies, Karen Cardozo-Kane, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, October 5, 2000.

 “African American Women’s Writing and Sula,” English 141: Fiction, Emily Dalgarno, Boston University, Boston, MA, April 17, 1997.

 “Feminism and The Handmaid’s Tale,” English 141: Fiction, Aaron Fogel, Boston University, Boston, MA, November 21, 1996.

Organized Speaking Engagements

Mei Ng (author), Eating Chinese Food Naked reading, English Department Lecture Series, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, March 6, 2002.

Jean Wu (director of the Office of Diversity Education and Development, Tufts University), keynote speaker, “Asian American Teach-In,” Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA , March 2, 2002.

I Was Born with Two Tongues (Asian American spoken word group), “From Poetry to Performance,” Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA , October 17, 2001.

Cynthia Gates Fujikawa (filmmaker/performer), Old Man River film screening, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, April 18, 2001.

Asian American Literary Cabaret (featuring writers Tahira Naqvi, Nurjehan Aziz, and Rita Wong), Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 29, 2001.