EMPLOYMENT

Teaching Faculty, University of Wisconsin–Madison (2021–Present)
Lecturer, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (2017–2021)
Associate Faculty, Loyola University Chicago (2016–2017)

EDUCATION

PhD, English with distinction, Loyola University Chicago (2015)
MA, English, University of Toronto (2008)
BA, English & Psychology, University of Wisconsin–Madison (2005)
Certificate in Integrated Liberal Studies

GRANTS

Curricular Innovation Grant, Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, UW-Milwaukee (2020), $5,000+

FELLOWSHIPS

Teaching and Learning AI Fellow, Inaugural Cohort, CTLM UW-Madison (Spring 2026)
Teaching Fellow, Digital Humanities Lab, UW-Milwaukee (2020)
Teaching Fellow, Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, UW-Milwaukee (2020)

PUBLICATIONS

Books
The Process of Generative AI Writing. Practical Guides to Communication Series. Palgrave-Macmillan (forthcoming 2026).

Edited Journals
Special Issue of the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association on “Intelligence,” co-edited with Naomi Michaelwicz (2025)

Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Introduction: Reinterpreting Intelligence.” With Naomi Michaelwicz. JMLA 57.1 (2024), 7–11.
“Emerson’s Pedagogy of Recollection.” Philosophy and Literature 44.2 (2020), 350–365.
“Enchanted Consumption and the Gift(s) of Diaspora.” JCL (Feb. 2019).
“Authorship, Advertising, and Editorial Approaches to Dubliners.” JJQ 55.3–4 (2019): 297–312.
“Mapping the Media of Aleksandar Hemon’s Diasporic Time-Geography.” ARIEL 49.2–3 (2018): 37–62.
“Culture Shock, Sticker Shock.” The Puritan (Winter 2014).
“Jaded Ghosts in the Writings of Wayson Choy.” JMLA 46.2/47.1 (2013/2014): 55–75.
“The Aesthetics of Material Textuality.” International Journal of the Book 10.1 (2013): 1–17.

Book Chapters
“Spatial Empathy in Refugee Video Games.” Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives (2023).
“Teaching Genre as Method in The Dew Breaker.” Approaches to Teaching Edwidge Danticat (Routledge, 2020).

Reference Works
“Immigration.” London’s East End Encyclopedia (2023).
“Aleksandar Hemon.” Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction (2022).
“Ha Jin.” Asian-American Literature Encyclopedia (2021).
“The Chinese Exclusion Act.” 25 Events that Shaped Asian-American History (2019).
“Research Guide: A Doll’s House.” SparkNotes (2017).
“Filipino-American Folklore and Folktales.” American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales (2016).

Reviews
Review of America’s Vietnam (2019).
Review of Mediamorphosis: Print Culture and the Transatlantic Public Sphere(s), 1880–1940 (2012).

PUBLIC MEDIA APPEARANCES

Interview: “Professors, Students Tackle Generative AI at UW-Madison.” PBS Wisconsin Here & Now (1/5/2024)

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS

Exploring AI in Teaching, UW-Madison CTL/WAC (2025)
AI Workshop, MMLA (2024)
Practical Approaches to AI in Composition Courses, GMWP (2024)
AI Workshop, UW-Madison CTL/WAC (2023)
Affect and Refugee Video Games, UMich (2023)
Town Hall on AI in Teaching and Learning, UW-Madison (2023)
Empathy in Strategic Planning Refugee Games, Council of Europe (2023)
Inclusive Approaches to Generative Writing, UW-Madison (2023)
Spatializing Emotion in Refugee Games, Dartmouth College (2023)
ChatGPT Colloquium, UW-Madison (2023)
Diaspora Bonds, MLA (2019)
Narrative Mobility in Americanah, PCA (2018)
Migrating Platforms, ASA (2017)
Ambiguous Archives, CUNY (2017)
Diasporic Time-Geography, Dartmouth (2014)
Public Space in Hemon, ACLA (2014)
Maps for Mobile Audiences, University of Delaware (2011)

CHAIRED PANELS

AI in the Undergraduate Writing Classroom, MMLA (2025)
Outposts of the Humanities, MMLA (2025)
Getting it Published, MMLA (2025)
American Literature Post-1870, MMLA (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019)
Alt-Ac Career Workshop, MMLA (2023)
Career Pathways (2 panels), MMLA (2022)
Teaching Ethics in Professional/STEM Writing (2 panels), MMLA (2022)

AWARDS & HONORS

Alpha Sigma Nu (2014)
Travel Award, ACLA (2014)
Award for Excellence, International Journal of the Book (2013)
Gravett-Tuma Book Scholarship (2012)
Stanley Clayes Memorial Essay Award, First Place (2011)
Interdisciplinary Research Award (2011)
Travel Awards, Loyola University Chicago (2011, 2012, 2014)
Tuition Award, Loyola University Chicago (2010–2015)
Research Award, Loyola University Chicago (2010–2015)

COURSES TAUGHT

University of Wisconsin–Madison

InterEGR397 Engineering Communication

Summer 2021–Fall 2025 (3 sections per semester)

University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

English 310 — Writing, Speaking, and Technoscience in the 21st Century
• Taught multiple semesters, including several sections per term (online and in-person)

English 207 — Health Science Writing
• Taught multiple semesters, including several online sections

English 205 — Business Writing
• Taught multilpe semesters, including online

ME 110 — Mechanical Engineering Writing Labs
• Multiple lab sections across several semesters

Loyola University Chicago

UCWR 110 — Writing Responsibly
• Taught multiple themed sections (e.g., Rhetorical Questions; (De)Coding Communication; Composing the Public Sphere; Fake Headlines: Academic Writing for a Post-Truth Age)

English 273 — Exploring Fiction
• Topics included: Transnational Short Story Cycles; Writing Home: Diaspora & Literature; Genres of Globalization

UCLR 100 — Interpreting Literature
• Topic: Altered States: Literature in Times of Transition

Teaching Assistantships
• Contemporary Critical Theory (Spring 2013)
• Writing Responsibly (Spring 2011)

SELECT EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

Developmental Editor (2017–Present)
Editor, ACS “In Touch” Book Series (2020–2022)
Reviewer, Digital Humanities Quarterly (2016–Present)
Contributing Editor, Routledge Online (2008–2012)

SELECT UNIVERSITY SERVICE

CASI Representative (2021–Present)
Academic Staff Nominating Committee (2022–Present)
AI in Teaching Working Group (CoE) (2025)
E4All AI Pathway Leader (2025–2026)
E4All Community of Practice (2024–2025)
CASI Chair, College of Engineering (2024–2025)
Deliberation Dinners Facilitator (2024–2025)
Marquette BETTER Teaching Community of Practice (2024)
President, MMLA (2023–2024)
Judge, Senior Design Presentations (2022–2024)
CASI Co-Chair (2022–2023)
Vice President, MMLA (2022–2023)
Grievance Committee, UW-Milwaukee English (2020–2021)
Ombudsman, UW-Milwaukee (2019–2021)

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Vice President, Board of Trustees, New Berlin Public Library (2019–Present)
Lead Tutor, Loyola Community Literacy Center (2012–2014)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

UW System: The Discussion Project (2021)
Certificate in Online Learning (2020)
Course Design Institute (2018)
Active Learning Certification (2018)
Online/Blended Teaching Certification (2018)
Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Project Management Certificate (2013)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Midwest Modern Language Association (2010–Present)