Scholarly publications

from my academic life:

PUBLICATIONS 

 Peer-reviewed journals and edited collections:

“Uprooting Genealogy in G.B.Tran’s Vietnamerica, A Family’s Journey,” special issue on “Trans/forming Literature: Graphic Novels, Migration, and Postcolonial Identity,” edited by Sam Knowles, Journal of Postcolonial Writing 52:4 (Autumn 2016).

“What Washes up onto the Shore: Contamination and Containment in 'The Unwanted,'” in The Comics of Joe Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World, edited by Daniel Worden (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2015).

“Framing Refugee Time: Perpetuated Regression in Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza,” special issue on “Palestine and the Postcolonial: Culture, Creativity, Theory,” edited by Patrick Williams and Anna Ball, Journal of Postcolonial Writing 50:2 (May 2014). 

Review of Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity: Returning Medusa’s Gaze, for the New West Indian Guide 86:3&4 (2012). 

“The Wounded Word: V.S.Naipaul and the Language of Return,” South Asian Review special issue: V.S. Naipaul, ed. P.S. Chauhan. 26:1 (2005): 284-297.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Twentieth- and twenty-first century Postcolonial, Transnational and Migrant Anglophone Literatures; Diaspora and globalization studies; Ecocriticism, geopolitics, and national sovereignty; Refugee/Asylum international law; Visual culture, photography, and film; Graphic narrative and comic book; Theatre; Global Ireland.