Talks & Lectures

Selected Talks, Lectures & Seminars

2024    “First World Problems: Rights, Racial Form, and Asian Americanist Critique.” Invited Lecture. Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, Tufts University, Medford, MA.

2023    “Open Secrets: ‘The Really Necessary’ Right Not To Be Tortured.” Invited Lecture. Department of English, University of Utah. Salt Lake City, UT.

2021 “‘They chose, are glad, etc.’: Privilege, Precarity, Democracy and Citizenship in the United States.” Keynote Lecture for 8^th Annual American Studies Conference. Fairfield University, CT. (delivered remotely)

2019    “Being Well: Minor Subjects and the Right to Health.” Eminent Scholar Mentor Program. University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Baltimore, MD.

2018    “A Beastly World: Transnational Feminism, American Literature, and Wanting Otherwise.” Literature and Globalization II Research Seminar. Universidade da Coruña. Coruña, Spain.

2018    “‘I Haven’t Come Back… I’ve Come Here’: American Innocence and the Refugee Child.” Invited Speaker. The State of Human Rights: 18^th Academy Conference. Bavarian American Academy. Munich, Germany.

2017 “An Aesthetics of Kin and the Rights of the Child in Minor U.S. Literatures.” Distinguished Lecture. Five College Asian / Pacific / American Studies. Northampton, MA.

2016 “The Unyielding Earth: Women of Color Feminism and Cold War Fictions.” Lebanon Valley College Colloquium Series Speaker and Featured Scholar for “Crossing Boundaries in the U.S.” Seminar. Annville, PA.

2013 “The Right to Self Determination in a United Nations World: Minor Literatures and the Bandung Spirit.” Distinguished Lecture in Asian American Studies. Ohio State University.