Welcome
Hey y’all! I thought about writing this using the third person but that’s a little bit weird right?I am an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah. My interest revolve around how media can help create and sustain ideas about our identities, our relationships to each other, myriad institutions, and the way we live – so I will never run out of things to look at! My research topics range from representations in media, to sport, to digital media technologies, to the rhetoric of racially mixed folks.
Research
My research is situated in the areas of cultural studies, critical media and digital media studies, comparative ethnic studies (with a focus on African-American and Asian American studies), critical rhetorical studies, gender and sexuality studies, and the emerging field of critical mixed-race studies. The critical focus in my research means that I am always examining the ways power enhances or elides the way we understand meta-narratives of identity like race, gender, class, sexuality, nation, etc. I focus on mediated representations because I am interested in contextualizing the moments that shape representations as they appear and how in turn those representations shape our understandings of each other.
Media
My book Blasian Invasion: Racial Mixing in the Celebrity Industrial Complex (U. Mississippi Press) is out now!
