She has published articles on Asian American comics/graphic narratives and is finishing a scholarly book on Asian American comedy and humor (forthcoming from Rutgers University Press). She is currently the president of the Circle for Asian American Literary Studies (CAALS) and one of the project directors for a year-long NEH-funded project devoted to "Building Asian American Studies across the Community College Classroom." Born and raised in California, she earned her MA and PhD in English at UC Santa Barbara and her BA in English and Theology at the University of San Francisco.