Her research primarily focuses on issues related to ethnic identity, multiculturalism, and authorship in contemporary ethnic American literature. Her writing has appeared in publications such as College Literature, South Atlantic Review, CLA Journal, and books including the forthcoming Growing Up Asian American in Young Adult Fiction. She’s currently writing Necessary Fictions: Authorship and Transethnic Identities in Contemporary American Narratives, a book examining belonging, identity, and acts of authorship in post 1989 ethnic American novels that utilize metafiction, or fiction that calls attention to itself as well as its own formal conventions. She earned a PhD in American Literature from the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, and an MA in English from Old Dominion University.