During the 2006-2007 academic year, he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of English at Kalamazoo College. He received a 2011 Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Award from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). His teaching and research focus on U.S. Ethnic Studies (specifically comparative approaches to Asian American and African American Studies), Cultural Studies (literary and cultural theory, media literacy, critical pedagogies), and Women's Studies (feminist movement and social change). In 2016 he edited Writer in Exile/Writer in Revolt: Critical Perspectives on Carlos Bulosan which gathers pioneering essays by major scholars in Filipino American Studies, American Studies, and Philippine Studies as well as historical documents on Carlos Bulosan's work and life for the first time.