Department of English at the University of Virginia

Books

The Oriental Obscene: Violence and the Asian Male Body in American Moving Images in the Vietnam Era (Under contract from Duke University Press).

Refereed Articles

• “‘Look, an Asian!': The Politics of Racial Interpellation in the Wake of the Virginia Tech Shootings." Journal of Asian American Studies 11.1 (February 2008): 27-60.
• Restaging the Vietnam War: The Deer Hunter and the Primal Scene of Violence," Cinema Journal (forthcoming, Winter 2004).
• "From 'Blood Auteurism' to the Violence of Pornography: Sam Peckinpah and Oliver Stone," in New Hollywood Violence, ed. Steven Jay Schneider (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004).

Other Publications

• “Pornography and its Discontents: A Roundtable with Anjali Arondekar, Sylvia Chong, and Richard Fung.” In Embodiments of Asian/ American and Pacific Islander/ American Sexualities, ed. Sean Metzger and Gina Masequesmay (anthology under consideration at NYU Press).
• “Asian American Cultural Studies.” In Thinking of Reading: The University of Virginia Reader’s Guide, ed. Jessica Feldman and Robert Stilling. Forthcoming from University of Virginia Press.
• Study Guide, Midi Onodera’s I have no memory of my direction (2005). DVD Edition, Daruma Pictures, 2006.

Invited Lectures

• “‘Look, an Asian!': The Politics of Racial Interpellation in the Wake of Virginia Tech." Department of English and Program in Film Studies, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, March 4, 2008. 
• “‘Look, an Asian!': The Politics of Racial Interpellation in the Wake of Virginia Tech." Department of American Civilization and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Brown University, Providence, RI, December 3, 2007.
• New Asian American Poetry: Introduction of Bino Realuyo and Kimiko Hahn. The Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, VA, March 24, 2007.
• Looking at War: American War Photography in Vietnam and Iraq. The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, Charlottesville, VA, May 20, 2005.
• A Man is Being Tortured (And I Am Looking On): The Politics of Visual/Racial Identification in War Photography. Faculty Lecture Series, Department of English, University of Virginia, April 29, 2005.

Conference Presentations

• The Oriental Obscene: Visual Culture, Violence, and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era. Future Asian Americas: A Symposium on Asian American Studies, Fordham University, New York, NY, June 6 - 7, 2008.
• Roundtable Chair: Reflections on the Virginia Tech Shootings: One Year Later. Association for Asian American Studies, Chicago, IL, April 16 - 20, 2008. Participants include professors and community activists from the greater DC-metro area.
• A Mirror Scene of Racial Interpellation: Asian Americans and the Virginia Tech Shootings. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Philadelphia, PA, March 6-9, 2008.
• The Other Living-Room War: Urban Race Riots as Racial Primal Scene in 1960sTelevision News. Association for Asian American Studies, New York, NY, April 4 - 8, 2007
• Workshop Chair: What's up with Crash? Race, Pedagogy, and Cinema. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, IL, March 8 - 11, 2007
• The Other Living-Room War: Urban Race Riots as Racial Primal Scene in 1960s Television News. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, IL, March 8 - 11, 2007
• Administration Roundtable: Building Asian American Studies Outside of California. East of California: Sites of Asian American Studies, Ohio State University, November 3 - 4,2006
• Yellowface of a Different Color: Performing the Japanese Enemy in World War II Films. Association for Asian American Studies, Atlanta, GA, March 22 - 26, 2006
• Panel Chair and organizer, “APAs in Virginia: Student Research from UVA”. Association for Asian American Studies, Atlanta, GA, March 22 - 26, 2006
• Yellowface of a Different Color: Performing the Japanese Enemy in World War II Films. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver, BC, March 2 - 5, 2006
• Yellowface of a Different Color: Performing the Enemy in World War II Films. American Studies Association, Washington, DC, November 3 - 5, 2005
• Roundtable on Pornography and Its Dis/Contents. Association of Asian American Studies, Los Angeles, CA, March 20 - 24, 2005 
• “A Man is Being Tortured (and I Am Looking On)”: Jean Laplanche and Cinematic/Racial Identification. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, London, UK, March 31 - April 3, 2005. Panel Chair of “Psychoanalysis, Race, Cinema
• ”Chop-Socky as Vietnam Syndrome: Reading the Body in 1970s Martial Arts Films". Association of Asian American Studies, Boston, MA, March 25 - 28, 2004
• "Ars Violenta or Scientia Aggravescus? Inciting Violence Through Kung Fu Spectatorship". Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta, GA, March 4 - 7, 2004. Panel Chair of “Kung Fu: Beyond the National Cinema and the Auteur
• ”Vietnam and the Development of Film Violence". Association of Asian American Studies, San Francisco, CA, May 7 - 9, 2003. Panel Chair of “Asian Americans and the Vietnam War: Representations and Rearticulations
• ”Towards an Oriental Obscene: Vietnam and the Development of Film Violence". Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Minneapolis, MN, March 6 - 9, 2003. Panel Chair of “Where’s the ‘Vietnam’ in the Vietnam War?
• ”When is Racial Crossing Also a Sexual Crossing? Ethnic Performance as Transvestism". American Literature Association, Long Beach, CA, May 29 - June 2, 2002. Panel Sponsored by the Circle for Asian American Literary Studies
• What’s Pain Got to Do With It? Cinematic Intersubjectivity and Violence. Society for Cinema Studies, Denver, CO, May 23 - 26, 2002 
• “Addressing Sci-Fi from Academe”: Samuel Delany’s Literary Criticism Fiction. Monster and Critic: Transactions Among Art, Critique, and Culture, USC, Feb. 22 - 24, 2002 
• “Blood Auteurism”: Realism, The Wild Bunch, and the Pornography of Violence. Violence, Cinema and American Culture, U. of Missouri—St. Louis, April 6 - 7, 2001
• From Black Ships to White Masks: Reflections of Japanese National Identity in Manga and Anime. Far West Popular Culture Association, Las Vegas, NV, Feb. 2 - 4, 2001
• Race and Melancholies of Time and Space in the Early Work of Samuel R. Delany. Modern Language Association, Washington, DC, Dec. 27 - 30, 2000
• Reading Race as Science Fiction: The City and Ideologies of Race in Samuel Delany and Neal Stephenson. UC Berkeley Rhetoric Graduate Student Colloquium, Dec. 14, 2000
• Cultural and Sexual Transvestism: Pokemon’s “Team Rocket” and the Translation of Japanese Masculinities. QGrad 2000, Conference on Gender and Sexuality, UCLA, Nov. 18, 2000
• Bloody Orientals: Violence, Obscenity and the Asian Male Body in Action Films. Point Blank: Tough Guy Film and Culture, May 18 - 20, 2000
• Writing Bad Sex: Rape Fantasies and Female Masochism in X-Files Fan Fiction. QGrad 1999, Conference on Gender and Sexuality, UCLA, Oct. 22, 1999