Though my scholarship generally explores writing and language pedagogy, identity, justice, and feminist care ethics, I am often compelled to study and write about issues I am seeing, experiencing, or wondering about in my current contexts.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
2026
“Exploring Grammar in Food Reviews: A Critical Language Awareness Approach”
with Lyn Westergard
Writing Spaces Assignments & Activities Archive. Parlour Press, 2026.
2023
“On Practicing, Theorizing, and Reimagining: Reclaiming Our Right and Our Responsibility to Name”
Symposium: “Learning to Teach and Transgress from bell hooks.”
Teaching English at Two-Year College, March 2023.
2019
“Identity Crisis: Daring to Identify as More than ‘Just’ Adjunct Composition Instructors”
with Gina Hanson
Forum: Issues About Part-Time and Contingent Faculty, vol. 2, no. 2, 2019.
Professional and Public Scholarship
2022
“An Open Letter to Academic Senates: Addressing the Safety, Mental Health, and General Well-Being of Asians and Pacific Islanders Working in the California Community Colleges System”
with coauthors
Rostrum. Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2022.
Book Chapters
2026
“Writing to Be Seen and Needing to Be Heard: Writing as Emergency from the Perspective of the SBCCD Asian and Pacific Islander Association”
with coauthors
In Writing Emergencies: Composing (Ourselves) in Times of Crisis, edited by Holly Hassel and Kate Pantelides. Utah State University Press, 2026.
2021
“Narrative of Discontent: On Interrogating What It Means to Be a Scholar”
In Voices of Practice—New Stories of Scholarship, edited by Sean Michael Morris, Lucy Rai, and Karen Littleton. Pressbooks, 2021.
2019
“Being First: Motivation or Albatross”
In Lingua Franca: First-Generation Immigrant Scholars in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by Letizia Guglielmo and Sergio C. Figueiredo. NCTE, 2019.
2009
“Being a Linguistic Foreigner: Learning from International Tutoring”
with Linda Bergman and coauthors
In ESL Writers: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors, 2nd ed., edited by Shanti Bruce and Ben Rafoth. Boynton/Cook Publishers, 2009