Invited Speaker, Discussant, and Respondent (selected)




  • Invited discussant: “Transpacific Literary, Documentary, and Bio-Imperial Encounters.” Inaugural Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies: Multicultural Dissent & Alliance Building. April 2021. 
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  • Roundtable participant: Rey Chow’s keynote address for “Love, Lust, Caution: Centennial Celebration of the Cross-Cultural Legacies of Eileen Chang,” USC, November 2020.

​Conference Presentations (selected)

  • "Educational Activism and Community Leadership of Theodore Hsi-en Chen (1902-1991)." Association of Asian American Studies Annual Conference 2023. April 2023 (Accepted).
  • ““What Kind of a Taiwanese Are You?”: National Longing, Cultural Belonging, and Inter-Imperial Forces from Manchukuo to North America.” Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference. March 2023 (Accepted). 
  • “'No Pressure to Do Anything but Have a Good Time': Becoming Taiwanese American in Taiwan’s Study Tour for the Second-Generation Youths in Valerie Soe's Love Boat: Taiwan." American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference. June 2022. 
  • "‘With the Tree to Be Planted There and the Soil from Here’: Native Soil in the Oceanic Network.” The Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature Biannual Conference. June 2022.
  • "Queering Folk Culture, Local Identity, and Nativist Literature." Queering Taiwan Studies Conference, the UCLA-National Taiwan Normal University Taiwan Initiative. April 2022.
  • “Serving (in) the Empire: Serial Colonization, Politics of Mourning, and Indigenous Soldiers in Taiwan.” Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference. March 2022. 
  • “Writing Across and Beyond: On Yūjū, Literary Translingualism, and the Question of the Mother Tongue.” Modern Language Association Annual Conference. January 2022. 
  • “The (After)life of Xiangtu.” North American Taiwan Studies Association Annual Conference. May 2021.
  • “Sailing the ‘Love Boat’: Becoming Asian American in Taiwan’s Study Tour for Diasporic Chinese and Taiwanese Youth in Abigail Hing Wen's Loveboat, Taipei.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference April 2021. 
  • “Writing in ‘Mama’ Tongue: Multilingual Soundscape in On Yūjū’s Writing.” Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference. Denver, CO. March 2019. 
  • “‘Daddy, Why Didn’t You Die?’: Sick Bodies and Ill Minds in Guo Songfen’s Short Stories.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference. Los Angeles, CA. March 2018. 
  • “‘What If the Child Should Look Like You?’: The Impotent Husbands in Yasunari Kawabata’s ‘The Moon on the Water’ and Songfen Guo’s ‘Moon Seal.’” Modern Language Association Annual Conference. New York City, NY. January 2018.
  • “Nationalism from Afar: Huang Juan and the Question of Being Chinese.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference Biannual Conference. Seoul, South Korea. July 2017.
  • “How to (Not) Be Chinese: Long-Distance Nationalism and Portable Nativism in Huang Juan’s Yangmei Trilogy.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference. Utrecht, the Netherlands. July 2017.
  • “Between and Beyond: Kyū Eikan and the Practice of Writing in Postcolonial Displacement.” Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Philadelphia, PA. January 2017.
  • “‘China Weekend’ in Iowa: Envisioning the Future of Chinese Literature.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference. Boston, MA. March 2016.
  • “Language as Politics: Defining the Vernacular in Colonial Taiwan.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference. Seattle, WA. March 2015.

Exhibition and Event Organizer

  • "Dr. Theodore Chen's Contribution and Legacy." A panel discussion co-organized with Tang Li. (forthcoming in April 2023)
  • ​"Dr. Theodore Hsi-en Chen (1902-1991): Chinese American Education Pioneer and Founder of East Asian Studies at USC 陳錫恩教授紀念展：華裔美籍教育先驅者和南加大東亞研究的奠基者." An on-site exhibition at USC's East Asian Library co-organized with Tang Li. Parts of this research is funded by The Floyd Covington Fellowship. (forthcoming in February 2023)

​Host and Organizer of USC EASC Talks

November 2022
  • Anti-Japan: The Politics of Sentiment in Postcolonial East Asia by Leo Ching
Sinophone Studies, Spring 2022
  • Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic (Duke University Press, 2021) by Hentyle Yapp, with Kandice Chuh as discussant. Video Recording
  • Experts in Action: Transnational Hong Kong-Style Stunt Work and Performance (Duke University Press, 2021) by Lauren Steimer, with Poshek Fu as discussant. Video Recording
  • Defectors from the PRC to Taiwan, 1960-1989: Anti-Communist Righteous Warriors (Routledge, 2021) by Andrew D. Morris, with Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang as discussant. Video Recording

Sinophone Studies, Fall 2021 
  • Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s to 1950s (Harvard University Press, 2019) by Evan N. Dawley, with Ping-hui Liao as discussant. Video Recording
  • The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization (Indiana University Press, 2020) by Sean Metzger, with Lok Siu as discussant. Video Recording
  • Writing Pirates: Vernacular Fiction and Oceans in Late Ming China  (University of Michigan Press, 2021) by Yuanfei Wang, with Xing Hang as discussant. Video Recording 
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​Modern China, Spring 2021
  • Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) by Andrew F. Jones, with Ying Qian as discussant. Video Recording
  • The Great Leap Backward: Forgetting and Representing the Mao Years (Cambria Press, 2020) by Lingchei Letty Chen, with Michael Berry as discussant.
  • Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China (Brandeis University Press, 2020) by David Der-wei Wang, with Carlos Rojas as discussant. Video Recording
  • Diaspora’s Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration (Duke University Press, 2018) by Shelly Chan, with Huei-Ying Kuo as discussant. Video Recording
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