OVERVIEW
I have been mentoring PhD students across a range of programs at UCI, such as English, Comparative Literature, Culture and Theory, Visual Studies, East Asian Studies, European Languages and Studies, Political Science, and Education. I adopt an individualized approach to mentoring, responsive to my graduate student colleagues’ intellectual interests and professional goals.

In terms of classroom teaching, I teach graduate and undergraduate courses that move between and across fields such as sociolinguistics, cultural studies, and literature. My classroom teaching, at both the undergraduate and graduate level, is shaped by my multidisciplinary approach to the pursuit of knowledge in my own research. My overall goal, in other words, is to guide students to view linguistic, literary, and cultural phenomena anew by exposing them to as wide a range of disciplinary perspectives, theories, and methodologies as possible, including, of course, those that cannot fit neatly into a specific disciplinary orientation or foundation as well.