My research focuses on post-1900 American literature, multiethnic U.S. literature, Vietnam War literature, critical race theory, and literary translation. I view literary translation as both a political and ethical endeavor. In addition to publishing scholarly articles and essays, I am dedicated to translating Vietnamese literature as a means of challenging the marginalization of Vietnamese voices in dominant American narratives about the Vietnam War and fostering cross-cultural understanding within the comparative humanities.

LIT 596: Graduate Independent Study (American Literary Criticism since 1930; Vietnam War Literature; Asian American Literature; Modern & Contemporary American Drama; Vietnam & the Vietnamese Refugee Subject in Literary Imagination; Multiethnic US Fiction and Non-fiction)
LIT 521: US Literature Seminar (Multiethnic US Literatures; Ethnic American Memoirs & Autobiographies)
LIT 420: Critical Race Theory
LIT 391: Special Topics (Vietnamese Literature in English Translation, 1930-Present; Vietnam War Literature)
LIT 380: Literary Approaches to Drama (American Drama, 1900-present)
LIT 369: Short Fiction (American Short Stories since 1945; The American Short Story & Novella)
LIT 344: Asian American Literature
LIT 343: African American Literature (The New Negro: Voices of the Harlem Renaissance; The Black Arts Movement & the Second Renaissance (1960-2000); African American Fiction & Drama since 1900) 
LIT 304/430: US Writers of Color
LIT 301: Studies in Literary Forms
LIT 300: Literary Criticism
LIT 246: Genres, Themes, and Approaches (The North American Short Story)
LIT 236: Literary Histories (US Literature since 1945; Modern US Literature; American Realism & Naturalism)
LIT 211: American Literature II
LIT 201: Introduction to Literary Studies
LIT 110: Introduction to Literature