journal articles, book chapters, & essays

“‘Breath that can pass the fire.’” (Article proposal accepted for a special issue of Poetics Today on Breath Poetics, anticipated 2027.)

“‘Wave Song’: Radiation Ecologies and Women’s Transpacific Poetics.” Women, Theory, Praxis, and Performativities: Transoceanic Entanglements, edited by Jacqueline Couti and Anny-Dominque Curtius, Liverpool UP, 2025, 138-164. 

“Ondobondo’s Visual Publics: Small Print Culture in Papua New Guinea.” Little Magazines, cluster of Post45: Contemporaries, edited by Nick Sturm, 2023.         

“Re-Staging the American ‘Freakshow’ in Olio: Tyehimba Jess’s Syncopated Sonnets.” The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays, edited by Dora Malech and Laura T. Smith, University of Iowa Press, 2022, 304-312.  

“Little Magazines from across Island Networks.” Asian Journal of African Studies 48 (2020), 55–81. (Special issue from 2019 ACLA panel, “Texts Travelling Beyond the West.”) 

“Medbh McGuckian’s Aesthetics of Introversion.” Textual Practice 34.4 (2020), 627-646.

“Paradise and Apocalypse: Critiques of Nuclear Imperialism in Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner’s Iep Jāltok.”Commonwealth Essays and Studies 41.1 (2018), 119–132.

“Slow Writing: Archival Research in the Digital Age” from “Dead Forms; or, A Defense of Good, Old-Fashioned Scholarly Writing.” PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 133.1 (2018), 190–198. 

“Beyond Machine Dreams: Zen, Cyber-, and Transnational Feminisms in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 13.2 (2016), 99–122.

recent presentations

“The Poet’s Memoir.” Co-chair and presenter. Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900. Louisville, KY. February 2026. 

“That moving line of breath”: Wind, Breath, and Vā in the Work of Caroline Sinavaina-Gabbard.” American Comparative Literature Association. Virtual conference. May 2025.

“‘What cannot be ordered’: Ritual and Ruin in the Poetics of M. NourbeSe Philip.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, PA. March 2025.

“Wars of Light: Indigenous Women’s Poetry against Nuclear Imperialism.” American Comparative Literature Association. Montreal. March 2024.

“Moving Islands: Proprioception and Indigenous Futurity in Robert Sullivan’s Star Waka.” Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, PA. January 2024. 

“Cross Currents: Tracing U.S. Military Imperialism through Transpacific Women’s Poetry.” American Comparative Literature Association. Chicago, IL. March 2023. 

“Documenting Empire: The Archival Poetics of Don Mee Choi and Claire Meuschke.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Baltimore, MD, March 2022.