One of the foremost experts on Asian American literature in the world. Served for 10+ years as the first and only curator of viet descent at the World’s Largest Museum and Research Complex. Available for lectures, readings, workshops, and consultations, as well as editorial and curatorial projects, including developmental editing. See below for examples of lmbd’s past talks, editorial projects, and consulting.
*All Smithsonian inquiries should be directed straight to hell.
recent talks + workshops
“On the Present and Futures of Asian American Studies”
talk and workshop series on Asian American studies, emerging pedagogies, and new possibilities for access culture in the academy, with Mimi Khúc, Amherst College and University of Massachusetts Amherst
(Feb 2026)
“Writing Out of the War Machine”
People’s Forum, with George Abraham, Sarah Aziza, Cathy Che, André Dao
(May 2025)
“F/ANON, or: EFF the Canon”
participatory keynote for the Undergraduate Conference on Multiethnic Literatures of the Americas, California State University, Fresno
(Mar 2025)
“Writing Club at Home: On Ghosts with Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis”
MOMA x Asian American Writers’ Workshop
(Jan + Feb 2024)
“Potshots at the Empire from the Tattered Hot Air Balloon of the Arts”
Tisch College, Tufts University
(Apr 2022)
past editorial
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CREATIVE FUTURES: 40 Provocations to Reimagine the Arts, Documentary, and Journalism
digital publishing project, Ford Foundation (2020), guest editor. Series of think pieces charting possibilities for futures of the arts, documentary, and journalism.
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Poetry Magazine July/August 2017
guest co-editor. Historic first-ever issue of Poetry Magazine devoted to Asian American poets
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Massachussetts Review Winter 2018
guest co-editor. First-ever special issue on Asian American literature.
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Asian American Literary Addresses
APAC (2017-18), editor. Series of think pieces by leading writers and scholars assessing the state and futures of Asian American literature
consulting
on the arts and museums, particularly in terms of solidarity arts economies; disability justice and access culture; labor, queer, gender, and racial justice; and philanthropy.
on literary and academic publishing–new directions and old dung heaps.
on care-, access-, and disability justice-oriented pedagogies.
on building cooperatives within and across the arts, museums, and Higher Ed.
Past clients/partners include the Ford Foundation, Poetry Foundation, Kundiman, and numerous academic units, scholars, and artists.