I am Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University, State University of New York (SUNY). Before joining Binghamton, I was a postdoctoral College Fellow at Harvard University and held the ACLS Fellowship. I received my Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University.

My research focuses on Chinese/Sinophone literature, art, cinema, and media culture, with additional interests in sound studies, new media studies, environmental media studies, and disability studies. My work examines the cultural politics of media technologies and their impact on the human sensorium—especially sound—in shaping spatial-political relations around borders, migration, diaspora, and indigeneity. My work has appeared or is forthcoming in PMLA, Modern Fiction Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, ASAP/Journal, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, and in edited volumes such as Sinoglossia and Inter-Asia Intermediality.

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My first book project, The Noise Decade: Acoustic Entanglement across the Taiwan Strait, examines how artists in China and Taiwan have used sound recording to document, disrupt, and reimagine post–Cold War social and political transformations. From urban soundscapes and labor protests to missile tests, these sonic interventions constitute a trans-strait archive of noise that reflects the politics of intimacy and estrangement. I theorize “noise” as a techno-sensorial force that mediates cultural memory, political sensibility, and historical loss.

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More broadly, I work at the intersection of contemporary art, sound, and archival practice. Previously, as Assistant Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, I managed special collections including the Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant-Garde Art, the Yao Jui-Chung Archive of Contemporary Taiwanese Art, and the Experimental Television Center Archive. My work also extends into artistic collaborations, particularly with sound artists and community organizations. Recent projects include partnerships with the Chester Gifted Program, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, and Public Trust, through which I co-organize listening events, create soundscape compositions, and develop experimental publications that explore memory, habitation, and voice.

I received formal training in data science and have since integrated computational methods into my research on media preservation, cultural analysis, narrative studies, and AI development. My work bridges critical theory and computation to advance interdisciplinary inquiry across the humanities and data science. I collaborate with scholars and institutional partners, including metaLAB (at) Harvard and the Narrative Intelligence Lab at Columbia, to develop projects exploring the intersections of technology, culture, and humanistic research.

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I also serve as co-chair of the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession (2025–2027).