Research

Ph.D. Project

Transpacific Relationalities in Chinese American Family Narratives [working title]

Research Interests

  • (Trans)Pacific Studies
  • Chinese and Asian American Literature and Culture
  • Life Writing
  • Transnational American Studies
  • Contemporary American Television

Publications

  • with Jens Temmen, eds. Across Currents: Connections between Atlantic Studies and (Trans)Pacific Studies. Spec. Issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents. (forthcoming)
  • with Jens Temmen. "Introduction." Across Currents: Connections between Atlantic Studies and (Trans)Pacific Studies. Spec. Issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents. (forthcoming)
  • with Birgit Däwes and Alexandra Ganser, eds.. Transgressive Television: Politics and Crime in 21st-Century American TV Series. Heidelberg: Winter, 2015.
  • with Birgit Däwes and Alexandra Ganser. "Season Recap: A Preface." Transgressive Television: Politics and Crime in 21st-Century American TV Series. Ed. Birgit Däwes, Alexandra Ganser, and Nicole Poppenhagen. Heidelberg: Winter, 2015. 9-14.

 Conference and Workshop Organization

  • with Jens Temmen: workshop "(Trans)Pacific Knowledge Landscapes," 62nd Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA/GAAS), University of Bonn, Germany. May 28-31, 2015.
  • with Diane Bélisle-Wolf, Melanie Hanslik, Caroline Heller, Xiuming He, and Nele Sawallisch: annual conference of the Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA). Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. October 10-12, 2014.
  • with Birgit Däwes, Karin Schmid-Gerlich, Alexandra Ganser, and Alexandra Hauke: international conference "Transgressive Television," Amerika Haus Vienna, Austria. October 1-3, 2014.

Conference Papers, Presentations, Lectures

  • "(Re)Imagining the Chinese American Self: Representations of Chinese Exclusion in Family Memoirs." University of Potsdam, Germany. July 2015.
  • "Pacific Crossings: Redefining the Family and the Nation in Chinese American Family Memoirs." Postgraduate Conference on Anglophone Literatures and Cultures: Cultural Crossings. University of Vienna, Austria. June 2015.
  • "Myths and Mysteries: (Re)Creating Transpacific Memories in Chinese American Family Narratives." 12th Heidelberg Center for American Studies Spring Academy 2015. Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg, Germany. March 2015.
  • "‘Taming the Money Dragon’ – ‘Family Laws’ in Chinese American Literature." Final Symposium of the 5th International Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law. University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany. August 2014.
  • "Standing on ‘Shifting Grounds’ Negotiations of Power and Gender in Transpacific Communities." International Conference: Shifting Grounds: Cultural Tectonics along the Pacific Rim. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz/Germersheim, Germany. July 2014.
  • "Transpacific Communities and Chinese American Literature." Bavarian American Academy – Fifth International Summer Academy: American Studies in a Transatlantic Perspective: Critical Regionalism in Politics and Culture. Munich and Nuremberg, Germany. May 2013.
  • "Germans and the American Way of Life: US Influence on Post-War Germany." School of International Studies, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China. March 2013.
  • "‘You lie with stories’: Mother-Daughter Conflicts and Transnational Storytelling in Chinese American Literature." 11th Annual Students and Graduate Conference: Playing House: Shifting Paradigms of Family and Kinship. Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. November 2012.
  • "‘Transnational Haunting’: Conceptualizing the Uncanny in the Works of the Chinese Diaspora." Postgraduate Forum, German Association for American Studies. University of Marburg, Germany. November 2012.