Publications

Edited Volumes

  • (with Sandra Meerwein and Olga Thierbach McLean) Transpacific Connections. (in preparation)
  • (with Jens Temmen) Across Currents: Connections between Atlantic Studies and (Trans)Pacific Studies. New York: Routledge, 2019.
  • (with Jens Temmen) Across Currents: Connections between Atlantic Studies and (Trans)Pacific Studies. Spec. Issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents 15.2. (2018). https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjas20/15/2
  • (with Birgit Däwes and Alexandra Ganser) Transgressive Television: Politics and Crime in 21st-Century American TV Series. Heidelberg: Winter, 2015.
  • (with Diane Bélisle-Wolf, Melanie Hanslik, Caroline Heller, Xiuming He, and Nele Sawallisch) Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies 16.1 (2015).

Contributions to Journals 

  • (with Jens Temmen) “Introduction: Across Currents: Connections between Atlantic Studies and (Trans)Pacific Studies.” Across Currents: Connections between Atlantic Studies and (Trans)Pacific Studies. Spec. Issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents 15.2. (2018): 149-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2017.1394131
  • “Transpacific Life Writing.” What’s Next? The Futures of Auto/Biography Studies. Special Issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 32.2 (Spring 2017): 183-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2017.1287937
  • (with Diane Bélisle-Wolf, Melanie Hanslik, Caroline Heller, Xiuming He, and Nele Sawallisch) “Editorial.” Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies 16.1 (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.

Contributions to Edited Collections

  • “‘Ocean People’—Maritime (Im)Mobilities in the Chinese American Imaginary.” Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literature and Culture. Eds. Alexandra Ganser and Charne Lavery. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023: 187-210. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91275-8_10
  • “‘Claiming the Pacific’: Family Negotiations and (Trans)Pacific Histories in Pam Chun’s The Money Dragon.” Shifting Grounds: Cultural Tectonics along the Pacific Rim. Eds. Jutta Ernst and Brigitte Glaser. Heidelberg: Winter, 2020:
  • (with Jens Temmen).  “Introduction: Across Currents: Connections between Atlantic Studies and (Trans)Pacific Studies.” Across Currents: Connections between Atlantic Studies and (Trans)Pacific Studies. New York: Routledge, 2019: 1-11.
  • (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. 

Presentations

  • “Entangled Continents: Transpacific Intimacies in Chinese American Family Narratives” (Presentation, American Studies Week, November 8, 2024, Europa University Flensburg, Germany)
  • “Continents, Islands, Oceans: Conceptualizing Transpacific Relationalities”( Presentation, American Studies Week, November 16, 2025, Europa University Flensburg, Germany)
  • “Transpacific Relationalities: Oceanic Mobility in Chinese Diasporic Narratives” (Keynote Lecture, November 29, 2019) Liquid Trajectories: Flight, Mobility, and Migration, American Studies Graduate Forum, Saarland University, Germany)
  • “Man Walks on Moon, Stumbles on Earth, 1969” (Lecture, July 20, 2019, Phänomenta, Flensburg, Germany)
  • “Across Pacific and Atlantic Currents: Navigating the Turbulent Oceans in American Studies,” with Jens Temmen (Conference Paper, Postcolonial Oceans: Contradictions and Heterogeneities in the Epistemes of Salt Water, Joint Annual Conference of GAPS and IACPL. 30 May-2 June 2019, University of Bremen)
  • “‘Routes and Roots’: Transoceanic Relations in Chinese Diasporic Family Narratives from the Pacific and the Caribbean’ (Conference Paper, Ethnicity and Kinship: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Family, Community, and Difference, Eleventh Biennial MESEA 2018 Conference. May 30-June 2, 2018 Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria)
  • “Navigating Pacific and Atlantic Currents: Towards a Transoceanic Perspective in American Studies?”, with Jens Temmen (Conference Paper, Transoceanic American Studies.  May 17-18, 2018. German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.)
  • “Accidental Asians?” – Rethinking Identity in Contemporary Asian American Life Writing (Invited Lecture, University of Vienna, Austria, January 15, 2018)
  • “Dreiecksbeziehungen – Chinesisch-Amerikanische Familien zwischen Asien, Pazifik und Amerika” (Presentation, Junge Forschung an der EUF – ProjektPool. Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany, December 12, 2017)
  • “Dreams of Sandalwood Mountain: Chinese Hawaiian Family Narratives and Pacific (Dis)Contents” (Presentation, Current Research in American Studies. Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany, June 16, 2017)
  • “(Re)Imagining the Chinese American Self:               Representations of Chinese Exclusion in Family Memoirs” (Invited Lecture, University of Potsdam, Germany, July 20, 2015)
  • “Myths and Mysteries: (Re)Creating Transpacific Memories in Chinese American Family Narratives” (Presentation, 12th Heidelberg Center for American Studies Spring Academy 2015. Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg, Germany, March 23-27, 2015)
  • “‘Taming The Money Dragon’ – ‘Family Laws’ in Chinese American Literature” (Presentation, Final Symposium 5th International Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law. University of Osnabrück. Osnabrück, Germany, August 15, 2014)
  • “Standing on ‘Shifting Grounds’: Negotiations of Power and Gender in Transpacific Communities” (Conference Paper, Shifting Grounds: Cultural Tectonics along the Pacific Rim, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz/Germersheim, Germany, July 17-19, 2014)
  • “Transpacific Communities and Chinese American Literature” (Presentation; Bavarian American Academy – Fifth International Summer Academy: American Studies in a Transatlantic Perspective: Critical Regionalism in Politics and Culture, Munich and Nuremberg, Germany, May 20-June 3, 2013)
  • “Germans and the American Way of Life – US Influence on Post-War Germany” (Invited Lecture, School of International Studies, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China, March 28, 2013)
  • “‘You lie with stories:’ Mother-Daughter Conflicts and Transnational Storytelling in Chinese American Literature” (Conference Paper, 11th Annual Students and Graduate Conference: Playing House: Shifting Paradigms of Family and Kinship, Humboldt University Berlin, March 15-17, 2014)
  • “‘Transnational Haunting’ – Conceptualizing the Uncanny in the Works of the Chinese Diaspora” (Conference Paper, Postgraduate Forum, German Association for American Studies, Marburg, November 2-4, 2012)

Research Interests

Ph.D. Project in American Studies, working title: “Transpacific Relationalities in Chinese American Family Narratives.”

(Trans)Pacific Studies, Transatlantic Studies, Life Writing and Auto/Biography Studies, Family and Kinship, Religion and American Politics