Books

1. 25 Events That Shaped Asian American History (2019)
2. Asian American Culture: From Anime to Tiger Moms (2016)
3. Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives: Essays on Theory, Strategy and Practice (2012)
4. Mulan's Legend and Legacy in China and the United States (2010)
5. Transnationalism and the Asian American Heroine: Essays on Literature, Film, Myth and Media (2010)
6. Reading Amy Tan (2009)

Recent Journal Articles and Book Chapters (since 2020)

1. "Queer Immigrant Bildungsroman: Trung Le Nguyen's The Magic Fish." Co-authored with Tena L. Helton. Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place, edited by Arnab Dutta Roy, Paul Ugor, and Simone Maria Puleo, University of Nebraska Press, 2026.
2. "Coming of Age in and between Fragments: Lisa Wool-Rim Sjoblom's Palimpsest Documents from a Korean Adoption." The Post Bildungsroman: Coming of Age at the Margins, edited by Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo, Bloomsbury, 2025.
3. "Girlhood Reimagined: Malaka Gharib's Graphic Memoirs." Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, 2024.
4. "Girl Gamers and Digital Activism in Doctorow and Wang's In Real Life." Co-authored with Tena L. Helton. The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, vol. 77, no. 2, 2023.
5. "Multilingual and Multicultural Childhood: Robin Ha's Almost American Girl." Journal of Literary Multilingualism, vol. 1, no. 2, 2023. Comics Studies Society Article Prize shortlist 2025
6. "(Un)Masking a Chinese American Superhero: Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew's The Shadow Hero." Beyond the Icon: Asian North American Graphic Narratives, edited by Eleanor Ty, Ohio State University Press, 2022. Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize 2023
7. "Mapping Social Differences in the Virtual Classroom: Inclusive Multimodal Texts and Learner-Centered Design." A Socially Just Classroom: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Writing across the Humanities, edited by Vuslat Katsanis and Kristin Coffey, Vernon Press, 2022.
8. "History Meets Literary Imagination: The Making of a Twelfth-Century Woman Warrior." Women's Lives: Self-Representation, Reception, and Appropriation in the Middle Ages, edited by Nahir I. Otano Gracia and Daniel Armenti, University of Wales Press, 2022.
9. "Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: A Milestone in Asian American Literature." Asian American Literature in Transition: 1965-1996, edited by Asha Nadkarni and Cathy Schlund-Vials, Cambridge University Press, 2021. The American Library Association's Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2022
10. "Drawing Childhood and Politics: Malik Sajad's Munnu A Boy from Kashmir." Studies in Comics, vol. 12, no. 1, 2021.
11. "Drawing Histories, Documenting Experiences: Clement Baloup's Vietnamese Memories." Inks: The Journal of The Comics Studies Society, vol. 5, no. 3, 2021.
12. "Ambiguity in Parallel: Visualizing History in Boxers and Saints." Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama, Oxford University Press, 2020.