A5013361576- Themes in Literature Analysis
- Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Diverse Music Education Insights
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Spatial and Cultural Studies
- Art Education and Development
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Educational theories and practices
- Comics and Graphic Narratives
- Digital Storytelling and Education
- Educational Environments and Student Outcomes
- American and British Literature Analysis
- Higher Education Practises and Engagement
- Service-Learning and Community Engagement
- Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
University of Arizona
2023-2024
University of California, Los Angeles
2020
UCLA Health
2018
If advanced high school English classrooms remain some of the few spaces where young people, especially people color, might read Victorian novel, what opportunities for political work we expect, innovate, demand from those encounters? Drawing experiences directing LitLabs, immersive, site-specific, design-based approaches to studying literature with South LA teens, author argues expanding geographies literary works reference include readers’ embodiment in place so that studies can strengthen...
Abstract How do we public scholarship? It might seem like a simple question, but as anyone who has attempted to experiment with academic norms—let alone work collaboratively in and through institutional regulations, cultural expectations, diverse personalities—is well aware, things get complicated quickly. As scholars, practitioners, educators the humanities, authors offer set of sticky thorny questions that are both theoretically minded practice oriented, possibilities consider throughout...
In this essay, we describe a pedagogy for teaching and studying literature cities through the embodiment of an urban sound scavenger. Extending Walter Benjamin’s figure ragpicker to poetically assemble disparate imaginaries, explore how two linked projects set in Los Angeles, CA, demonstrate listening bodies coconstituting both literary texts environments.
ABSTRACT A survey of AP English Literature and Language exams administered over the past two decades reveals that nineteenth-century British literature—especially novels this era—is underrepresented compared to texts from other literary historical periods. At same time, a range recent or relatively fiction, television shows, film depicts teenagers embracing Victorian texts, particularly George Eliot. This unexpected enthusiasm for literature published centuries ago, however, is even more...
"Who Is the We in Diaspora?" is episode2, season two of Digital Salon, an experimental podcast begun at onset COVID-19 pandemic. Produced by coauthor Jonathan Jae-an Crisman, "DJ," it meditates on Atlanta shootings six Asian spa workers March6 2021. The transcript this episode presented anew, paired with "liner notes" that are a collaboration between DJ and his "critical listener," Jacqueline Barrios, piece co-producer through textual "accompaniments" its afterlife to stage work's claim own futurity.