Position Title
Professor
Position Title
Professor
- English
Bio
I joined the UC Davis English department's faculty in 2008. My interests include 19th and 20th-Century U.S. literature, Asian diasporic literature, race studies, cultural geography, sensory studies, and the environmental humanities. My most recent books, The Smell of Risk: Atmospheric Disparities and the Olfactory Arts (NYU, 2020) and Air Conditioning, consider smell and thermoception as sensory capacities for perceiving and relating to differentiated atmospheres. I'm currently working on a study of sensory projects of worldmaking and speculation in olfactory narrative and multimodal art. Recent courses have examined topics such as sensory geographies, geographies of risk, transnational American literature, speculative eco-fiction, and the aesthetics of chemo-sensation.