I study American literature, mostly from the long nineteenth century, focusing on Indigenous American literatures, American realism, environmental humanities, and film. I am an Assistant Professor of English at Yale University. My work appears or is forthcoming in a bevy of scholarly journals.
My book project is called The Shape of Forest to Come: The Environmental Imagination of Native US Literature. It is about how Native writers from Apess to Zitkála-Šá responded to the broad-scale sylvan destruction of American environment by generating new ways of being with the self and with others.
Prior to my graduate program, I got a bachelor's degree in computer science from Brown University and worked as a software developer. An article of mine about digital "mid-range reading" has appeared in Victorian Studies.
I got my PhD at the University of Virginia, found in America's second-most beautiful city (Charlottesville); I grew up in America's most beautiful city (Rockford, IL), where I attended its top high school (Auburn). My family is originally from the Philippines. If you're a student or scholar at Yale—or anywhere—please reach out. I'd love to collaborate, talk, give advice, or generally chat.
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The best way to contact me is by email.