I am an Assistant Professor of English at Yale University. My first book project is called The Shape of Forest to Come: The Sylvan Grammars 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 ways of being. My second book project will be about Native literary regionalism.

I got my PhD at the University of Virginia, found in America's second-most beautiful city. I grew up in America's most beautiful city (Rockford, IL), where I attended its top high school (Auburn). My family is from the Philippines. My principal affective attachment is to a stuffed cat.