Master's theses
advised: "Influence of Vietnamese and American Cultures on the Vietnam
War" by Aaron Burkhardt (2004); "The
Effects of Environment, Lifestyle, and Diet on Two Anasazi Populations
in the Four Corners Region" by Tania
Rénee Tucker (2006); "Educational Policy: Standards, Testing, and
Alternatives Impacting Minority Students" by Neil Davis (2006); "The Effects
of Late Twentieth-Century Immigration on Primary and
Secondary Education in the
United States" by Donald Badura.
Toni Morrison's Secret Drive:
How a Nobel Laureate Moves Her Readers. In revision.
Articles and Book Chapters:
"Story and History: Rural Asian
California around 1940." Australasian Journal of American Studies 14 (July
1995): 1-14.
"Race/[Gender]: Toni Morrison's
'Recitatif.'" Journal of the Short Story in English 27 (Autumn
1996): 83-96.
"Race and Response: Toni Morrison's
'Recitatif.'" Short Story
5 (Spring 1997): 77-86.
"Home(s), Family(ies), and Identity(ies) in
Mukherjee's Jasmine." Ideas of Home: Literature of Asian
Immigration/Emigration. Ed. Geoffrey Kain. East Lansing: Michigan State UP,
1997. 249-56.
"Black Cowboys in the American West: An
Historiographical Essay." Ethnic Studies Review 20 (1997): 79-89.
"Enemies in Their Own Land: The Internment
of Japanese Americans during World War II." Asian American Studies:
Identity, Images, Issues Past and Present. Ed. Esther Ghymn. New
York: Peter
Lang, 2000. 207-16.
"'Talk! Talk! Talk!': Silence as Death in The
Woman Warrior." Emerging Rhetorics. CD-ROM. Ed. William E.
Tanner, Stephen Souris, and Alfred G. Litton. Mesquite, TX: Caxton,
2000.
"Sacred Hoop Dreams: Basketball as
Metaphor in the Works of Sherman Alexie."Ethnic
Studies Review 32.1 (Win. 2009): 77-88.
"Game-Themed Programming Assignments for Faculty: A Case Study" (sixth author, with C. Hillyard, R. Angotti, M. Panitz, K. Sung, and J. Nordlinger. Proceedings of the 41st SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (Mar. 2010): 270-74.
"Page and Screen: Teaching Ethnic Literature with Film." Pedagogy 10.3 (Fall 2010): 562-67.
"Once More, With Feeling: Whole People and Partial Lessons." National Teaching and Learning Forum 20.1 (Dec. 2010): 5-7.
"Feeding the Pipeline: Helping Students of Color Write College Entrance Essays for the University 2.0." Higher Education Teaching and Learning Portal, 17 Sept. 2011. <http://hetl.org/2011/09/feeding-the-pipeline/>.
"Hybrid Learning and Faculty Development: Using a 'Community of Inquiry' Framework to Foster Hybrid Teaching and Learning Success" (third author, with C. Leppa, A Brockhaus, R. Bliquez, and I. Porter. Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011. Chesapeake, VA: AACE, 2011. 257-62.
"Fostering Social Presence in a Blended Learning Faculty Development Institute" (first author, with Carol Leppa, Andreas Brockhaus, Rebecca Bliquez, and Ian Porter). Educational Communities of Inquiry: Theoretical Framework, Research and Practice. Ed. Zehra Akyol and D. Randy Garrison. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. 375-89.
Rethinking the Borderlands: Between
Chicano Culture and Legal Discourse by Carl Gutiérrez-Jones. Explorations
in Sights and Sounds 15 (Summer
1995): 47-48.
(Un)Doing the Missionary Position:
Gender Asymmetry in Contemporary Asian American Women's Writing by Phillipa Kafka.Ethnic
Studies Review 20 (1997): 106-07.
Reading for Realism: The History of a
U.S. Literary Institution by Nancy Glazener. American
Studies 40 (Spring 1999): 138-39.
Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison's Invisible
Man by Eric J. Sundquist. MELUS 24
(Spring 1999): 246-48.
The Americas of Asian American Literature by Rachel
C. Lee.Ethnic
Studies Review22 (1999): 128-29.
From Color-Line to Borderlands: The
Matrix of American Ethnic Studies, ed. by Johnnella E. Butler, and Ethnic
Studies: Issues and Approaches, ed. by Philip
Q. Yang. American Quarterly 52 (Dec. 2002): 691-99.
Chinese American Literature since the
1850s by
Xiao-huang Yin.Ethnic
Studies Review 25 (2002).
The Futures of American Studies, ed. by Donald E.
Pease and Robyn Wiegman. Ethnic
Studies Review 26 (2003).
Asian-American Fiction, History and Writing by Helena Grice. Journal of American Studies 44.4 (1 Nov. 2010): 824-26.
Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937 by Julia H. Lee. Journal of American Studies (forthcoming).
Conference
Papers and Panels:
"'You Talkin' to Me?': Minority Reader
Responses to Minority Literature," California American Studies Assn.; Fullerton, CA; 1 May
1992.
"Is There a Class in This Text?: Readers
and Response to Morrison's 'Recitatif,'" Northeast
Modern Language Assn.; Montréal, Canada; 20 Apr. 1996.
Chair of panel, "Common Ground among
American Readers: The Possibilities of Reader-Response Criticism," Northeast
Modern Language Assn.; Montréal,
Canada; 20 Apr. 1996.
Invited
panelist, "Reading Against the Grain: Media Activism and the New Political
Documentary," Cascadia Community College; Bothell, WA; 24 May 2006.
Chair and
co-organizer, "Complicating Constructions: A Roundtable Discussion
of the Future of Ethnic American Literature," MELUS ; Fresno, CA; 23 March 2007.
Chair and
organizer, "Liminal Spaces: Ephemeral Sites
of Cultural Collisions," American Studies
Assn. ;
Philadelphia; 13 Oct. 2007.
"Once More, with Feeling: Whole People
and Partial Lessons," Choice Words Distinguished Faculty Lecture; Bothell, WA;
25 Oct. 2007.
Chair and
co-organizer, "Complicating Constructions: A Roundtable Discussion
of the Future of Ethnic American Literature," Pacific and Ancient Modern Language
Assn .; Bellingham, WA; 3 Nov. 2007.
"'Driving' Lessons: Risks, Revisions, and
Portfolios," Distinguished Teaching Award Lecture to
the General Faculty Organization;
Bothell, WA; 25 May 2008.
"Community-Based Learning as Transformative Pedagogy," SoTL Commons poster session; Statesboro, GA; 13 Mar. 2009 (accepted; withdrawn due to travel freeze).
"Feeding the Pipeline: Helping Students of Color Write College Application Essays," National Assn. for Ethnic Studies; San Diego; 2 Apr. 2009 (accepted; withdrawn due to travel freeze).
"Community-Based Learning as Transformative Pedagogy," Teaching and Learning Symposium poster session, U of Washington; Seattle; 21 Apr. 2009.
"Assessing a General Education Unit at the Three-Year Mark." Assn. of American Colleges and Universities General Education and Assessment Conference poster session; Seattle; 18 Feb. 2010.
"A Multifaceted Assessment of a Lower-Division Unit." SoTL Commons poster session; Statesboro, GA; 11 Mar. 2010.
"Fostering an Interdisciplinary Culture at a Major Research University: The Program in Interdisciplinary Pedagogy." London SoTL Conference; London; 13 May 2010.
Invited Lecture: "Why Race Means Nothing ... and Everything." UW Bothell; 30 Nov. 2010.
"Implementing Eportfolios throughout First-Year and Upper Division Curricula Using Google Sites," with Jerelyn Resnick and Linda Watts. Assn. for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning Western Regional Conference; Salt Lake City, UT: 28 Feb. 2011.
Invited presentation, "Faculty Development for Assessment Competencies." Conference on Enhancing Human Resource Development through Excellence in Education; Christ University; Bangalore, India; 17 Feb. 2011.
"The Hybrid Course Development Institute: Using a 'Community of Inquiry' Model to Foster Hybrid Teaching and Learning Success," with Carol Leppa, Rebecca Bliquez, and Andreas Brockhaus. UW Bothell Teaching and Learning Symposium; Bothell, WA; 28 Apr. 2011.
"What Are They Thinking? Best Practices for Classroom Response Systems ("Clickers")." International Society for Exploring Teaching and Learning; San Diego; 14 Oct. 2011.
"Hybrid Learning and Faculty Development: Using a 'Community of Inquiry' Framework to Foster Hybrid Teaching and Learning Success," with Andreas Brockhaus, Rebecca Bliquez, and Ian Porter. Assoc. for the Advancement of Computing in Higher Education; Honolulu: 20 Oct. 2011.
"A Career Services and Faculty Collaboration: Developing Professional ePortfolios in a Senior Capstone Course," with Emily Christian. Assn. for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning Western Regional Conference; Salt Lake City, UT: 27 Feb. 2012.
"Decentering the University," Innovation Forum; Univ. of Washington Bothell; 13 Feb. 2013 (forthcoming).
"Radical Learning-Centeredness: De-Centering the University," Assn. of American Colleges and Universities General Education and Assessment Conference; Boston; 1 Mar. 2013 (forthcoming).
Dean's Citation for Outstanding Teaching
(3), UCI, 1989-91.
UC Regents Fellowship, 1989-90, 1994.
Consulting:
Waseda Univ. (Tokyo), two invited lectures on faculty development and four day-long workshops (2012)
Pierce College (Puyallup, WA), Master Teacher Program keynote facilitator, "Learning Theories" (2008) and "Authentic Assessment of Student Learning" (2009 and 2010)
Western Washington Univ. (Bellingham, WA), using portfolios (2009)
Professional
Membership and Service:
Editorial
Advisory Board, Journal of Popular Culture
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