Past
2024
April 4, 2024 Texas A&M RESI Cantu symposium, Asian American Popular Culture, panelist, College Station, TX
March 5. Table Talk conversationalist, Hilton Americas, Houston
February 29 “Life Writing and Activism,” discussion with scholar-activist Cynthia Franklin, University of Houston
2023
December 3 post-screening Q&A with Extreme Job star, Ryu Seung-Ryong, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
November Five Flavours Film Festival (Warsaw, Poland) recorded discussion of female filmmakers in Hong Kong, from 1960s to today
11/2 moderator, Bella! This Woman’s Place is in the House, post-screening Q&A, filmmaker Jeff L. Lieberman and Battling Bella biographer Leandra Zarnow
Blurbed Susan Blumberg-Kason’s book, Bernardine’s Shanghai Salon
August juror, Elevate Arts Grant for City of Austin, Texas
July 27 discussing Barbie on local radio show, Houston Matters
June 27 conversationalist, LitHub’s Cosmic Narratives podcast, “Cinematic Transcendence: On Legendary Quests and Wuxia Cinema”
June 19 jury, Artist Boat “Beautify the Bucket” Competition
May 3 film picks for Stanford University Press blog
April juror, Houston BIPOC Arts Network Fund
March 26 editorial in Nikkei Asia
2022
12/2 introduced Roberto Tejada at Choose Me screening, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Fall referenced in leading art history journal, American Art, for special issue on rethinking disciplinary practice
Nov recorded a podcast (voiceover in Polish!) for the 16th Five Flavours Film Festival!
10/21 introducing Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
10/17 opening night remarks at The Assassin, first screening in Wuxia Cinema: The Magic of Martial Arts film series, hosted by Taiwan Economic and Cultural Organization, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Rice Cinema
9/23 , Illustration and Race: Rethinking the History of Published Images, Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, online symposium
7/12 guest visit, Wonderworks course in film appreciation
6/11-10/30 Norman Rockwell Museum, Imprinted: Perceptions of Race in Illustration, exhibit advisor
5/21 Plenary Roundtable, “Widening the Borders of British Studies.” 30th Annual British Women Writers Conference, Baylor University, Waco, TX
5/3 UH Media and Moving Image 2022 Award Ceremony
4/1 film intro, The Conversation, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Mar on Hekayat Al Cinema (Tales of Cinema), an Arab-language TV program for London’s Al Araby TV
2/17 guest speaker, Honors College, University of Houston
2021
8/19 guest speaker, Berkeley Public Library: “Tyrus Wong” (with filmmaker Pamela Tom)
8/1-6 participant, Community of Writers, Nonfiction workshop
Aug. James D. Houston memorial fellowship, Community of Writers
5/19 guest speaker, GOOD DOCS, “Tyrus Wong” (with filmmaker Pamela Tom),
5/18 advisor, Houston Public Library and UH Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies film screening and filmmaker discussion: Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority
4/30 guest discussion, Be Reel podcast: “John Woo at 75: Three Eras, Two Barrels, One Vision That Forever Changed Action Cinema”
4/7 guest speaker, Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, “Tyrus Wong’s Bestselling Christmas Cards”
3/29 panelist, University of Houston Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Barbara Karkabi Living Archives Series; UH CLASS Special Committee on Race & Social Justice; Asian American Studies Center; and the Friends of Women’s Studies: “Anti-Asian Racism & Sexism” (with Debbie Chen, Elizabeth Chiao, and Yali Zou)
2/11 panelist, Denver Project for Humanistic Inquiry and Denver Film Society: “Wong Kar-Wai: Gender, Politics, and Production History” (with Gina Marchetti, Joseph McElhaney, Ken Provencher, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, and Carlos Rojas)
2/10 interview, Turkish English-language television TRT World, “Showcase” segment: 35th anniversary of John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow
Jan interview, National Film and Television School (UK), Home in Hong Kong film series ( with programmer Nick Kouhi)
2020
yearlong Fellow, Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies
11/12 filmmaker Q&A, Houston Cinema Arts Society, My Prince Edward (with director Norris Wong)
11/4 interview, The B-Roll, discussing Hong Kong and Chinese film, creative culture in 2020
8/19 advisor, Houston Public Library, Museum of Fine Arts, UH Women, Gender and Sexuality film screening and panel discussion: Chisolm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed
4/19. screening commentary, Houston Cinema Arts Society:The Wild Goose Lake
4/8 guest speaker, University of Southern California, Visual Studies Research Institute “Background Artist: Art and Immigration in the Life and Work of Tyrus Wong”
3/27 panelist, Illustration and Its Histories: New Resources, New Voices, New Directions. Rockwell Center for Visual Studies and Hunter College Department of Art and Art History. “America’s Foremost Card Designer, Tyrus Wong.”
1/27 advisor, Blaffer Gallery, exhibition and filmmaker presentation: Mariam Ghani
2019
10/25-27 panelist, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, The Picturesque: Visual Pleasure and Intermediality in between Contemporary Cinema, Art and Digital Culture: “Experimental Attractions.”
10/18 Discussant, “Sheng-Mei Ma’s ‘China’s Orient in Fan de Siécle Culture.’” University of Houston, Center for Public History, Chinese Studies, and Modern and Classical Languages Faculty Forum
August. selection jury, Cascadia Women’s Film Festival
July prize jury, Q*Fest Houston
5/16 programmer, Inaugural Media and Moving Image Student Prize Competition keynote speaker: filmmaker Jenny Waldo
3/22-24 panelist, Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies and D. B. Dowd Modern Graphic Library, Washington University, Illustration Across Media, Nineteenth Century to Now: “Illustration and Identity Formation.”
2/12 co-programmer, guest lecture by Boston University literature, film and American studies scholar Christina Klein
1/11 screening intro, Death in Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
2018
12/15 filmmaker and documentary subject Q & A, US-China International Film and Television Festival. Asia Society Texas: “Dancing through Life: The Dorothy Toy Story” and “Race: The Al Young Story,” with director Rick Quan and race car driver Al Young
11/8 panelist, Asia Society Texas. “Chinese Soft Power.” with Steven Lewis and Congressman Gene Wu.
10/18 Panelist and moderator, University of Houston, Departments of English and History, with the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Arab History: “Domestications: American Empire, Literary Culture, and the Postcolonial Lens (Honoring Hosam Aboul-Ela.”.
10/12-20 panelist, Association for the Study of Arts of the Present, annual conference. “Surveillance as Infrastructure.”
August. selection jury, Cascadia Women’s Film Festival
July. inaugural prize jury, Q*Fest Houston, July 2019
4/10 guest speaker, City University of Hong Kong, Department of English: “From Surveillance Camera to Pickpocket: Theorizing Narrative in World Film.”
3/9 screening intro, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: The Great Buddha
2/6 advisor, Empire Studies collective, Center for Public History, and African American Studies: The House on Coco Road screening and post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Damani Baker
2017
12/26 panelist, The Projection Booth, discussing John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow (with with Kenneth E. Hall and Barna William Donovan)
11/4 advisor and screening intro, UH School of Art, local film premiere and filmmaker discussion, Les Femmes du Chaos
8/8 panelist, Oxford Comment: “Gangsters and Genre” (with Peter Stansfield and Anita Lam)
7/28-30 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, annual conference: “Alternatives to Nation in the Age of Chinese Cinematic Hegemony.”
7/22 Panelist, Hong Kong Book Fair, French Consulate for Hong Kong and Macau, Hong Kong Trade and Economic Development Council: “Hong Kong Cops and Triad Films” (with Arnaud Lanuque and Sam Ho)
7/6-9 panelist, American Comparative Literature Association, “Scenes of Investigation.”
6/2-9/30 advisor, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, exhibit: The Propeller Group
4/12 guest speaker, University of Pennsylvania, Cinema and Media Studies Colloquium: “Participatory Media and Civic Engagement in Popular Cinema: The Hong Kong Film Ten Years.”
3/31 fireside chat, University of Virginia, Brown College
3/30 guest speaker, University of Virginia East Asia Center, Brown College, Department of Media Studies, and Asian Pacific Islander: “Participatory Media and Civic Engagement in Popular Cinema: The Hong Kong Film Ten Years.”
3/30-31 programmer, University of Virginia, East Asia Center, Brown College, Media Studies and Asian Pacific Islander History Month film series, “Hong Kong Cinema.”
3/1-4 panelist, Canadian Association of Cultural Studies, Carceral Cultures conference, “Vernacular Surveillance.”
2/24 programmer, University of Houston, Center for Public History, Department of English Empire Studies, and Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Modern American History, colloquium with political scientist, anthropologist, and specialist in security studies, Paul Amar, University of California, Santa Barbara
2/21 screening intro, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Manolo: The Boy who made Shoes for Lizards
2/11 programmer and film introduction, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Chicken and Duck Talk
2/6 interview, KPFT Open Journal: discussing Arresting Cinema and Chicken and Duck Talk
1/26-27 programmer, Asia Society Texas and University of Houston, Department of English, Empire Studies Collective, and Program in Creative Writing: craft workshop, master class, and scholarly lecture with novelist Qiu Xiao-long (talk: Day 1; Day 2)
1/5-6, 11-13 programmer and participant, University of Houston, UH School of Communications, Department of English, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Centre for Public History, Department of History, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Honors College, Workshops in Videographic Criticism, with Chris Keithley (Middlebury College) and Keith Houk (University of Houston)
2016
12/9 filmmaker Q&A and screening programmer, Education University of Hong Kong: Ten Years, with producer Andrew Choi and filmmakers Jevons Au, Ng Ka-leung, and Kiwi Chow Kwun-wai
12/7 guest speaker, Hong Kong Institute for Education, Centre for Popular Culture in the Humanities. Surveillance, Form, Affect: A Multidisciplinary Conference: “Reading Race in an Age of Neo-formalism.”
12/7-9 advisor, Education University of Hong Kong, Surveillance, Affect, Form: An International Conference
10/17 presenter and post-screening film discussant, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Chan is Missing
4/4 programmer, presentations by film and media studies educator and policymaker Peter Decherney (University of Pennsylvania)
3/17-20 panelist, American Comparative Literature Association annual conference, “The New Security State.”
2015
11/13 screening intro and filmmaker Q & A, Houston Cinema Arts Society Festival and Aurora Picture Show: The Perfumed Nightmare, with filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik.
9/11 guest speaker, University of Houston, Department of English: “Arresting Cinema: Surveillance in Hong Kong Film”
2014
10/8 organizer, University of Houston, Department of English, presentations by film critic Sam Ho
5/3 post-screening panelist, Rice Media Center, “Spotlight on Tsai Ming-liang”: The River and Vive L’Amour
3/27 programmer and speaker intro, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference: lecture by Tom Gunning, “Animating the 19th Century”
3/27-30 program committee, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference: Nineteenth Century Energies. University of Houston, English Department and the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
moderator Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Conference annual conference: “Light, Lens, Trace, Power” and “Narrative before the Moving Image.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century
2013
12/9-11 panelist, Hong Kong Polytechnic University: Politics in Chinese Comedy
11/9 screening intro and filmmaker Q & A, Houston Cinema Arts Society Festival and Asia Society Texas: The Love Songs of Tiedan, with filmmaker Hao Jie
Oct programmer, presentation by Duke University Press Senior Acquisitions Editor, Courtney Berger
4/18 guest speaker, Rienzi Museum, House, and Gardens, Houston: “‘An earthly Paradise of Or-mulu: Romantic Poetry and the Rienzi Collection.”
3/6-10 panelist, Society of Cinema Studies annual conference: “Surveillance and Celebrity.”
2/24 screening intro, Rice Media Center, “Taiwan New Wave: 30 Years Later”: In Our Time.
1/28 post-screening discussion, Museum of Fine Arts, Guild Association: The Story of Film (Part One)
2012
12/13 participant, University of Hong Kong, East Asian Policing Studies Forum Hong Kong: “Realities and Representations of Policing in Hong Kong.”
12/12 guest speaker, Lingan University, Hong Kong, Centre for Cinema Studies: “Rethinking Reflectionism: Cinema and the Hong Kong Police.”
12/10 guest speaker, Chinese University of Hong Kong: “Surveillance in the Comedies of Michael Hui.”
11/17 guest speaker, Taiwan Culture Center, Houston, TX: “A New Era in Taiwan Cinema: Cape No. 7 and You’re the Apple of My Eye.”
11/16, 18 film introduction, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: You’re the Apple of My Eye
9/20-22 founding and organizing committee, University of Houston, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, India Studies Symposium
9/22 programmer and post-screening discussion moderator: The Dirty Picture
1/5-8 respondant, Modern Languages Association annual conference: “Charlie Chan”
2011
12/2-4 advisor, “Spotlight on World Cinema: Taiwan.” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Oct screening commentary, Taiwanese Cultural Center, Houston: Pinoy Sunday
1/6-9 panelist Modern Languages Association annual conference, “Producing Periodization in the Long Eighteenth Century.”
2010
10/23 post-screening panelist, Rice University, Chao Center for Asian Studies: Disorder
10/22-23 Panelist, “The Missing Decades.” Rice University and the University of Houston, Long Nineteenth-Century Working Conference.
July screening intro, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Jewish Film Festival: Breath Made Visible
4/1-4 panelist, American Comparative Literature Association annual conference, “Made in Hong Kong.”
Mar award committee, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, NEH Fellowships
2009
7/30-31 film introduction, Houston premiere, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Cape No. 7
4/17 panelist, Rice University and the University of Houston, Current State of Empire Studies, “Colonial Scholarship and the Present Moment.”
March screening intro, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and 2nd annual Jewish Film Festival: Love Comes Lately
2007
7/8-13 participant, National Humanities Center, Summer Institute in Literary Studies, “Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes.”
3/30-31 panelist, Rice University and the University of Houston, Poetry in the Age of the Novel Conference, “The Poem on the Page.”
2/1-4 panelist, Literature and Film annual conference, Florida State University: “Beyond the Republic of Letters.”
2006
July panelist, University of Bristol and Roehampton University, Centre for Romantic Studies, Romanticism and Spectacle, “Nationhood and Empire,”
June participant, University of London, “The Verbal and the Visual in the Nineteenth Century”
May participant, University of Texas, Austin, South Asia Institute, “Teaching India Through Film,”
April presenter, Texas Christian University, Colloquium for Work-in-Progress: “L.E.L. at the Capitol: Corinne and the Making of the Giftbook Style.”
March panelist, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Rutgers University, “Empire”
3/3 panelist, University of Houston, Department of English, Graduate Professionalism Workshop, “Scholarly Publishing.”
2/4 panelist, University of Houston, Honors College, “The Future of Reading and the Study of Literature: New Questions, Fresh Possibilities.”
2004
Sept workshop leader, Rice University, Asian/Pacific American Student Association and Organization of Chinese Americans, “Images of Asian Americans in Hollywood Cinema.”
July panelist, Chawton House Library and University of Southampton, Women and Material Culture conference, “The Subjectivity of Things,”
May moderator, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX, “SLANT: Bold Asian American Images” (film festival).
March book launch, Kubrick Cinema Bookshop, Hong Kong: ”New Hong Kong Cinema” (book launch)
2003
August panelist, North American Association for Studies in Romanticism, “Commodity Culture,”
June participant, NEH Summer Seminar, West Virginia University: Susan Wolfson, “Romanticism and Gender”
May moderator, Aurora Picture Show, Houston: “SLANT: Bold Asian American Images” film festival
2000
October panelist and panel organizer, North American Conference for British Studies, “Remnants of Empire I: The ‘British World’ in the ‘American Century’”
April guest speaker, Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, film series: “The Cultures of Eating: Eat Drink Man Woman”
April panelist, Yale Center for British Art and Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies conference, “Periodical Productions”
1999
Nov guest speaker, Maryland Institute College of Art: “The City in Cinema: Metropolis”
Nov panelist, North American Conference for British Studies annual conference, “Gender, Representation and Consumption in Imperial Britain”
April guest speaker, Johns Hopkins University, Institute for Global Studies in Culture, Power, and History: “Nationspace and Cityscape Under Surveillance in Hong Kong Cinema”