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Professional History
- Distinguished Professor, Film and Digital Media, University of California at Santa Cruz, 2021-Present
- Professor, School of Cinema, SFSU, 2016-2021
- Visiting Professor, Cinema and Sociology/ Sexuality Studies Departments, 2015-16
- Professor, Asian American, Feminist and Film and Media, University of California at Santa Barbara, 2011-2015
- Senior Faculty Fellow, University of Sydney, Australia, 2014
- Visiting Professor, University of California at Santa Cruz, 2012
- External Faculty Fellow, Research Institute for Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University, 2009-2011
- Associate Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara, 2006-2011
- Assistant Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara, 2001-2006
Courses Taught
- Introduction to Cinema Studies
- Race and Hollywood Cinema
- Race and Independent Cinema
- Sex, Power, Politics
- Theories of Sexuality
- Sex in Cinema: Ethics
- Race, Sex and Identity Online: Pop Stars of Color
- Women and Documentary Film: Women of Color Race and Hollywood Film
- Film Genres
- Film and Philosophy: Foucault
- The Hypersexuality of Race
- Narrative Film Production Workshop
- Theories and Methods in Asian American Studies
- Asian Americans and Hollywood
- Asian American Independent Media
- Asian American Documentary Practices
- Asian American Sexualities
- Asian Americans and Popular Culture
- Introduction to Popular Culture
- Transnational Asian American Cinema
- Television Production
- Transnational Intimacies
- Race, Sex and Cinema
- Performance and Ethnography
- Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology
- Philippine Diaspora Cinema