publications + events

Poetry & Prose [Journals / Anthologies]

“Talking Translation: A Dreamatic Work" published jointly in the Swedish journal Paletten and the US journal Fence (2024)

“Translating Guling: Technologies of Language, Race, and Resistance in Sweden” in Global Anti-Asian Racism, ed. Jennifer Ho (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023)*

“Men du är ju chinkipan,” in Ord & Bild (Fall 2022)

“All Students and Employees…Are to Have Equal Rights and Opportunities: Translating the Poetics of Neoliberal Academese” in New Perspectives on Academic Writing, ed. Bernd Herzogenrath (London: Bloomsbury, 2022)*

“The Here and There: On Refugees and Translation” in The Margins (Fall 2021)

“Skisser: Until Then, There Is This” in Tydningen #36 (Spring 2021)

“Maskätna ord / Maskäten oro: A Glossary” in Återskall / Again Bark: Läsningar och svar på Imri Sandströms Det kommande skallet / The Coming Shall (2020)

“Removal, Refusal, Rehearsal: 15 Fridays” in Women & Performance: Performances of Contingency: Feminist Relationality and Asian American Studies After the Institution (Volume 30, 2020)*

“Tillsammans Means Overlapping Edges, as in Tiles or Scales: Feeling Translation” in WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly (Fall/Winter 2019)*

“Translating Asian American Archival Poetics” in Tydningen #33/34 (Winter 2019)

“L1, eller: Tungans rätt i munnen” Provins (Fall 2019)

“Taxonomy of a Paternal Homunculus” Spoon River Poetry Review (Summer 2017)

“Roundtable: Child As Material,” e-flux Journal SUPERCOMMUNITY Special Edition for 56th Annual Venice Biennale (2015)

“Forum” (essay in response to Junot Diaz’s “MFA vs. POC”) The Asian American Literary Review (Fall/Winter 2014)*

“sky holds the timing” and “I am the same way you have” The Asian American Literary Review Special Issue: “Mixed Race in a Box” (2013)

“Asian American Studies: To Survive or to Thrive?” CUNY Forum (Inaugural Issue, Fall 2013)*

 “We Were Told To Be Afraid” e-flux Journal #22, “Idiot Wind: On the Rise of Right-Wing Populism in the U.S. and Europe, and What It Means for Contemporary Art,” edited by Paul Chan and Sven Lütticken. In collaboration with Benj Gerdes. (2011)

“Forum” (essay reflecting on pan-Asian solidarity after 9/11) The Asian American Literary Review (2011)

“On Peter Saul,” included in anthology Viva la Difference (NY: Off the Park Press, 2011)

 “Mulen Suburb” and “On Tourism” Harp & Altar (NY: Ellipsis Press 2010)

“California” and “Topology” Salt Hill (2009)

 “On Asian American Studies Today,” APA Newsletter on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies (Spring 2009)*

“No More Strike Anywhere,” Rethinking Marxism 20:2. In collaboration with Benj Gerdes. (April 2008)

“Two Men” and “From Kafka’s Diaries: 1919” Action, Yes (2006, online journal)

“Beginning, Middle, End” and “V,” Insurance (Summer 2003)

“Vacation Snapshots,” The Asian Pacific American Journal (Spring/Summer 2000)

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readings + events

Discussant, “Translating Across, Amid, Between: A Conversation,” Alfabeti del Corpo: Gender, Translation & Activism (NYU Florence, 2024)

Reading from Autobiografi av död by Kim Hyesoon (with Andjeas Ejiksson), MINT poesifestival (Stockholm, 2024)

Presentation as part of “First Times Do Not Exist: Translating and Citing as Relational Practices of Re-use,” organized by Eva Maria Weynmar & Femke Snelting (Göteborgs litteraturhus, 2023)

Discussant, with Mara Lee Gerdén, Ulrika Dahl, Oscar Guermouche, and Sandra Praun, “Writing, Love, and the Other” (The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, 2023)

Reading from Knappt krig by Don Mee Choi, Klubb 20TAL (Stockholm, 2023)

Discussant, “Tolka din diktvärld – tre översättare i samtal med Kim Hyesoon,” Stockholm Poesifestival (Stockholm, 2022)

Discussant, “Tranan Sessions” speakers series with Samantha Schweblin, Megha Majumdar, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Emilio Fraia (Stockholm, 2022 – 2023)

Discussant, with Mara Lee Gerdén and Niclas Hval, “Översättning, representation och identitet” (Göteborg Book Fair, 2020)

Discussant, with Balsam Karam, “Amfi: samtal om ny dramatik” (Göteborg, Spring 2020)

Discussant, with Trinh T. Minh-ha, Crosscuts: Stockholm Environmental Humanities Festival for Film & Text (Stockholm, Fall 2019)

“Words Are Bodies Up Against Borders: A Conversation About Translation & Race with Jennifer Hayashida,” LTAC: Literary Translation at Columbia University (New York, NY 2017)

“Workshop on International Poetry, Translation, and Language Justice” Symposium: Poetry as Pluriverse, Heyman Center at Columbia University (New York, NY 2017)

“Solmaz Sharif i samtal med Ida Börjel och Jennifer Hayashida” (Göteborgs Litteraturhus, Cyklopen - Bandhagen, Östervärns Antikvariat & S:t Petri Kyrka - Malmö, 2017)

Translation Seminar taught by Anna Moschovakis, Pratt Institute (New York, NY 2017)

“Students” Sense of Emergency: Politics, Aesthetics, Trumpism New York University (New York, 2017)

Us & Them Reading Series, Molasses Books (New York, NY 2016)

“Ida Börjel, Jennifer Hayashida & Hugo García Manríquez” Studio One Art Centre (Oakland, CA 2016)

“Jenny Tunedal, Ida Börjel, Jennifer Hayashida & Uljana Wolf” Berl’s Poetry Shop (New York, NY 2016)

“Avant Poetry and Politics” The Asian American Writers’ Workshop (New York, NY 2016)

“Singapore Unbound” The Asian American Writers’ Workshop (New York, NY 2016)

“Poetry Poetry Episode IV” The Asian American Writers’ Workshop (New York, 2016)

“Translate This” Pratt Institute (New York, 2016)

“Film :: Theory” screening series, New York University (New York, NY 2016)

“International Bodies Do Decent Work,” Lines + Nodes Symposium, New York University (New York, NY 2014)

Presenting at 17 Artist Series, New York (New York, NY 2014)

“Lit Up Your Day!” Columbia University (New York, NY 2013)

Argos Books Poetry Reading, Brooklyn (New York, NY 2013)

Kundiman Poetry Reading, New York (New York, NY 2013)

“Asian American Women,” LaGuardia Community College (New York, NY 2012)

Invited Guest Lecturer and Visiting Artist: Duke University Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies (Durham, NC 2011)

Invited Guest Lecturer, “A Way With Words: Narrative/Poetry/Art” Parsons the New School for Design – School of Art, Media, and Technology (New York, NY 2011)

“NY Faculty Seminar in Asian American Studies,” CUNY Asian American/Asian Research Institute (New York, NY 2010)

Invited Guest Lecturer (with Benj Gerdes), Department of Art, Architecture and Planning, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY 2010)

“Potentials for Collective Research and Action: Activism, Analysis, and Aesthetics at a Crossroads” The New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, NY 2010)

NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) Artist Presentation at APICHA – Asian Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS (New York, NY 2010)

Featured Artist (with Benj Gerdes), Flaherty Film Seminar (Hamilton, NY & New York, NY 2010)

“The Asian American Avant-Garde” New York University Creative Writing MFA Program (New York, NY 2010)

Lunar New Year Reading, The Asian American Writers’ Workshop (New York, NY 2009)

“Translating Fredrik Nyberg” Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY 2009)

“The State of Asian American Studies Today” Asian American Heritage Event, NY City Hall (New York, NY 2009)

“Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner” The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (New York, NY 2009)

“Beyond Harold and Kumar: Representations in a Not-Yet-Post-Racial Era” PageTurner, The Asian American Literary Festival (Brooklyn, NY 2009)

“Asian American Activism: From the Classroom to the Streets” New York City Asian American Student Conference, New York University (New York, NY 2008)

“Asian American Studies: Respected Discipline or Soon to Be Forgotten Fad?” New York City Asian American Student Conference, New York University (New York, NY 2008)

“Fredrik Nyberg, Johannes Göransson, Jennifer Hayashida” Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, NY 2008)

Zinc Bar Reading Series (New York, NY 2008)

Stain of Poetry Reading Series (New York, NY 2008)

Cup & Pen Reading Series (New York, NY 2007)

“Video works and poetic texts: an afternoon in translation, with Ayreen Anastas, Jennifer Hayashida, Lana Lin and Jesal Kapadia” (New York, NY 2006)

Unnameable Books Poetry Reading (Brooklyn, NY 2006)

Canessa Park Reading Series (San Francisco, CA 2006)

CCCP: The CUNY Conference on Contemporary Poetry at the Graduate Center (New York, NY 2005)

Circumference Magazine Reading at The Bowery Poetry Club, (New York, NY 2005)

conference presentations

Presentation, “Translating the Translator: Enacting Don Mee Choi’s Anti-Neocolonial Poetry in Swedish,” Biennial Conference of the Nordic Association for American Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden (May 2023) 

Presidential Plenary Speaker,”Precarity in Asian American Studies,” 25th Anniversary Meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies, San Francisco, CA (March 2018) 

Organizer & Chair, “How to Sound Brown: Crossing out Borders and Bodies in Translation” Annual Meeting of the American Literary Translators Association, Oakland, CA (October 2016) 

Panelist, “The Immigrant as Translator” Annual Meeting of the American Literary Translators Association, Oakland, CA (October 2016) 

Organizer & Chair, “Terminal Degrees: APA MFAs in the Academy” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies, San Francisco, CA (April 2014) 

Panelist, “Picture This: Shifting Perspectives in Asian American Art” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies, San Francisco, CA (April 2014) 

Panelist, “The Middle Finger to the Middle Way: Roadkill, Terrorists, and the Swedish Welfare State” Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association, New York University, NY (March 2014) 

Panelist, “Ethnic Studies in a Moment of Danger” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Washington D.C. (November 2013) 

Organizer & Panelist, “Myths and Realities for Asian Pacific American Faculty and Students” CUNY Conference on Faculty Diversity and Inclusion, CUNY Graduate Center, NY (March 2013) 

Panelist, “Building and Developing Asian American Studies Programs” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies, Seattle, WA (April 2013) 

Panelist, “It Takes a Village: Building Support Structures for Mixed Race Students in Higher Education” NCORE: National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in Higher Education, New Orleans, LA (May 2013) 

Organizer & Respondent “New Imaginings in Asian American Studies Scholarship” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies, Washington D.C. (April 2012) 

Panelist, “All in the Family: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Kinship and Community” Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY (March 2010) 

Panelist, “As Is: On Radical Pedagogy and Mixed Race Memoirs” Southern CT State University Women’s Studies Conference, New Haven, CT (April 2010) 

Organizer & Panelist, “Uneven Contours: Teaching Asian American Studies in a ‘Fragmented’ Classroom,” The Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, Austin, TX (April 2010) 

Panelist, “Emergent Cartographies” The Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies, Austin, TX (April 2010)