Teaching

I’m a core faculty at the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. I am affiliated with Moving Image, Media, and Sound, the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change.

At the University of Minnesota, I regularly offer undergraduate-level courses, namely, Southeast Asian Cinema and Graphic Novels: Conflicts, Peace, and Protest. In the past, I offered graduate-level seminars on topics ranging from political cinema to media ecology and the Global South. In Fall 2024, I’m offering a new seminar topic: Theory/Praxis/Politics: The Making of Asian Cinema.

If you are interested in any of my courses, please contact me via email.

Teaching diary: I felt an absolute honor to be part of the classes of 2020-2022 — the years of chaos and confusion. Cheers to those who graduated during the pandemic time!

Above are some of the pictures of the films we watched, art exhibitions we visited, and some performances we participated in as part of my curriculum in film and media studies.