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Amy teaches in a variety of areas, from literature and writing to Core, Honors, and Service-Learning courses. Her courses have covered such topics as nineteenth-century British literature, children’s literature, dystopian science fiction, literary monstrosity, critical media studies, reading popular media, the study of film and drama, fiction and poetry, and effective communication.

Education

UCLA, PhD, English

Long Island University, MSc, Education

Harvard College, BA, History and Literature

Research Interests

Amy’s areas of research and expertise include Victorian literature and culture, media theory, critical race studies, postcolonial and anticolonial approaches to literature, Asian diasporic literature and psychoanalysis. Her book, (Stanford University Press, 2023), examines how “failures” of speech in late Victorian stories of empire inadvertently disrupt seemingly self-evident truths about speech: that words originate in and belong to single bodies. By turning attention to an anticolonial poetics of “un-self possessed” speech, the book posits talk as an alternate model of communication that leaves behind colonialist proprietary logic, functioning instead through communal ownership and embeddedness within the material, social world.

Amy has co-edited a special issue, “Undisciplining Victorian Studies” in Victorian Studies (with Ronjaunee Chatterjee and Alicia Mireles Christoff, 2020), and co-written an introductory essay which won the Donald Gray Prize for Best Essay in Victorian Studies. She is currently at work on two new book projects: On Being Quiet: Resisting the Talking Cure in Asian America, which examines how the intersections of anti-Asian racism and unmetabolized historical violence across the Asian continent during the Cold War era have created double binds on speaking for the contemporary Asian American subject; and Realisms at the Brink: The Victorian Novel and Chinese Contemporary Film, which compares how Chinese neorealist film and the Victorian novel respectively conceptualize major historical changes including industrialization, urbanization, resource extraction, and the rise of migrant labor.

Amy’s published articles and essays may be found in Mediations, Narrative, Victorian Review, Victorian Literature and Culture, Modern Philology, SEL: Studies in English Literature, Studies in the Novel, and Literature Compass, as well as ASAP Journal, Post45, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, and Parapraxis.