In its broadest sense, my scholarship is characterized by my sustained effort to listen for marginalized voices, to unearth the experiences of disempowered and silenced figures. The primary focus of my current research is the exploration of identity formation and contestation in twentieth century multiethnic American fiction. I look at literary representations of fraught and fragmented identities—racial, communal, familial, civic, and national. My approach combines methodologies from literary and cultural studies, law, and racial formation and critical race theories.