I am literary and cultural studies scholar of Asian American and Asian Canadian studies whose work focuses on migration, diaspora and imperialism. My most recent book Brutal Fantasies: Imagining North Korea in the Long Cold War considers North Korea’s position within a global imagination, particularly for the Korean diaspora and Korean migrants. My current research project, Illiberal Korean Diasporas, asks how post-Cold War Korean and Korean diasporic literature and film return to the histories of Korean migration to Russia and Central Asia. In doing so, the project poses questions about migration, cultural memory, imperialism and Cold War legacies.