CV
Education
York University, PhD Candidate in English & YCAR grad student associate (2021~)
Ryerson University, Continuing Studies: Practical Grammar and Punctuation (2017), Visual Skills in Publishing (2019)
University of Toronto, Master of Art (English/Diaspora and Transnational Studies) (2016)
University of Toronto, honours Bachelor of Art (2014)
University of Toronto, Bachelor of Education (Primary/Junior) (2014)
Conferences
York University EGSA Conference 2025 - Land and/as Body - The Blurred or Serrated Edge: Bookmaking as Poiesis paper presentation
MLA Convention 2025 - Just In Time: (Im)Moral Subjecthood And Literary Studies roundtable speaker
Dreamworlds, Endnotes 2024 - UBC English Graduate Conference: New Forests from Old Nightmares - The Lucid Dreaming of Robert Zhao paper presentation
Backreading Hong Kong Symposium 2023 - Translating Hong Kong 2: Translating Affect — Reading The Harcourt Village Scroll paper presentation
Congress 2023 - ACCUTE: Signatories of Longing — Identity-making in Asian diaspora paper presentation
TAships
EN2174 - 20th century Children’s Literature
EN2170 - Horror and Terror: Variations on Gothic
EN1201 - The Literary Imagination
EN1002 - Intertextualities
EN1001 - An Introduction to Literary Study
RAships
Manila in the Transoceanic Archive: The Poetics of Colonial Occupation, 1762–1764
Publications
“Affective Debris: Reading the Harcourt Village Scroll” - Hong Kong Dystopia, Hong Kong Unversity Press [forthcoming]
“Transmedial Meditations on the shores of Southeast Asia” - Wasafiri 116: Shoreline: South East Asia and the Littoral
Work
CURRENTLY
Managing Editor - Youth Critics Initiative
Seasonal Special (rarara.ca) - Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival
Facilitation
2024
Narrative / Writing – Unsung Voices, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival2023
Tea Practice and Writing – The stories our things tell of us, C Mag, Vitamin C programming
Workshop Facilitator - JAYU
Narrative / Writing – Unsung Voices, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival2022
Narrative / Writing – Unsung Voices, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival2021
Narrative / Writing – Unsung Voices, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival2020
Blackout Poetry – Tea Base, Year of the Mall Rat Festival
Narrative / Writing – Unsung Voices, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival
Career Development – Supporting Newcomer Access Project, Planned Parenthood2019
Zine 101 Guest Instructor (2 classes) – Equity Course, OISE, University of Toronto
Program Manager – Diasporasian Futures, Space-Making Stream
“Stories in Motion” Stop-Motion – Home Made Visible2018
Blackout Poetry – XYZ: Zines from Analogue to Digital, Cedarbrae Library2017
Writing – Medi(t)ations: A writing & zine program, Multi-Faith Centre at UofT
Zine Writing – ZIPE x Toronto Art Book Fair2016
Writing– The Diasporasian Writer Talkeratives Series
Writing – The Diasporasian Writer Talkeratives Series
Poetry Workshop– Too Close To Home, Writing Group at George Brown College
Poetry – the Re-Imagining Series – Multi-Faith Centre at UofT
Press/Podcasts
In the Wake of Many Afterlives - To Attend to Hope, with After Life, a comedy podcast (2024)
Food for Thought with Jasmine Gui, with Backstory Podcast (2023)
A Practice of One’s Own, with Betty Xie at Everyday Talent, Toronto (2022)
Have Heart and Humility with Jasmine Gui of LooseLeaf Magazine, Lit Mag Love x Room Magazine, Vancouver (2019)
Support Your Local Collective Radio, Episode 78 Feature, Toronto (2018)
“Meet the Toronto artist creating a safe space for Pan-Asian creatives” with Emerge Magazine (2017)
“Lattes with Ladies: Jasmine Gui” with Hot Pepper Latte
From Another Life
Program Supervisor – Codes of Contact Initiative (2020-2023)
Education & Industry Programmer – Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (2019-2021)
Grant Writer – Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (2019-2021)
Transcript Editor – Global Lingo (2017-2021)
Member Services – Artscape Daniels Launchpad (2019)
Reel Ideas Producer – Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (2018)
Festival Coordinator – Lights Dance Festival (2018-2020)
Consultant – Content Writing – AskforTask (2018)
Festival Coordinator – Regent Park Film Festival (2017)
SSAT Instructor – Ivy Global (2016 – 2018)
Publicist – In Sundry Languages with Toronto Laboratory Theatre (2017)
Festival Director – VIBE Arts Fest (2017)
Creative Consultant – Sweet Esc Dessert Cafe (2016 – 2017)
Marketing Coordinator – Attila Glatz Concert Productions (2016)
Programmer – Multi-Faith Centre at the University of Toronto (2015-2016)
Publicity Agent and Blogger – The Puritan (2015)
Copy Editor – The Culture Trip (2015)
Social Media Intern – SKETCH Working Arts (2015)
Communications – Emerging Young Artists (2015)
Editing
Beast at Every Threshold, Natalie Wee
Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines, Natalie Wee
Translation
Two Trees Make a Forest: On Memory, Migration and Taiwan by Jessica J. Lee (Primary source material)
Proofing / Typeset
The Lantern and the Night Moths, edited and translated by Yilin Wang
Collectives
TACLA (2019 – Present)
Project 40 Collective (2015 – 2021)
Magazines:
Managing Editor – LooseLeaf Magazine (2015 – 2021)
Assistant Director, Educational Arm – Asymptote Journal (2018)
Managing Editor, Production – The Offing Magazine (2017 – 2018)
Poetry Reader – Transcendence Magazine (2015)
Panels & Talks
Speaker - RISE Community Panel, Apathy is Boring
Speaker - On Chapbooks & Zines, University of Toronto English
Speaker - Artist Talk on Migratory Aesthetics, hosted by Hart House Student Art Committee and Library Committee (2022)
Moderator - Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival for (re)Rites of Passage Editors’ Table Talk (2021)
Panelist - UTSC – Anti-Asian Racism and Community Arts Activism (2021)
Panelist - TAC / TAF – What is Success? Metrics, Impact and Creative Practice(2021)
Panelist - Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies (UofT) – b2B (2021)
Panelist - Get Some Lit Mag Love at Growing Room Festival (2020)
Jury & Committees:
Juror - Creative Communities, TAC (2023)
Juror - Career Catalyst Project Grant, OAC (2022)
Juror - ArtReach Toronto – Juror (2021)
Juror - Ontario Arts Council – Juror (2018)
Advisory Committee - Riverdale Hub Gallery (2017)
Poetry Judge – MIST Toronto Poetry Competition (2016)
Awards & Scholarships
York Centre for Asian Research, Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award (2025)
Association for Asian Studies, East and Inner Asia Council (EIAC) (2025)
York University, Professional Development Fund (2024)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2021-2025)
York Graduate Scholarship (2021)
Grants
Canada Council for the Arts, Public Outreach for Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (2026)
Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Create (2025-2026)
Ontario Arts Council, Inter-Arts for Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (2022)
Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization (2021-2024)
Canada Council for the Arts, Public Outreach for Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (2021)
Ontario Arts Council, Media Arts Projects for TACLA (2020-2021)
Canada Council for the Arts, Digital Strategy Fund for Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (2020)
Canada Council for the Arts, Professional Development for jabs (2020)
Toronto Arts Council x ArtReach, Phase 2 for Project 40 Collective (2020)
Ontario Arts Council, Literary Creation (2020)
Toronto Arts Council, Visual and Media Arts for Project 40 Collective (2019)
Toronto Arts Council x ArtReach, Phase 1 for Project 40 Collective (2019)
Ontario Arts Council, Publishing for Project 40 Collective (2017)
Art Starts Platform A Micro-Grant Recipient for Project 40 Collective (2017)
Art Starts Platform A Micro-Grant Recipient for Project 40 Collective (2016)