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Sophia’s research and teaching interests include contemporary Asian American literature, 20th- and 21st- century Global Anglophone literature, affect theory, and media studies. She is working on a book manuscript entitled “Feeling Onwards: Model Minority Affects in Contemporary Asian American Literature” that argues that contemporary Asian American narratives surrounding upward mobility utilize unique affective strategies that sidestep, without denying, racial trauma as an origin story of Asian America.

Additional projects include one on Asian American care workers and emotional labor that asks how fictional narratives comment on the devaluation of Asian care work; another examines how Buddhist mindfulness practices produce a distinct Asian American literary form and politics. Sophia’s work can be found forthcoming in The Journal of Asian American Studies and published in Amerasia, ASAP/J, and The Georgia Review.