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Vivian (PhD, UCLA English, 2022) is an Assistant Professor of English at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ (DUC). Her research and teaching focus upon late 19th-century American literature, feminist disability studies, race studies, performance, and writing pedagogy. Her monograph, UNDIAGNOSABLE: Women’s Disability Literature of the 19th-Century U.S.​, is the first book-length study of disability in 19th-century American women's literature.

Peer-reviewed articles have been published or are forthcoming in J19, Journal of Gender Studies, Disability Studies Quarterly, the Emily Dickinson Journal, Writing Across the Curriculum, and Literature and Medicine and in edited collections including Performing Hysteria, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Health Humanities, and Disability and Care. 

Vivian serves or recently served the Disability Law Journal at UCLA, the UCLA Center for Accessible Education, the Medical Humanities and Health Studies Executive Committee of the Modern Languages Association, and more.

Vivian is also a dancer and poet whose poems have appeared in the Atlanta Review, Broken Antler Magazine, Reformatting the Pain Scale, Magnets and Ladders, and Last Stanza Poetry Journal.

Education

UCLA, PhD, English 

UCLA, MA, English

Scripps College, BA, English, Minors: Dance and French

UCLA, Concentration Certificates, Gender Studies and Writing Pedagogy

Honors and Awards

• 2022, UCLA Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning Certificate
• 2021-2022, UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellowship
• 2021, Honorable Mention, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers Best Paper Contest
• 2021, Mellon Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms Fellowship: Health & Medical Humanities
• 2020-2021, UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship
• 2019-2020, UCLA English Department Dissertation Year Fellowship
• 2017, Mellon Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms Fellowship: Inclusive Classrooms