P Lai

Biographic Data

ID24669
NAMEP Lai
GIVEN NAMESP
FAMILY NAMELai
SIGNATURELAI P
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Sydney
ORCID0009-0000-7435-4408
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Enhancing learning of nanoscale phenomena: The role of agent-based models and embodied reasoning

    Open AccessP Lai, Polly K LaiARTICLEInstructional Science2026References: 77

    Understanding nanoscale phenomena poses significant challenges for students because it requires reasoning about emergent behaviours that are invisible and highly abstract. Agent-based models (ABMs) can function as embodied learning environments, enabling students to manipulate individual agents and observe system-level outcomes while engaging embodied processes such as perspective taking, causal inference, and motor-supported thinking. In this st…

  • Discontiguous States of America: The Paradox of Unincorporation in Craig Santos Perez’s Poetics of Chamorro Guam

    Open AccessP LaiARTICLEJournal of Transnational American…2011Cited by: 2References: 4

    Eclipsed by other islands incorporated into the United States after the Spanish-American War of 1898, Guam has nevertheless played a crucial role in the development of the American Pacific as a strategic military site. Like other territories of the United States, Guam’s ambiguous legal status and the presence of native peoples, cultures, and histories signal the paradox of unincorporated territories that troubles the issues of belonging and ident…

  • Theorizing Asian American Fiction

    Stephen Hong Sohn, P Lai et al.ARTICLEMFS Modern Fiction Studies2010

    Theorizing Asian American Fiction Stephen Hong Sohn (bio), Paul Lai (bio), and Donald C. Goellnicht (bio) In assessing the state of Asian American literary studies, Susan Koshy claims that, “Although substantial historical scholarship has been produced, the field has been weak in theoretical work, especially when compared to Chicano, Native American and African American Studies. The lack of significant theoretical work has affected its developmen…

  • Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry Since 1965 (review)

    P Lai, Paul Lai Paul LaiARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…2010

    Journal Article Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry Since 1965. Timothy Yu. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. xi + 192 pages. $45.00 cloth. Get access Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry Since 1965. Timothy Yu. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. xi + 192 pages. $45.00 cloth. Paul Lai Paul Lai University of Saint Thomas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…

  • Hemispheric American Studies (review)

    P Lai, Paul Lai Paul LaiARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…2009

    Hemispheric American Studies. Ed. Caroline F. Levander and Robert S. Levine. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 2008. vii + 356 pages. $70.00 cloth; $27.95 paper. Get access Hemispheric American Studies. Ed. Caroline F. Levander and Robert S. Levine. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 2008. vii + 356 pages. $70.00 cloth; $27.95 paper. Paul Lai Paul Lai University of Saint Thomas Search for other works by this aut…

  • Stinky Bodies: Mythological Futures and the Olfactory Sense in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl

    P LaiARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…2008Cited by: 3

    Journal Article Stinky Bodies: Mythological Futures and the Olfactory Sense in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl Get access Paul Lai Paul Lai Univesity of Saint Thomas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 33, Issue 4, December 2008, Pages 167–187, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/33.4.167 Published: 01 December 2008

  • Forthcoming Melus issue on Asian-American SF

    P LaiARTICLEScience Fiction Studies2007

  • Teaching Texts Unexpected Sites of Knowledge and Practice: Part One of a Two-Part Forum

    Yoonmee Chang, Tina Chen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Asian American Studies2006

    Teaching Texts: Unexpected Sites of Knowledge and PracticePart One of a Two-Part Forum Yoonmee Chang (bio), Tina Chen (bio), Shilpa Davé (bio), Jennifer Ho (bio), and Paul Lai (bio) Introduction Yoonmee Chang WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THERE are no Asian American students in an Asian American Studies (AAS) classroom? What does it mean when there are only Asian American students in an AAS classroom? What do these polarized classroom situations tell us abou…