Copyediting
“Working with Bo over the past five years has been such an incredible privilege and joy. Bo will carefully assess and work with you and your project with a level of complete professionalism, organization, flexibility, clarity, precision and care that is all too rare. Bo truly ushered me through the finish line in editorial completion of my dissertation chapters, writing that was at various stages and in need of different types of editing (formatting, grammar, citations, reference check, organization, conceptual rework). With special graduate training in queer/trans of color critique, feminist theory to visual culture, Bo’s training as an interdisciplinary scholar and incredible multidisciplinary artist means that he always brings creative and rigorous insight with the language/concepts/ideas in my field. If anything, Bo elevated the precision of my argumentation and was able to offer generative feedback as to what clarity was still needed in terms of the architecture of each chapter. I would not have been able to complete my doctoral project without his incredible, on track, on time and on point editorial work!!”
— Ren-yo Hwang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Critical Social Thought and Gender Studies, Mount Holyoke College
“Bo is on the top of my list as an editor, as well as a wide range of critical and creative projects. I am continually impressed by Bo’s interdisciplinarity as an insightful, powerful scholar, artist and organizer. Bo has helped me bring to life several special academic journal issues on postcolonial visual cultures, gender and representation. Bo is consistently reliable, astute and caring about positive outcomes.”
— Việt Lê, PhD, MFA, Associate Professor, Visual Studies, California College of the Arts
“I am truly grateful for the opportunity to work with Bo. Not only is his work accurate, but his critical comments based on his interdisciplinary training enabled me to think deeper about my materials and find different angles to see my work. Reading his professional and warm advice was a precious experience that gave me joy and confidence in the process of writing.”
— Marie Nitta, PhD, Assistant Professor, British and American Studies and Global Studies, Musashi University
Guest Lecturing
“Bo is an incredibly captivating speaker and skilled lecturer who brings together both the theoretical and material aspects of the content he addresses. He is compassionate toward students and deeply invested in social justice issues. Furthermore, Bo challenges students to think beyond societal and cultural norms, while also encouraging them to complicate their understanding of cultural production as both product and process—artifact and artifice. Any classroom environment would benefit greatly from having Bo as a guest speaker!”
— A. Ikaika Gleisberg, PhD, Assistant Professor, The Gender Institute for Teaching & Advocacy, Metropolitan State University of Denver
Academic Coaching
“Bo has been great, very flexible with scheduling and very generous with his time. His support has been above and beyond what I expected. His comments were detailed, insightful, and extremely helpful. Bo was very thorough and thoughtful with his feedback, which helped me improve my work and skills tremendously.”
— Kayan, cartoonist, MFA Comics, California College of the Arts, 2016
“It has been great working with Bo. He is very patient, thoughtful and kind. I really thank him for helping me with all kinds of writing, including resume, applications, essays, and creative poetry. Bo helps me to generate ideas as well as correct grammar. He asks great questions and helps me to understand myself better. He challenges me and helps me to grow tremendously. He is a wonderful coach.”
— Zhou Zoe Yuan, BFA Jewelry/Metal Arts, California College of the Arts, 2016
“Bo is an excellent writing coach! He has helped me with both my resume and artist statement, and I really felt much more confident with the structure and content of my writing after receiving his assistance. He is really good about giving personal examples of how he has approached a piece of writing in the past, which I found to be very constructive. Keep up the great work, and thank you for your help!”
— Brittany, Individualized Major, California College of the Arts
“Bo has been my favorite writing coach I’ve ever had. I really appreciated the sincerity with which he helped refine and make my essays stronger. I was working on a paper that was more argumentative, an approach I was very uncomfortable writing about. Bo helped me write more assertively and challenged some of the claims I made. Besides being a fantastic tutor- Bo is very knowledgeable and insightful in general- he helped me understand my own research in the broader themes of gender and oppression. At the end of your session with Bo, not only is your paper grammatically tighter, your research also feels more informed and thorough. I can’t recommend Bo enough. I feel really fortunate to have gotten a chance to be tutored by him.”
— Tenzin Tsomo, BFA Textiles, California College of the Arts, 2017
“Bo is a great coach/teacher and an amazing help. In regards to writing and verbal communication, Bo has assisted in teaching me the skills to grow. He helped me organize and structure my essays and gave me an understanding on how to do that for myself. I worked very closely with Bo with citations and it was imperative for me to write and understand those conventions and he really made it happen.
Most importantly, Bo has explained the concepts of reading and writing, and visual and critical analysis in ways that I can better plan my projects. He has helped me ground my work in stable ways through asking questions and giving me options to organize large writing projects. Bo also played a large part in helping me think critically about the shifts in my thesis project that dealt with race, gender, and oppression. It has been a very good experience to meet coaches that both understand critical theory and know how to teach.”
— Marissa, Oakland, CA
“Bo was amazing; He helped me articulate ideas that I could not find words for, and synthesize my seemingly disparate topics. Not only did he help my work grow, but he helped me understand myself better. Not only did I feel helped and respected, but I felt understood on a deep level. This was the best experience I have ever had with an LRC coach.”
— California College of the Arts Learning Resource Center student
“Bo has been an inspirational figure. The way he intellectually forms connections between ideas and the level of patience / understanding that he exudes makes him a very comfortable person to work with.”
— California College of the Arts Learning Resource Center student
“Amazing. The coach was super helpful in re-structuring my thesis chapter draft. I actually wanted to meet for a second time but ran up against tight deadlines. Surprisingly the coach was so helpful that perhaps I was able to finish up the chapter corrections on my own.”
— California College of the Arts Learning Resource Center student
“Bo was a great instructor. He really pushed me to think for myself and by myself.”
— California College of the Arts Learning Resource Center student
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