Her work draws upon discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, applied linguistics, and education. Lo is the co-editor of Beyond Yellow English: Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America (OUP, 2009) and co-editor of the 2012 special issue of the Journal of Sociolinguistics on “Globalization, multilingualism and identity in transnational perspective: The case of South Korea.” Lo’s recent research examines the plight of South Korean returnees from study abroad; media representations of Korean Americans in the South Korean popular media; and the history of the racialization of Asian American linguistic competencies. Lo is also co-editor of South Korea’s Education Exodus: The Life and Times of Early Study Abroad (University of Washington Press, forthcoming).