curriculum vitae cv — Paul Nadal

PAUL NADAL, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES • PRINCETON UNIVERSITY • CAMPUS MAILBOX: 22 MCCOSH HALL, PRINCETON, NJ 08544–1016 • C.V. UPDATED: 26 APRIL 2026

EDUCATION

	2017	University of California, Berkeley, M.A., Ph.D. in Rhetoric John L. Simpson Dissertation Fellow, Institute of International Studies Dissertation Chairs: Judith Butler (Rhetoric/Comparative Literature) and Colleen Lye (English)
	2007	University of California, Los Angeles, M.A. in Asian American Studies
	2005	University of Washington, B.A. in English and American Ethnic Studies
ADDITIONAL STUDIES
	2013	London Graduate School, Summer Academy in the Critical Humanities
	2007-08	Duke University, Graduate Study, Program in Literature
	2004	University of the Philippines, Certificate in Philippine Studies
RESEARCH INTERESTS
	Asian American Studies, Ethnic Studies Postcolonial and Global Anglophone Literature Marxism, Aesthetics, History and Theory of the Novel

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
	2019—	Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Dept. of English and the Program in American Studies
	2018-19	Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Postdoctoral Research Associate, Program in American Studies
	2017-18	Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, American Studies Program
	2015-17	The New School, New York, NY Visiting Assistant Professor, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, PRIZES

	2025	Carlos Bulosan Excellence in Scholarship, awarded by the Filipino Studies section in the Association of Asian American Studies for best academic publication by scholars who center Filipino Studies published during the period between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2023.
	2023-26	Laurance S. Rockefeller University Preceptorship, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University.
	2023	Research Grant ($5,200), University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (UCRHSS), Princeton University, for “Remittances, Literary and Economic.”
	2023	Curriculum Development Grant ($22,375) for developing a lecture course on “Asian American Literature.” 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education, Princeton University.
	2023	Research Grant ($6,600), University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (UCRHSS), Princeton University, for “An Imperial Remittance: The 1898 Treaty of Paris and the US Acquisition of Philippine Land.”
	2021	1921 Prize for Best Essay in American Literature for “Cold War Remittance Economy: US Creative Writing and the Importation of New Criticism into the Philippines,” American Quarterly 73.3 (2021). The 1921 Prize is awarded annually by the Advisory Council of the American Literature Society for “the best article in any field of American literature.”
	2021	Research Grant ($2,980), University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (UCRHSS), Princeton University, for “Chicago’s Asia”
	2020	Curriculum Development Grant ($8,380) for new Junior Research Seminar on the topic of the “Scale of the World,” 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education, Princeton University.
	2020	First Book Institute Fellowship — “Remittance Fiction” among 8 projects selected out of 65 manuscripts to participate in a week-long symposium hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University (May 31-June 6).
	2020	Research Grant ($5,500), University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (UCRHSS), Princeton University, for “The Philippine Labor Diaspora and the Middle East.”
	2018	Special Dissertation Grant, Faculty Awards and Entitlements, Wellesley College.
	2017-19	Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Studies, American Studies Program, Wellesley College. Two-year fellowship, availed one year (2017–18).
	2017-19	Florence Levy Kay Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Pacific Islander Studies, Department of English and Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature, Brandeis University (declined)
	2017	Block Grant for Dissertation Completion, Dept. of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley
	2015	Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley
	2014-15	John L. Simpson Dissertation Fellowship, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
	2014	The History Project Grant, Joint Centre for History and Economics, University of Cambridge and Harvard University
	2014	Summer Fellowship, Institute of Philippine Culture, Ateneo de Manila University
	2011, 2009	Wollenberg Grant, Dept. of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley
	2008-10	Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley
	2008	Chancellor’s Prize Award for Ph.D. studies in Comparative Literature, UCLA (declined)
	2008	UC Regents’ Fellowship for Ph.D. studies in Culture and Theory, UC Irvine (declined)
	2007-08	Graduate Program in Literature Fellowship for Ph.D. in Literature, The Graduate School, Duke University, availed one year (2007–08)
	2007	Nakanishi Best Graduate Paper Prize in Asian American Literature for “Toward a Political Economy of Desire.” Asian American Studies Center, UCLA
	2006-07	Institute of American Cultures Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, UCLA
	2005-06	M.A. Thesis Writing Fellowship, UCLA
	2002	Freshman Recognition Award, University of Washington

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Remittances, Literary and Economic (under contract and forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press)
The Asian American Character of Human Capital, Automation, and Logistics (in progress)

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

“The Exhaustion of Asian American Literature” (in preparation)

“How Neoliberalism Remade the Model Minority Myth.” Representations 163 (August 2023): 79–99. Special Issue on “Proxy Wars,” edited by Kent Puckett and Yoon Sun Lee. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2023.163.5.79

“Carlos Bulosan, Socialist?” Verge: Studies in Global Asias 9.1 (2023): 64–69. https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2023.0003

“Cold War Remittance Economy: US Creative Writing and the Importation of New Criticism into the Philippines.”* American Quarterly 73.3 (2021): 557–595. Special Issue on “Language, Multilingualism, and Translation in American Studies,” edited by Vicente L. Rafael and Mary Louise Pratt. https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2021.0036

* Prize citation: Best Essay Prize, from the Advisory Council of the American Literature Society, for “the best article in any field of American Literature,” and presented on the occasion of the American Literature Society's 100th anniversary.

* Prize citation: Carlos Bulosan Excellence in Scholarship Award, from the Filipino Studies section in the Association of Asian American Studies in recognition of the article’s “substantial contribution to the field of Filipina/o/x American Studies.

“A Literary Remittance: Juan C. Laya’s His Native Soil and the Rise of Realism in the Filipino Novel in English.” American Literature 89.3 (2017): 591–626. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4160906

EDITED SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS

“The Asian American Century: Idea, Method, Media,” co-editor with Christopher T. Fan, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, and Tina Chen. Special Issue of Verge: Studies in Global Asia 11.2 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2025.a967612

“Cold War, Decolonization, Neoliberalism,” co-editor with Jini Kim Watson (New York University). Special Issue project under development.

BOOK CHAPTERS

“Infrastructural Futures: Arroyo’s Philippines in a Technological Frame.” Beauty and Brutality: Manila and its Global Discontents, edited by Martin F. Manalansan IV, Rolando B. Tolentino, and Robert G. Diaz, 198–219. Temple University Press, 2023.

SHORT ESSAYS & REVIEWS

“On Remaindered Life: Neferti X. M. Tadiar in Conversation with Erica R. Edwards, Paul Nadal, and Jasbir K. Puar.” Social Text 42.2 (2024): 55–74. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-11084522

“Migrant Returns.” Review of Eric J. Pido’s Migrant Returns (Duke University Press, 2017). Journal of Asian American Studies 21.2 (2018): 329–382. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2018.0018

“How to Catch a Philippine Serial Killer.” Review of F. H. Batacan’s Smaller and Smaller Circles (Soho Press, 2015). Public Books, Dec. 15. https://publicbooks.org/how-to-catch-a-philippine-serial-killer

“Revolution Amnesia.” Review of Gina Apostol’s Gun Dealers’ Daughter (Norton, 2012). Public Books, Dec. 12, 2012. https://publicbooks.org/revolution-amnesia

“Building Times: How Lines of Care Occupied Wheeler Hall.” With Amanda Armstrong. Reclamations Journal 1.1 (Dec. 2009).

CONFERENCES, LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS
CONFERENCE & SYMPOSIA CONVENING
	2019-20	“Celebrating New Asian American Writing.” Year-long speaker series co-organized with Anne A. Cheng. Speakers featured: Min Jin Lee, Jessica Hagedorn, Karan Mahajan, Jia Tolentino, Elaine Castillo, Yiyun Li, among others. Program in American Studies, Princeton University.
	2019	“Japanese/America: Transpacific and Hemispheric.” Principal organizer and moderator. Panelists invited: Karen Tei Yamashita, Karen Umemoto, Iyko Day, and Andrew Leong. Princeton University, Feb. 15.
	2009	“Queer Bonds: A Symposium on Sexuality and Sociability.” Member of organizing board for three-day symposium at the University of California, Berkeley. Speakers featured: Leo Bersani, Judith Butler, Mel Chen, Tim Dean, David M. Halperin, Heather K. Love, Elizabeth Povinelli, Jonathan M. Hall, Jasbir Puar, among others. Feb. 19-21.
CONFERENCES — PANELS CHAIRED & ORGANIZED
	2026	“The Labor Behind the Miracle: Precarity and Prosperity in East Asia.” Chair and respondent. With Ki Cora Chow, Jianqing Chen, Shirl Yang. Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP), Madison, WI. Oct. 15–17.
	2025	“The Asian Century? Race, Empire, and Capital in the Time of Hegemonic Crisis.” Chair and respondent. With Cheryl Narumi Naruse, Fay Lin, Stephanie Kung, and Yasmin Yoon. American Studies Association (ASA), San Juan Puerto Rico, IL. Nov. 20.
	2025	“Decolonization and Genealogies of Neoliberalism.” Co-organizer with Jini Kim Watson. Panel with Arnav Adhikari, Kaagni Harekal, Justin L. Mann, Jerrine Tan, Mason Wong. MLA Convention, New Orleans, LA. Jan. 10.
	2023	“Socially Necessary Labor Time and the Future of Realism.” Seminar co-organizer with Alden Sajor Marte-Wood. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Chicago, IL. March 16–19.
	2021	“Filipinx Racialization and Histories of Racial Capitalism.” Co-organizer with Adrian De Leon. American Studies Association (ASA), San Juan, Puerto Rico (Online). Oct.
	2021	“Media and Representation.” Invited chair and responded. Panel with Argyro Nicolaou, Max Cavitch, Somita Sabeti, and Rahul Bjørn Parson. Sponsored by the Migration Lab of Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS). “Language and Migration: Experience and Memory,” April 23.
	2021	“Migrant Worker Literature.” Organizer and respondent. Special session sponsored by CLCS Forum on Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian Diasporic. Modern Language Association (MLA), Toronto, Canada (Online). January.
	2020	“Filipinx Racialization and Histories of Racial Capitalism.” Co-organizer with Adrian De Leon. American Studies Association (ASA), Baltimore, MD. Nov. 12-15. (Accepted; cancelled due to Covid-19)
	2020	“Memoir and the Model Minority Since the Cold War.” Chair. Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), Washington, D.C. April. (Invited; cancelled due to Covid-19)
	2019	“Literature as Insurrection: An International Roundtable on Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto.” Organizer and chair. American Studies Association (ASA), Honolulu, HI. Nov. 8.
	2019	“Asian American Adoption, Kinship, Nation.” Chair. Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), Madison, WI. April 27.
	2019	“Genre and Neoliberalism.” Seminar co-organizer with Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Georgetown University, Washington D.C. March 7-10.
CONFERENCES — PAPERS & ROUNDTABLES
	2026	“Social Reproduction Theory.” Roundtable, convened by Alden Sajor Marte-Wood. The Marxist Literary Group’s Institute on Culture and Society 2026 Meeting: “Theory and Practice at Square One.” UC Berkeley. June 16–20.
	2026	“Genre and Asian American Literary Studies.” Panel on “Remapping Genre,” convened by Amy Tang, with Yu-ting Huang and Libby Kao. Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), Honolulu, HI. Invited. April 2–4.
	2025	“The Exhaustion of Asian American Criticism; or, How to Read After Self-Consciousness.” Panel on “Forms of Asian American Self-Consciousness,” convened by Michelle N. Huang, with Christopher T. Fan. ASAP/16, Houston, TX. Invited. Oct. 22–25.
	2025	“Land Fiction and the Prehistory of Labor Export.” Panel on “Recentering Labor in Asian American Studies,” convened by Jane Komori, with Mieko Inge Kurata Anders, moderated by Jodi S. Kim. Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), Boston, MA. Invited. April 17–19.
	2025	“To Be Millions / Outside Yourself: ‘Solidarity’ in Carlos Bulosan.” Roundtable on “Solidarities,” convened by Janice Ho and Brenna Munro, on behalf of the Executive Forum on Global Anglophone literature, with Anna Bernard, Tiana Reid, and Eylaf Bader Eddin. MLA Convention, New Orleans, LA. Invited. Jan. 9.
	2024	“Logistics, Race, and Narrative.” Seminar on “The Rhetoric of Value,” convened by Seb Boersma, Jake Orbison, and Sam Samore. With Bret Benjamin, Beverly Best, Charlie Bond, Fintan Calpin, Benjamin Crais, Amy De’Ath, Delarys Ramos Estrada, Andrew Haas, Aditi Kumar, Blanca Missé, Jake Orbison, and Carson Welch. ACLA, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Invited. March 15–16.
	2024	“The Asian American Character of Logistics.” Panel on “Supply Chain Capitalism,” convened by Eli Jelly-Schapiro, with Peter Hitchcock (CUNY), Tierney Powell (UIC), Miriam Posner (UCLA), on behalf of the MLA forum on Marxism, Literature, and Society. MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA. Invited. Jan. 6.
	2023	Roundtable on “Archipelagic Pedagogies,” sponsored by the International Committee of the American Studies Association (ASA) and convened by Brian Russell Roberts. ASA, Montreal, Canada. Invited. Oct.
	2023	“New Criticism and the Translation of Mao.” Panel on “New Criticism in Practice” convened by Rachel Buurma and Laura Heffernan, with Joshua Gang, Yael Segalovitz, David Marno, and Andy Hines. MLA Convention, San Francisco, CA. Invited. Jan. 5.
	2022	“Marcos and Pinochet at the International Writing Program.” Panel on “Institutions of Authorship, 1965-2022” convened by Alexander Manshel, with Sarah Brouillette, Laura McGrath, and Aarthi Vadde. Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP/13). UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. Invited. Sep. 14-17.
	2022	“Chicago’s Asia: Racial Forms of Human Capital Theory.” Seminar on “Human Capital” convened by Ben Baer (Princeton University). American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Online. June 15-18.
	2022	“Knowledge Production/Knowledge Economy.” Roundtable on “Renewing Cold War Studies: The Enduring Importance of this Era for Asian American Studies” convened by Rosanne Sia and Heidi K. Kim, with Crystal Baik, Yumi Lee, Cindy I-Fen Cheng, Sunny Xiang, and Josephine Park. Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), Denver, CO. Invited. April 14–16.
	2021	“Philippines 1974: Labor Export as Semiperipheral Adjustment.” Panel on “Filipinx Racialization and Histories of Racial Capitalism” convened by Paul Nadal and Adrian De Leon, with Genevieve Clutario, Allan Lumba, and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez (Respondent). American Studies Association (ASA), Baltimore, MD (Online). Oct. 13.
	2021	“On Carlos Bulosan’s The Cry and the Dedication.” The Carlos Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies, UC Davis. May 28.
	2021	“Return Migration and the Transpacific Imagination of Filipino American Literature.” Verge Journal–sponsored panel on “Transpacific Socialisms” convened by Andrew Leong and Darwin Tsen. Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS). April 10.
	2021	“Reading Between Literature and Economy: Analogy as Mediation.” Seminar on “How Could We Read Now: The Sociology of Literature/The Value of Sociology” convened by Patrick Anson and Kelly Roberts. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Online. Invited. April 8–11.
	2020	“Philippines 1974: Labor Export as Semiperipheral Adjustment.” Panel on “Filipinx Racialization and Histories of Racial Capitalism” convened by Paul Nadal and Adrian De Leon, with Genevieve Clutario, Allan Lumba, and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez (Respondent). American Studies Association (ASA), Baltimore, MD. Nov. 12–15. (Accepted; cancelled due to Covid-19)
	2020	“The Dialectical Potency of Asian American Form.” Invited presenter for roundtable on Kandice Chuh’s The Difference Aesthetics Makes convened by Denise Cruz and Thuy Linh Tu, with Chandan Reddy, Laura Kang, and Kandice Chuh. Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), Washington D.C. April 11. (Invited; cancelled due to Covid-19)
	2020	“Return Migration and the Transpacific Imagination of Filipino American Literature.” Verge Journal–sponsored panel on “Transpacific Socialisms” convened by Andrew Leong and Darwin Tsen. Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), Washington D.C. April 10. (Accepted; cancelled due to Covid-19)
	2020	“The Literary After State Containment.” Invited presenter for roundtable on “Fictions of Belonging,” with Stephen Best, Michaela Bronstein, Sukanya Banerjee, and Melanie Micir. Convened by Jonathan Grossman on behalf of the MLA Genre Studies Prose Fiction Committee. MLA Convention, Seattle, WA. Jan. 10.
	2020	“Following the Money: How the Rockefeller Foundation Remade Philippine Literature.” Invited presenter for roundtable on “Writers from the Global South and Cold War Academic Cultures,” with Daniel Cooper, Isabel Gómez, Mai Wang, and Kalyan Nadiminti. Convened by Roanne Kantor and Isabel Gómez. MLA Convention, Seattle, WA. Jan. 9.
	2019	“Novels and Remittances.” Philippine Studies International Conference: Emerging Voices in Filipino and Philippine Studies, Center for Philippine Studies at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa, Honolulu, HI. Nov. 6.
	2019	“The Social Form of Remittances.” Panel on “Ecosophy and Aesthetics,” convened by Sangeeta Ray. Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP/11). University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Oct. 10–12.
	2019	“Homo Asianus Neoliberalis: Human Capital Theory and the Neoliberal Remaking of the Model Minority Myth.” Panel on “Global Asias,” convened by Joseph Jonghyun Jeon and Alden Sajor Marte-Wood. Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), Madison, WI. April 26.
	2019	“Human Capital Theory and Asian American Self-Help.” Panel on “Genre and Neoliberalism.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Georgetown University, Washington D.C. March 7–10.
	2019	“Decolonizing History at Iowa.” Panel on “Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia,” convened by CLCS Forum on Southeast Asian & Southeast Asian Diasporic. MLA Convention, Chicago, IL. Jan. 5.
	2018	“Asian/American/Marxism: A Roundtable.” Panel convened by Colleen Lye, with Iyko Day, Petrus Liu, and Calvin Cheung-Miaw. Marxist Literary Group (MLG), Institute of Culture and Society, University of Albany, Albany, NY. June 18–22.
	2017	“The Social Form of Remittances.” Invited presenter for Global American Studies Symposium, sponsored by the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Dec. 1.
	2016	“The Importation of New Criticism into the Philippines and the Search for the Great Filipino Novel, 1946–1962.” Symposium on “New Work in Novel Studies.” Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Dec. 7.
	2015	“Remittance Culture.” L'Association Française d'Etudes Américaines, Annual Convention, La Rochelle, France. May 26–30.
	2014	“Nation and Repatriation: Juan C. Laya’s His Native Soil.” Institute of Philippine Culture, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines. June 3.
	2014	“Transit, Injury, Infrastructure: A Theoretical Inquiry into Global Risk.” With Amanda Armstrong. UC Berkeley, Program of Critical Theory. Symposium on “Politics Beyond the Human.” March 13.
	2012	“On Awaiting Death: Heidegger and Derrida.” UC Berkeley, Dept. of French. Conference on “The Edges of Exposure.” April 27–28.
	2010	“Engaging and Envisioning an Activist Asian Pacific American Studies.” Conference on “Decolonizing the University: Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley,” Berkeley, CA. Feb. 26.
	2009	“Allegories of Overdevelopment: Philippine Postcoloniality Against the Time of Modernization.” MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA. Panel on “Criticism as Method.” Dec. 28.
	2009	“The Work of Time: Development, Comparison, and Postcolonial Critique.” Univ. of Texas, Austin, Dept. of Comparative Literature. Conference on “Postcolonial Actualities.” Oct. 16.
	2007	“Disco(rdant) Fantasies: Toward a Political Economy of Desire.” UC Riverside, Dept. of English. Conference on “(Dis)junctions.” April 6.
	2006	“National Narratives, Unnatural Bodies: Reading the Nation in Younghill Kang’s East Goes West.” USC, Dept. of Ethnic Studies. Conference on “Crossing Borders.” March 4.
INVITED TALKS, SYMPOSIUM PAPERS & RESPONSES
	2025	Post45 Faculty Symposium, convened by Samantha Pergadia and Arthur Wang, Southern Methodist University (SMU). Dec.12–13.
	2025	“On Asian American Literary Studies Now,” Transpacific and Asian American Studies Colloquium, Department of English, UC Berkeley, Dec. 8.
	2025	“Marxism and Asian American Studies,” a conference hosted by the Asian American Research Center (AARC) at UC Berkeley, Dec. 5–6.
	2025	“The Exhaustion of Asian American Literature.” Invited lecture. Latitudes—a working group on comparative studies of race, colonization, and empire at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of English. Nov. 19.
	2025	“States of the Filipino Novel: On Wilfrido D. Nolledo.” Lecture. The Literary and Cultural Studies Program at the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. Co-sponsored by Exploding Galaxies Press. April 23.
	2025	“Materialisms and Infrastructures of the Transpacific.” Transpacific Cluster Symposium, featuring Paul Nadal, Joanne Leow, Wesley Attewell, Eleana Kim. Dept. of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California (USC). Feb. 18.
	2024	“Literature, Remittances, and the Prehistory of Philippine Labor Export.” Americanist Colloquium, Dept. of English, Yale University. March 28.
	2023	Asian American Studies Director’s Summit. A two-day summit of directors and leaders of Asian American Studies programs in the Ivy League, convened by Professor David L. Eng. Asian American Studies Program (ASAM) at the University of Pennsylvania. Apr. 21–22.
	2023	“On Neferti Tadiar’s Remaindered Life.” Invited panelist, with Jasbir Puar and Erica Edwards, Barnard College. Columbia University. April 11.
	2023	“Futurities: Land, Surplus, Plot.” Invited lecture. Variations—a graduate student-led reading group focusing on Marxism at the University of Pennsylvania. March 31.
	2023	“Of Remittances.” Workshop, Institute for Critical Theory, Duke University, hosted by Nima Bassiri. March 3.
	2022	“Reading Remittances, Reading Literature.” Invited lecture. Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan), hosted by Caroline S. Hau. Nov. 29. (Postponed) https://kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/event/20221129/
	2022	“Reading Remittances, Reading Literature.” Invited lecture. The Civilization Studies Program in collaboration with the Center for Arts and Humanities at the American University of Beirut (Beirut, Lebanon), hosted by Nadia Bou Ali. Nov. 14.
	2022	“Racial Forms of Human Capital Theory.” Symposium on “The Cold War and U.S. Empire in Asia.” Convened by Yoon Sun Lee, with Jed Esty, Kelly Rich, Kent Puckett, Karl Britto, and Penny Fielding. The Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Wellesley College. Nov. 11.
	2022	“Reading Remittances, Reading Literature.” Invited lecture. Department of English, NYU, hosted by Elizabeth McHenry. Sep. 20.
	2022	“Carlos Bulosan, Socialist?” Socialist World Cultures Symposium, convened by Anna Björk Einarsdóttir and Hunter Bivens. The Humanities Institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz (THI) and the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). May 26–27.
	2022	In conversation with Yogita Goya, “The Global Afterlives of Slavery.” Red May. May 14.
	2022	“Human Capital Theory and the Neoliberal Remaking of the Model Minority Myth.” Symposium on “Archiving Cold War Asia,” convened by Chih-ming Wang and David Chang. Panel on “Humans as Archive: Theories about Capital,” with Sunny Xiang and Petrus Liu. Harvard Yenching Institute, Harvard University. April 30.
	2021	“Managing Genre Thresholds: Circuits and Circulation in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American.” Convened by John Plotz. Brandeis University Novel Symposium. Oct. 22.
	2021	“Racial Forms of Human Capital Theory.” The Economic History and History of Economic Thought Working Group, Young Scholars Initiative (YSI), sponsored by the Institute for New Economic Thinking. Apr. 17, 24.
	2020	“Neoliberalism’s Model Minority.” Invited presenter. Two-day symposium, entitled “2020: New Directions in Asian American Aesthetics,” Northwestern University, Chicago, IL. Apr. 18-19. (Invited; cancelled due to Covid-19)
	2020	“Racial Forms of Human Capital Theory.” The Economic History and History of Economic Thought Working Group, Young Scholars Initiative (YSI), sponsored by the Institute for New Economic Thinking. Humanities and Social Sciences Building, University of California, Santa Barbara. Apr. 17-18. (Accepted; cancelled due to Covid-19)
	2020	Invited faculty respondent, Conference on “Remittances and the Imagination of Connectedness,” sponsored by the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society (John Borneman) and Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (Barbara Buckinx). Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Feb. 29.
	2020	Invited faculty respondent, “The Novel of Social Reproduction” (Martin Aagard Jensen) and “Negation, Queer History, and Revolutionary Becoming in Communist East Asia” (Libby Kao), Post45 Graduate Symposium. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Feb. 28.
	2019	“Homo Asianus Neoliberalis: Human Capital Theory and Asian American Self-Help.” Invited presenter. Faculty Seminars in American Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY. Dec. 3.
	2019	“Between Literature and Economy: Analogy, Homology, Mediation.” Invited presenter. Symposium on “The Poetics of Material Life,” convened by Carolyn Biltoft and Monica Huerta, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Nov. 15-16.
	2019	“Remittance Fiction: Literary and Financial Returns of the Philippine Diaspora.” Public lecture, Ateneo de Manila University, sponsored by Kritika Kultura Journal. Quezon City, Philippines, Aug. 29.
	2019	“Philippine Literature in the World-Literary System: A Seminar.” Ateneo de Manila University, sponsored by Kritika Kultura Journal. Quezon City, Philippines, Aug. 29.
	2019	“Remittance Fiction: Literary and Financial Returns of the Philippine Diaspora.” Public lecture, University of the Philippines, sponsored by the Department of English and Comparative Literature. Quezon City, Philippines, Aug. 28.
	2019	“The Philippine Labor Diaspora: Then and Now.” Wellesley College. Public lecture, sponsored by Wellesley Club Filipina and the Departments of American Studies, Political Science, and History. Wellesley, MA, April 22.
	2019	“City of Encounters: Intimacy and the Metropolis.” Roundtable with Robert Diaz, Allan Punzalan Isaac, Ferdinand Lopez, and Denise Cruz. University of Toronto, Conference on “Beauty Brutality, and the Neocolonial City.” Toronto, Canada, March 22–23.
	2019	“Homo Asianus Neoliberalis: Human Capital Theory and Asian American Self-Help.” Princeton University. AMS Workshop. Princeton, NJ, Feb. 4.
	2017	“Reading Asian American Literature Transnationally.” Public lecture, Wellesley College, sponsored by Wellesley Asian Alliance, the largest Asian American student group on campus. Wellesley, MA, Oct. 25.
	2017	“Asian American Studies in an Era of Walls, Bans, and Protests.” Harvard University. Participant, Pacific New England. Cambridge, MA, Oct. 7.
	2017	“From Pensionados to Fulbrighters: Early Filipino Intellectual Migrations, 1903–1948.” Public lecture, Wellesley College, sponsored by Wellesley Club Filipina. Wellesley, MA, Oct. 19.
	2017	“Two Paths for the Filipino Novel After Import-Substitution.” Public lecture, UC Berkeley, sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities. Berkeley, CA, March 3.
	2017	“Race, Inequality, and Social Justice in the Classroom.” The New School. Moderator of workshop for First-Year Writing faculty. New York, NY, Feb. 10.
	2010	“Infrastructural Futures: The Philippine Neocolonial State in a Developmental Frame.” Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines. Invited lecture, sponsored by Kritika Kultura Journal. July 30.
	2010	“Infrastructural Futures: The Philippine Neocolonial State in a Developmental Frame.” University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines. Invited lecture, sponsored by the College of Mass Communication. July 7.
	2010	“Queer Marxisms.” UC Berkeley. Seminar leader, Interdisciplinary Marxist Working Group (IMWG). Berkeley, CA, Feb. 18.
LITERARY READINGS ORGANIZED
	2022	Reading and Q&A with Gina Apostol, author of Bibliolepsy (Soho, 2022). Co-organizer with Alden Sajor Marte-Wood (Rice University). CAALS Second Annual Virtual Conference. June 10.
	2020	Reading and Q&A with Jenny Xie and Karan Mahajan. Organizer and moderator, Princeton University, Oct. 29.
	2019	Reading and Q&A with Karan Mahajan, author of The Association of Small Bombs (Viking, 2016). Organizer and moderator, Princeton University, Dec. 11.
	2019	Reading and Q&A with Gina Apostol, author of Insurrecto (Soho, 2018). Organizer and moderator, Princeton University, April 4.
	2016	Reading and Q&A with Mia Alvar, author of In the Country (Knopf, 2015). Organizer and moderator, The New School, Nov. 28.
	2014	Reading and Q&A with Gina Apostol, author of Gun Dealers’ Daughter (Norton, 2012). Organizer and moderator, UC Berkeley, April 16.
PUBLIC HUMANITIES OUTREACH
	2025	“Filipino American Stories: ‘A Scent of Apples’ by Bienvenido N. Santos,” public lecture delivered at Princeton Public Library on the occasion of Filipino American History Month. Oct. 6.
	2022	“Introducing Isabel Sandoval’s Lingua Franca.” Invited expert for “Asian American Film Series,” curated by Anne A. Cheng. Deep Focus, Renew Theater. Princeton, NJ. April 26.
	2021	“The Social Life of Remittances: Migration, Finance, and the Crisis of Care Work,” lecture for Asian American Alumni Association of Princeton (A4P), with April Chou ’96. Apr. 27.
	2020	“The Novel and Technologies of Empire: Paul Nadal in Conversation with Gina Apostol.” The Margins, a journal by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW). Feb. 28. https://aaww.org/technologies-of-empire-gina-apostol/
	2019	“Introducing Lino Brocka’s Manila in the Claws of Light.” Invited expert for film festival, “On Resentment,” organized by Triple Canopy Magazine and Brooklyn Academic of Music (BAM). Brooklyn, NY, March 24.

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TEACHING

AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Ph.D. Seminars:

“Marxism and Form: How to Read Dialectically” (Fall 2025)

“Criticism and Theory: Racial Capitalism” (Fall 2023)

“Literary Form, Social Process: Marxist Aesthetic Theory” (Spring 2022)

Undergraduate Courses:

“Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day (Junior Research Seminar)”
ENG 300 (Fall 2026)

“Burnout: Contemporary Fictions of Work”
ENG 284 (Fall 2026)

“Asian American Literature and Culture”
ASA 224/ENG 224 (Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2024, Fall 2025)

“Introduction to Asian American Studies”
ASA 201 (Spring 2019, Fall 2021)

“Asian American Family”
ASA 347/AMS 347/ENG 426/GSS 358 (Fall 2018)

“Cringe and Other Surplus Feelings: Topics in Asian American Literature”
ASA 425/AMS 427 (Spring 2026)

“Model Minority Fictions”
ASA 324/AMS 324/ENG 244 (Fall 2020)

“Global Novel”
ENG 444/ASA444/AMS443 (Fall 2019, Spring 2022, Spring 2024)

“The Scale of the World: Maps, Labyrinths, Assemblages (Junior Research Seminar)”
ENG 300 (Fall 2020)

AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE

“Asian American Domesticities” (Spring 2018)

“The Asian American Experience” (Fall 2017)

AT THE NEW SCHOOL, EUGENE LANG COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS

“Marxism and Culture” (Spring 2017)

“Critical Theories of Finance” (Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017)

“Global Migration and Biopolitics” (Fall 2016)

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

“How Stories Work” (Summer 2014); “Novel/Nation” (Fall 2013); “Rhetoric of Fiction” (Spring 2013); “History and the Novel: Writing the Philippine Nation” (Fall 2012); “The Idea of Asia” (Spring 2012), co-taught with Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan.

OTHER TEACHING

“Globalization” (NYU Gallatin School of Individual Studies, Spring 2015);

“Introduction to Asian American Literature” (University of San Francisco, Fall 2012)

TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS

“Global Poverty” (Fall 2011) Ananya Roy, Dept. of City Planning, UC Berkeley; “Modern Rhetorical Theory” (Spring 2011) Pheng Cheah, Dept. of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley; “Classical Rhetorical Theory” (Fall 2010) James Harker, Dept. of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley; “Plato and the Sophists” (Fall 2009) Daniel Boyarin, Dept. of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley; “Introduction to Asian American History” (Spring 2007) Keith Camacho, Dept. of Asian American Studies, UCLA; “Asian American Identity” (Spring 2004, 2005) Connie So, Dept. of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington.

STUDENT ADVISING & MENTORING
PH.D. DISSERTATION SUPERVISION
Current (Dissertation Committee Member) Lauren Bunce, “Narrative Work: Social Reproduction, Management, and the Strategy of Refusal.” Dept. of English, Princeton University. (Committee: William Gleason, Russ Leo, Paul Nadal) Paola Del Toro, “American Monotone: Voice, Style, and Comedy in the Long Economic Downturn (1970-Present).” Dept. of English, Princeton University. (Committee: Anne Cheng, William Gleason, Paul Nadal) *Current (Prospectus Stage)* Angela Cai (Asian American) Khadeeja Farooqui (Postcolonial/Global Anglophone) Lillian Quijano Johnson (19^th-20^thc. U.S.) Urvi Kumbhat (Postcolonial/Global Anglophone) Fay Lin (Asian American) Luna Eaton Sharon—School of Architecture, PhD candidate (Marxism and Feminism) Past (Dissertation Committee Member) Rebecca N. Liu, “Contract Spirit: Race, Labor, and Social Reproduction after the Coolie Trade.” Dept. of English, Princeton University. (Committee: Anne Cheng, Zahid Chaudhary, Russ Leo, Paul Nadal). Completed: June 2023. Placement: Assistant Professor of English, Brown University (2024–present); Assistant Professor of English, University of Maryland (2023–24) Christopher Canete Rodriguez Kelly, “From Bundok to the Boondocks: Competing Realisms in the Philippine Vernacular and Anglophone Novel.” Dept. of English, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Completed: May 2023. Placement: Assistant Professor of English, Swarthmore College (2026-present); Postdoctoral Fellowship Society of Fellows, Columbia University (2024–2026).
GRADUATE STUDENT MENTORING AT PRINCETON
Sofia Tong, M.A. in English (2025); Qualifying committee/general exams: “19th Century Anglo-Chinese Encounter.” Paola Del Toro, Ph.D. candidate in English (2023-present); Qualifying committee/general exams: “Theories of Racial Capitalism.” Lauren Bunce, Ph.D. candidate in English (2023-present); Qualifying committee/general exams: “Theories of Gender and Sexuality.” Kierra Duncan, Ph.D. candidate in English (2021-23); Qualifying committee/general exams: “ “Philosophies of History: Empire, Culture, and Modernity.”
Becca N. Liu, Ph.D. candidate in English (2018-23); Qualifying committee/general exams: “Race, Labor, Settler Colonialism.” Jiya S. Pandya, Ph.D. candidate in History (2019-20); Qualifying committee/general exams: “Theories of the Body” (w/ Prof. Aisha Beliso-De Jesús)
MENTORSHIP PROGRAMS AT PRINCETON
	2023-24	Faculty Adviser, Theory Colloquium (Dept. of English)
	2024-25	Faculty Adviser, Rockefeller College
	2019–24	Faculty Adviser, Whitman College
	2019–20, 2018–19	Faculty Fellow, Scholars Institute Fellows Program (SIFP), Office of the Dean of the College
	2019–20, 2018–19	Faculty Mentor, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program
STUDENT THESES SUPERVISED AT PRINCETON
Current: Annie Eun Jung Kim ’26, English, “Helping Shakespeare: Shamanic Ritual and Horizontal Reconciliation in Oh Tae-suk’s The Tempest”—Senior Thesis Advisor; Cristina Shu ’26, English—Senior Thesis Advisor; Marlie Kass ’27, English—Junior Paper; Jack Goodman ’27 , English—Junior Paper

Past: Catherine Xie ‘26—Junior Paper (2024–25); Savannah Woellert ‘25 (Senior Thesis, Second Reader); Ella Barry ‘25 (Senior Thesis, Second Reader); Rebecca Cao ’24— Senior Thesis Advisor; Elliott Hyon ’24— Senior Thesis Advisor, English; Samantha T. Liu ’22, English—Senior Thesis Advisor; Sandra Yang ’22, English—Senior Thesis Advisor; Soyeong Park ’20, Asian American Studies—Academic Advisor; Silma Berrada ’22, English—Junior Paper (2020-21); Alia M. Wood ’20, English—Senior Thesis Advisor; Linda Song ’20, Anthropology—Independent Study (Mellon Mays Faculty Mentor, 2019–20); Kai Liu ’19, East Asian Studies—Senior Thesis (Co-Adviser with Franz Prichard, 2018-19); Rebecca Ngu ’20, English—Junior Paper (2018-19); GJ Sevillano ’19, Politics—Independent Study (Mellon Mays Faculty Mentor, 2018-19); Cameron “Cammie” Lee ’22, English—Junior Paper (2020-21).

Research Assistants: Daniel Yu ’27; Rebecca Cao ’24; Rebecca Ngu ’20

SERVICE
ACADEMIC & COMMITTEE SERVICE AT PRINCETON
	2023-26	Executive Committee Member, Program in Media and Modernity. Directors: Beatriz Colomina and Devin Fore
	2019–26	Executive Committee Member, Effron Center for the Study of America. Director: Aisha Beliso-De Jesús (2020-present); Director: Anne A. Cheng (2019-20)
	2025-26, 23-24, 21-22, 20-21	Executive Committee Member, Dept. of English. Chair: Simon E. Gikandi
	2025-26	Graduate Admissions II, Dept. of English. Chair: Robert Spoo.
	2025-26	Committee on Campus Recreation (CCR). Chair: Dianna Clauss.
	2024-25	Curriculum Committee (CDS), Department of English. Chair: Russ Leo.
	2024	EFF Student Award/Prizes Committee (Spring Cycle 2024), Effron Center for the Study of America. Spring.
	2023	EFF Student Award/Prizes Committee (Winter Cycle 2023), Effron Center for the Study of America. Fall.
	2023-24	Search Committee Member for Assistant Professor of Creative Writing (Fiction), Lewis Center for the Arts. Chair: Yiyun Li. Committee: Paul Nadal, A. M. Holmes, Ilya Kaminsky. (Outcome: Jamil Kochai)
	2021-24	Committee on Examinations and Standing, Office of the Dean of the Faculty (July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2024)
	2023-24	Graduate Admissions II, Dept. of English. Chair: Joshua Kotin.
	2022-23	Graduate Admissions II, Dept. of English. Chair: Joshua Kotin.
	2019-20	Search Committee Member for Professor or Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, Program in American Studies. Chair: Beth Lew-Williams.
	2019-20	Curriculum Committee (CDS), Department of English. Chair: Tamsen Wolff.
	2019	AMS Senior Thesis Prize Selection Committee, Program in American Studies. Chair: Rachael Z. DeLue. Spring.
	2019	Selection Committee, Summer Support for Graduate Research in American Studies (AY2019-2020), Program in American Studies. Chair: Anne A. Cheng. Spring.
LECTURES, PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS, AND OTHER SERVICES AT PRINCETON
	2026	Speaker. Lunar New Year Luncheon. A4P–Asian American Alumni Association of Princeton. March 21.
	2026	Faculty respondent. Dissertation Colloquium: Angela H. Brown (Art and Archaeology), Guillermo S. Arsuaga (Architecture), Paola Del Toro (English), Florian Endres (Comparative Literature). Program in Media and Modernity. March 17.
	2023	Panelist. 250th Anniversary Fund Lunch. McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning. Dec. 8.
	2023	Guest reviewer for M.A. architectural projects, School of Architecture. Nov. 19, Dec. 6, 9.
	2023	Faculty respondent, Seb Franklin’s “Value and Slavery, or the Longue Durée of the Analog-Digital Distinction.” Lecture Series, Program in Media and Modernity. Oct. 24.
	2023	Faculty respondent, Neferti X. M. Tadiar’s “Nightmare Landscapes, Ambient Splendor, and the End(s) of Art.” Lecture Series, Program in Media and Modernity. March 28.
	2022	Faculty respondent, Grega Ulen’s “Reading against the Nation: Peripheral Realism and Aesthetic Knowledge in Third-Worldist Perspective.” Works in Progress Colloquium, Department of Comparative Literature. March 24.
	2022	“Honoring bell hooks: Reflections on Her Pedagogical Legacy,” with Professors Brian Herrera, Monica Huerta, and Autumn Womack. Panel convened by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning. Feb 24.
	2021	“The State of Asian American Studies at Princeton University,” with Professors Beth Lew-Williams and Anne A. Cheng. Panel, convened by A4P: Asian American Alumni Association of Princeton. Nov. 10.
	2021	“300 Years in a Convent, 50 in Hollywood,” an exhibition and gallery talk of Philippine and Filipinx Diaspora Art with NExSE Art Collective and Patrick Flores (University of the Philippines). Sponsored by the Princeton Program in American Studies and the Lewis Center for the Arts. Oct. 6.
	2021	“History of Anti-Asian Racism, Asian American Activism, and Cross-Cultural Understanding,” with Professors Beth Lew-Williams and Kinohi Nishikawa, sponsored by the Carl A. Fields Center and the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Heritage Month Committee. Apr. 19.
	2021	“On Realism and Peripheral Realism,” Victorian Colloquium, Dept. of English. Apr. 15.
	2021	Introduction of Anne A. Cheng and Isaac Chung (director of “Minari”), Department of English. Apr. 5.
	2021	In conversation with Phil Chan and Anne A. Cheng, “Final Bow for Yellowface: Dancing between Intention and Impact,” Lewis Center for the Arts. March 25.
	2021	In conversation with Charles Yu, Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students. Feb. 11.
	2019	Introduction of Jia Tolentino and Yiyun Li, Asian American Studies Lecture Series, Dec. 4.
	2019	Introduction of Jessica Hagedorn and Elaine Castillo, Asian American Studies Lecture Series, Oct. 2.
	2019	“Migration: Stories of Return.” Two sessions of a 60-minute humanities precept for invited high-school seniors to the Princeton campus. Creative Arts & Humanities Symposium , Office of the Dean of the College, Oct. 19.
	2019	Introduction of Colleen Lye, Asian American Studies Lecture Series, May 2.
	2019	“The Asian American Movement: 1968.” Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Dinner Talk Series, Carl A. Fields Center. April 18.
	2019	Introduction of Janelle Wong, Asian American Studies Lecture Series, March 28.
	2019	“Cowboy Versus Samurai: A Play by Michael Golamco.” Invited moderator for talkback. Theatre Intime, Program in Theater, March 2.
	2019	Manuscript Reviewer and Consultant, “History of Asians and Asian Americans at Princeton,” (In)Visible Princeton Walking Tour Series, Office of the Executive Vice President. Feb.
	2018	Introduction of David Roh, Asian American Studies Lecture Series, Oct. 11.

SERVICE — OTHER INSTITUTIONS
	2017	Jamey Jesperson ’17. The New School, Thesis: “LGBT+ Rights in Malta.”
	2013	Moderator, Panel on “Critical Perspectives in Literature” (Elena Ayala-Hurtado, Cynthia Garcia, Michael Reyes, Carrie Moore), Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program (MMUF) West Coast Regional Undergraduate Conference, Nov. 1-2, UC Berkeley.
	2007–08	Research Assistant to Prof. Janice Radway, Graduate Program in Literature, Duke University.
	2007	Research Assistant to Prof. Jinqi Ling, Dept. of English, UCLA.
	2006–07	Graduate Admissions Committee, Dept. of Asian American Studies, UCLA.
	2006	Research Assistant to Prof. King-Kok Cheung, Dept. of English, UCLA.
	2003–04	Assistant Editor, Curriculum Transformation Project, University of Washington.

SERVICE — TO THE FIELD
	2024-25	Steering Committee, Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on “Transpacific Thought and the Problem of Asia,” directed by Kandice Chuh and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, with Denise Cruz, Allan Isaac, Martin Manalansan, Karen Shimakawa, and Van Tran.
	2023–24	Juror Member, Book Awards Committee (Prose Fiction), Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS).
	2023–26	MLA Delegate Assembly Member (Elected Member, three-year term). Forum, TM Literary Criticism. Nominated by Stephen Best, Anahid Nersessian, Leah Allen, and Anna Kornbluth. Modern Language Association (MLA). Dec. 2022.
	2020–23	MLA Delegate Assembly Member (Elected Member, three-year term). CLCS Forum on Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic, Modern Language Association (MLA). Dec. 2019.

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

	2025-	Editorial Board Member, Critical Times—a peer-reviewed journal committed to the intellectual and political project of critical theory, founded by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and published by Duke University Press.
	2024–25	Co-editor, special issue “The Asian Century: Idea, Method, and Media,” Verge: Studies in Global Asia
	2010–12	Editorial Board Member, Reclamations Journal

MANUSCRIPT REFEREE (PEER-REVIEW)

American Quarterly (2021)

Arizona Quarterly (American Literature, Culture, & Theory) (2025)

Contemporary Literature (2022)

Journal of Asian American Studies (2020)

Kritika Kultura (Philippine Studies) (2021)

MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (2025)

Neohelicon (Comparative and World Literature) (2025)

Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature (2025)

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints (2024) (2026)

Post45: Peer-Review (2018)

Postmodern Culture (2022)

PMLA (2023)

Social Text (2026)

Textual Practice (2025)

The Wenshan Review (Inter-Asia Cultural Studies) (2020)

PRESS APPEARANCES AND CITATIONS
	2021	Featured in Le Monde, interview with Clémentine Goldszal on Asian American Literature. “D’Ocean Vuong à Celeste Ng en passant par Charles Yu, l’émergence des écrivains asiatiques-américains,” February 12. https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2021/02/05/d-ocean-vuong-a-celeste-ng-en-passant-par-charles-yu-l-emergence-des-ecrivains-asiatiques-americains_6068938_4500055.html
	2019	Quoted in Jamie Saxon, “Alumna and journalist Maria Ressa on freedom of the press and combating disinformation,” Princeton University News, April 10. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/04/10/alumna-and-journalist-maria-ressa-freedom-press-and-combating-disinformation/
	2019	Featured in Sarah Malone, “Students in ‘Asian American Family’ course connect race, kinship to create zine,” Princeton University News, Jan. 22. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/01/22/students-asian-american-family-course-connect-race-kinship-create-zine/
	2019	“‘The Asian American Family’ Makes a Zine.” News feature about teaching. Jan. 10. https://ams.princeton.edu/news/asian-american-family-makes-zine/
	2014	“What Is Rhetoric?” Interview for The Berkeley Graduate. Feb. issue.
	2011	“Budget Protests at California Universities.” KQED Public Radio. Aired on Nov. 15. https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2011/11/15/budget-protests-at-california-universities/

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
	American Literature Society (ALS), member since 2018
	American Studies Association (ASA), member since 2017
	Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW)
	Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), member since 2017
	Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP), member since 2018
	Marxist Literary Group (MLG), member since 2018
	Modern Language Association (MLA), member since 2009
	Narrative Society, member since 2017
	Society for Novel Studies (SNS), member since 2018

REFERENCES

Available upon request

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