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Nerissa S. Balce is an associate professor in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her essays have appeared in Social Text, Peace Review and in anthologies on Asian American literature and Filipino American studies. Her book, Body Parts of Empire: Abjection, Filipino Images and the American Archive (University of Michigan Press) is forthcoming.

Donald Goellnicht is Professor of English and Cultural Studies, and Director of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, at McMaster University in Canada. He teaches and publishes on Asian North American and African American literature and culture.

Sara Veronica Hinojos is a PhD candidate in the department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) with an emphasis in Black Studies. Her research interests include Chicana/o and Latina/o Media, Language Politics, Popular Culture, and Humor.

Laureen Hom is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Planning, Policy & Design at UC Irvine. Ms. Hom’s research examines placemaking and neighborhood change in ethnic communities through the lens of urban studies and cultural planning.

Allan Punzalan Isaac is Associate Professor of American Studies and English and Chair of American Studies at Rutgers University. He is the author of American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America (2006) which received the AAAS Cultural Studies Book Award. He has taught at LaSalle University, Manila as a Senior Fulbright Scholar. [End Page 139]

Theresa A. Kulbaga is associate professor of English and affiliate in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Miami University of Ohio. Her essays on contemporary American women’s autobiography, transnational feminism, and human rights have appeared in JAC, College English, Western Subjects, and Prose Studies, among others. She is currently completing a book manuscript on women’s autobiography and transnational feminism.

Martin F. Manalansan IV is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies and a Conrad Professorial Humanities Scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2003; Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2006) which was awarded the Ruth Benedict Prize in 2003. He is editor/co-editor of three anthologies namely, Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America (Temple University Press, 2000) and Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism (New York University Press, 2002), Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader (New York University Press, 2013) as well as a special issue of International Migration Review on gender and migration

Richard W. Morrison is Editorial Director at Fordham University Press. Previously, he served as Editorial Director and Humanities Editor at the University of Minnesota Press. He began his scholarly publishing career at Duke University Press in 1993.

David Palumbo-Liu is the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor and Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford. His most recent books are The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age and a co-edited volume, Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture. His blogs for Truthout, The Nation, Salon,The Los Angeles Review of Books and others. See www.palumbo-liu.com. Twitter:@palumboliu

Junaid Rana is associate professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with appointments in the Department of Anthropology, the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. With Diane Fujino, he has recently written about academic boycott in the journal American Quarterly. He is the author of the book Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora (Duke, 2011), winner of the 2013 Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in the Social Sciences. [End Page 140]

Jeffrey Santa Ana is Associate Professor at Stony Brook University, the State University of New York. He is the author of Racial Feelings: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion (Temple University Press, 2015). His work has also appeared in Signs, positions, and various book collections on Asian American literary and cultural criticism.

Rajini Srikanth is Professor of English and Affiliated Faculty in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her books include Constructing the Enemy: Empathy...

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