Americanist Colloquium

Death and Dying in Diaspora
Date
Nov 8, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

Speaker

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Allan Punzalan Isaac

Allan Punzalan Isaac specializes in Asian American, comparative ethnic and postcolonial aspects of contemporary American literary and cultural studies. His first book American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America (University of Minnesota Press, 2006) is the recipient of the Association for Asian American Studies Cultural Studies Book Award. In 2003-04, he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at DeLaSalle University-Taft in Manila, Philippines. He received his B.A .from Williams College and his Ph.D. in comparative literature from NYU. He teaches a broad range of courses in theory and literature, Asian American studies, critical race theory, law and literature, and comparative race studies. His most recent book is Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor (Fordham UP, 2022)

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Department of English
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