Paul Nadal’s research focuses on developing historicist and formalist approaches to literature, with specializations in the Asian American and Philippine Anglophone novel. He is working on two manuscript projects. The first is a study of Philippine literature in English in relation to the political economy of labor export and migrant remittances.

Kinohi Nishikawa specializes in twentieth-century African American literature, book history, and popular culture. He earned his A.B. in English from Dartmouth College and his Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University. At Princeton Nishikawa teaches courses on African American humor, African American literary history, and Afro-Asian studies.

Anne Anlin Cheng is Professor of English, and affiliated faculty in the Program in American Studies, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Committee on Film Studies.