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Assistant Professor of English @Princeton . Writing a book, Remittances, Literary & Economic. Next: The Asian American Character of Logistics. Always w/ my dog.

Princeton, NJ

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Paul Nadal

9 months

New article 🚨 On how a keyword of our times—HUMAN CAPITAL—was not colorblind (despite what neoliberals say) but a highly racialized economic hypothesis on education that valorizes Asian models by exorcising the specter of Black enslavement. DM me for PDF!

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This fall at Princeton, teaching a graduate seminar on RACIAL CAPITALISM. PDF of syllabus: 👉🏾

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An important lesson in Asian American Studies is that "Asian American" was a social movement before it was ever an identity. Which means that the term, as a mode of identification, then and now, ascriptive or otherwise, makes sense only with reference to its political content.

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59 million voters stood by a nominee actively and publicly endorsed by the KKK and other hate groups. These voters had a choice. @TheFix

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2 years

Found this year's holiday Xmas card

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turning 40 in this shirt 💅🏻

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Thanks to UC Press, my article "HOW NEOLIBERALISM REMADE THE MODEL MINORITY MYTH" — on the connections bw human capital theory, Asian racialization, and Cold War geopolitics — is free and open access to all.

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novels since 2000 about work, its degradation, automation, dispersion, and ways of refusing it ?

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9 months

new Anne Carson 💓 : "L is for love, lasciviousness, and Lesbia."

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2 years

hot off the press: new directions in marxist literary criticism in present era of "expanded production, declining profitability" -- essential essays from @iykoday @anniemcclanahan @marxforcats @brouillettese 🔥

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base and superstructure redux

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getting ready for another semester of teaching being mistaken as a student

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3 years

My essay out now from AQ about prosaic but encompassing dimension of postcolonial literary production of the first 3/4s of the 20th c: the $$$$$ remitted from the US State Dept and philanthropic institutions such as Ford & Rockefeller Foundations.

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@comradesanchez If that is so, then "gayness" has proven itself again to being socialized into internalizing violent and self-destructive misogynistic norms.

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slouchy fall

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🆘🆘🆘🆘 w/ SZA ✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾

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from the archives: PhD exam in "Practical Criticism" at Iowa in 1950

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2 years

Honored to receive this recognition from the American Literature Society. A centerpiece of the larger book project, "Cold War Remittance Economy" appears in special issue on translation from AQ @AmerStudiesAssn ,& am grateful to @vrafael82 & Mary L Pratt for their editorial vision

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9 months

Congratulations to Becca N. Liu, who will join U. Maryland's English dept as an Assistant Professor of Asian Am Literature. Proud to have supervised her outstanding dissertation on race and social reproduction w/ Anne Cheng, Zahid Chaudhary, and Russ Leo. @PUEnglish @UMDEnglish

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Sza took time to connect with everyone. Look at her with our students. 💘💘💘 @PrincetonEFF @Princeton

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7 months

night session on the Grundrisse

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last night at Barnard-- celebrating Neferti Tadiar's REMAINDERED LIFE w/ Erica Edwards and Jasbir Puar @DukePress

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sza is everything

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This monumental book can't come soon enough. On "Remaindered Life" —i.e., "practices of living that exceed the distinction between life worth living and life worth expending." @DukePress

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Tonight at Yale

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"HOW NEOLIBERALISM REMADE THE MODEL MINORITY MYTH"—on the racial underpinnings of Chicago School human capital theory—is now freely available this month from UC Press ➡️

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2 years

Syllabus for my spring graduate seminar, "Literary Form, Social Process," on the problem of mediation in Marxist theory and criticism

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1 year

Someone pinch me. "Nightmare landscapes, Ambient Splendor, and the End(s) of Art," a talk by the brilliant and prophetic Neferti X. M. Tadiar.

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3 years

Page proofs! essay out next month from American Quarterly (September 73.3)

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today was perfect

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10 months

Jameson’s figures of speech in order of appearance: litotes; apophasia; tautology; hypotaxis; alliteration; analogy; anaphora; assonance; metaphor; hyperbole; paradox; dirimens copulatio; contradiction; synecdoche; sibilance; parallelism; enthymeme; chiasmus; ekphrasis;…

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2 years

A panel on bell hooks, Feb 24, w/ @drmonicahuerta , @amariewomack , and @stinkylulu . RSVP:

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Waiting for spring in Spring Semester

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Sunny Xiang—in her new essay in Radical History Review on the uncanny but direct connections between fashion bikinis and US Nuclearism in the Pacific—shows how "American atomic power has broadened the scope of what we typically understand as militarism." 🔥

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Princeton's Dept of English—our Fall '23 graduate seminar lineup—is where it's at 🔥 "Blackness & Empire" (Nishikawa) "Shakespeare's Language" (Dolven) "Racial Capitalism" (Nadal) "Ballad, Sonnet, Lyric, Line" (Martin) "Environmental Justice" (Nixon) "Anti-Fascism" (Cole)

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How to read Carlos Bulosan's AMERICA IS IN THE HEART in relation to his unfinished and less-well known novel THE CRY & THE DEDICATION? I offer some ways in “Carlos Bulosan, Socialist?” (Verge). PDF:

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The latest issue from REPRESENTATIONS is now freely available from UC Press. On "Proxy Wars" edited by Yoon Sun Lee and Kent Puckett. ➡️➡️

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3 years

One take-away I wanted to make: Rockefeller Foundation’s foreign direct investment in Philippine Anglophone literature all but guaranteed the persistence of English proficiency as a measure of the Philippines’ so-called export-ready human capital.

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2 years

Goji after eating the New Yorker

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As an audience member, what do you expect from a 12-minute academic panel talk? What is one thing you wish presenters did more often?

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3 years

October is Filipino/F/Pilipinx American History Month! (go read @GinaApostol for the stunning and by turns moving and funny novel about afterlives of the Philippine-American War -- that and to see what the NOVEL as form can do NOW)

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Christopher T. Fan's ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965 is a gift to the field. Bold,ambitious,&brilliantly argued,it offers a periodizing account of the "Asian American author as a class formation,"establishing AsianAm lit's indispensability to theories of the global contemporary

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“The novel form is in essence a question mark.” —Sylvia Winter

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Jim Porter's trenchant and persuasive critique of the limits of Foucauldian critique, in the latest Representation

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in my adorno era @AdamAllGrim

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coming out very soon from REPRESENTATIONS, on the archives of Chicago School economics, human capital theory, and the remaking of the model minority myth

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2 years

ok passport lady came thru

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7 months

See y'all at #MLA Philly —— Marxism, Literature, & Society panel on "SUPPLY CHAIN CAPITALISM" w/ @miriamkp , @TierneySPowell , Peter Hitchcock, convened by @ejellyschapiro

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3 years

Dogs, loyal (and very sleepy) companions

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9 months

⏰pomodoro-sanctioned break

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1 year

on my way down an etymology rabbit hole need anything?

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2 years

Goji wakes up from his 93rd nap of the day

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3 years

essays on geometric forms vz narrative, plot, etc??? lines, circles, triangles (in love with Sedgwick’s triangles, for example)

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coming soon-- short essay on Carlos Bulosan's Asian socialism and why we should read THE CRY AND THE DEDICATION as a sequel to AMERICA IS IN THE HEART.

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goji said move over i'll take it from here

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YOU get an A, and YOU get an A .... YOU ALL GET A's!!!!

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Get a pet who insists on being attached to the hip

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9 months

Kelly M. Rich's essay, on transnational Korean adoption, in "Proxy Wars" special issue of REPRESENTATIONS is moving, powerful, necessary.

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Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa (1819)

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1 year

someone heard me open a bag of chips

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it follows

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hi, Philly -- tomorrow at Penn

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9 months

🥹 emoji came to life

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JINI KIM WATSON and I are convening a panel on decolonization, cold war, and neoliberalism for MLA '25 in New Orleans. CFP :

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2 years

undated, uncaptioned photograph of José García Villa (second to left), in New York City. a dapper group of Filipino literary expats. The one wearing horn glasses I believe is Franz Arcellana. Anyone recognize others?

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spring on campus

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On Carlos Bulosan and what gets revealed when we approach his well-documented participation in socialist revolutionary struggles in the Philippines not only as biographical detail but as a formal principle of his literary practice.

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@aadeleon I'd read that book, "Delicious Anarchy"

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ASA 2021 @AmerStudiesAssn #2021ASA : "FILIPINX RACIALIZATION AND THE HISTORIES OF RACIAL CAPITALISM." Join me, @uglyhistories , @aadeleon , Genevieve Clutario, and Robyn Rodriguez . Wed Oct 14, 10-11:45am . Read the abstracts here:

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hey folks, resources out there on writing course lectures (undergrad)? obv very difft from writing conf papers and journal articles. // those among you who are experienced in the craft, what are your best principles for making the most out of 50 minutes with your students?

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berkeley scenes, a gathering and celebration

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Neferti Tadiar's REMAINDERED LIFE has won ASA's John Hope Franklin Prize for the best book in American Studies published during 2022. A powerful, beautiful, urgent book.

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Brandeis Novel Symposium done (via Zoom), & just blown away by brilliance of all the papers and humbled by what we do as lit crits, and also in awe of John Plotz and Yoon Sun Lee for their work in fostering scholarly community & cultivating open space 4 humor & experimentation🌹

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hi fall, l8r summer (winter, you stay)

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2 years

Mondays are for fiery, fiercely irreverent openers

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9 months

A key primary source I discuss in "How Neoliberalism Remade the Model Minority Myth" is Theodore W. Schultz's "Human Wealth and Economic Growth" (1959), which became the basis for his 1961 presidential address at the American Association of Economics »PDF:

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9 months

New article 🚨 On how a keyword of our times—HUMAN CAPITAL—was not colorblind (despite what neoliberals say) but a highly racialized economic hypothesis on education that valorizes Asian models by exorcising the specter of Black enslavement. DM me for PDF!

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This semester I had my students produce a zine—original creative work that reimagines kinship—and it is beautiful. Here's a glimpse into some of the work. @rebngu #AsianAmericanStudies #AmericanStudies @Princeton

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Students in ‘Asian American Family’ course connect race, kinship to create zine

To Paul Nadal, a postdoctoral research associate in the Program in American Studies who taught the fall 2018 course “The Asian American Family,” the connection between race and kinship that the class...

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AMS's @paulnadal_ , teaching ASA 347, “The Asian American Family,” led his students in finding story forms for reimagining Asian American kinship:

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2 years

just filing under Titles

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5 months

Congratulations to @Carlos_A_Nugent , @alexrmoskowitz , @TravisMFoster , whose articles are among those recognized by the American Literature Society for the Best Essay Prize. (Happy to see MELUS represented twice!)

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really wanna know who took this picture of me k thx

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merry xmas from an airport

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id tell my grad student self to read more Banaji

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I should really read Foucault

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2 years

made it to Denver for @AAAStudies and in time for our Thursday afternoon panel, 2:45pm-4:15pm, on Cold War Studies today. #AAAS2022

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1 year

acla 2023🌸

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Three and only three crit theory texts you encountered as an undergraduate that changed you forever? (In my case the early aughts, public R1.) Mine: Butler, Gender Trouble; Said, Orientalism; Foucault, Discipline and Punish . . . (Foucauldianism was very apparently in the air)

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@dan_sinykin 's BIG FICTION is literary history at its best, has connected all the dots of contemporary literature and discovered even more for all us to take up -- Dan, "dialectical fractals," was the concept-metaphor we needed!!

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2 years

bell hooks-- i remember how struck i was, at 19, by her insistence on the lower case, bending language, and upending the grammars i had learned to understand the world. her words changed me.

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#EthnicStudies #AsianAmStudies #FilAmStudies "Carlos Bulosan, Socialist?" essay now out from Verge: Studies in Global Asias, part of dossier on "Left Internationalisms in Nationalist Times" compiled by Andrew Way Leong and Darwin H. Tsen. [PDF]

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coming soon-- short essay on Carlos Bulosan's Asian socialism and why we should read THE CRY AND THE DEDICATION as a sequel to AMERICA IS IN THE HEART.

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WHAT IS THE ASIAN CENTURY? ARE WE LIVING IN IT?— teaming up with Chris Fan ( @sea_fan ) & Ragini Srinivasan ( @raginits ) on this @VergeGA special issue. We're looking for a wide range of approaches, media, geographies & archives. Essays due May 2024. Reach out to one of us directly!

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CFP: "SOCIALLY NECESSARY LABOR TIME AND THE FUTURE OF REALISM" @aldensajormw and I are co-organizing an #ACLA panel. Read the seminar description here: // #socialreproduction #marxism #noveltheory

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2 years

Just another day of Anne Carson perfecting the essay form @CriticalInquiry

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My first ever college course, in 2001, was in #AsianAmericanStudies , a truly formative experience for me. The field has evolved in incredible ways since, and I tried to reflect that in my own Intro to Asian American Studies #syllabus at @PrincetonAMS .

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3 years

Love this photo of Said for the way it captures his sartorial pizzazz and mimes and replicates elegant S-shapes. But also for the standing desk solution I've been looking for. What is that? A drafting table?

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Goji asking why am I so obsessed with him

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2 years

revisited two essays that invigorated my sense of criticism. Nealon's "Reading on the Left" and Crolyn Lesjak's "Reading Dialectically", both recapitulate an impt point (easily uttered but difficult to act upon): to read lit as part of hist of struggles to be free

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dear NYC,

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Remaindered Life A conversation between author Neferti Tadiar, Erica Edwards, Paul Nadal, and Jasbir Puar On Tuesday, April 11, 6:30 p.m. In person at @BarnardCollege Free + open to all Presented by WGSS, co-sponsored by BCRW

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