Hiram Perez

Hiram Perez is a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University’s Center for African American Studies. He looks forward to joining the English Department at Vassar College in the Fall of 2009. His writing has appeared in the journals Camera Obscura, Social Text, Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, and Cineaste, as well as in the collections Reading Brokeback Mountain: Essays on the Story and the Film and East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture. At present, he is completing a book on gay cosmopolitanism that traces the instrumentalization of homosexual desire within erotic economies of capitalism and the nation. He has also conducted seminars and workshops on “Teaching Literature of Immigration” for the New Jersey Council for the Humanities and for the Save Ellis Island Foundation.