Neferti Tadiar

Neferti Tadiar is Professor of Women’s Studies at Barnard College and Director of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference. Her academic interests include transnational and third world feminisms; postcolonial theory; critical theories of race and subjectivity; literary and social theory; cultural studies of the Asia Pacific region; and Philippine studies. She is currently working on a book project entitled Discourse on Empire: Living Under the Rule of Permanent War and beginning a new research project entitled Schooling National Subjects: Experience and Education in US Colonial Philippines. Recent publications include Things Fall Away: Philippine Literatures, Historical Experience and Tangential Makings of Globality (Duke University, forthcoming); Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation, co-edited with Angela Y. Davis (Palgrave Press, 2005); and Fantasy-Production: Sexual Economies and Other Philippine Consequences for the New World Order (Hong Kong University Press/Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2004), Winner of the Philippine National Book Award (2005).