In Defense of Digital Tools (by a Non-Tool)

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Like many of my friends and colleagues, I found the recent broad critique of the Digital Humanities  in LARB by Daniel Allington, David Gol...

Spring Teaching: Immigrants and Refugees

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(I wrote this up for an informal talk at Christ Church Neighborhood House in Philadelphia. I ended up not using much of the actual text of ...

Gender and the State: A Beginner's Guide to the Personal Law Debate in India

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Next week, Lehigh hosts an exciting conference called "Feminisms Beyond the Secular," with a number of prominent feminist academ...

"The Classroom is a Public"

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The following is a shortened / excerpted version of a keynote address I gave at the Literature and Social Justice (LSJ) graduate conferenc...

The Evolution of the “Natural Born Citizen” Idea: An Explainer For Students

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[ I am teaching a course on "Immigration and Literature" for first year-students this spring. Today we talked about the controver...

The Problem With H.R. 158

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BBC Journalist Rana Rahimpour, a British and Iranian dual citizen, after being denied entry to the U.S. earlier this week. Even as t...

Claude McKay's Uncollected Political Poetry, 1918-1922

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( Cross-posted at Harlem Echoes  ; also see my earlier blog post explaining this collaborative project. This page accompanies a  Timeline ...

Asian American Studies Explainer: What is "Yellowface"?

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I was going through some of my teaching notes from last year and came across these introductory comments on the concept of Yellowface, wh...