Faculty Profiles
- Allan Punzalan Isaac
- Professor of American Studies and English
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- Office: Ruth Adams Building, Room 201, Cook/Douglass Campus
- Primary Areas of Specialization: Asian American Literature; Critical Race Studies; Migration and Diaspora
- Field of Interest: Asian-American, Critical Race Studies, Gender & Sexuality, Postcolonial, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
- About:
Professor Allan Punzalan Isaac specializes in Asian American and comparative race studies and examines issues around migration, postcoloniality, gender and sexuality, and the Philippines and its diaspora. His first book American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America was the recipient of the Association for Asian American Studies Cultural Studies Book Award. His second book is entitled, Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor. He has taught at DeLaSalle University-Taft in Manila, Philippines as a Senior Fulbright Scholar. His current research focuses on death and dying in the Filipino diaspora. He teaches a broad range of courses in theory and literature, Asian American Studies, critical race theory, U.S. cultural studies, and comparative race studies.
- Undergraduate Courses Taught:
- Asian American Literature and Its Discontents
- Gender & Sexuality in Asian American Literature
- Education: PhD, New York UniversityBA, Williams College