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PJ Nadal

Paul Nadal is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. His research works across the disciplines of comparative literature, social and political thought, and Asian American studies. His project addresses the history and rhetoric of economic development by intersecting it with studies on the philosophy of time and history, labor migrations, gender, technology and capital in the Asia-Pacific, with a focus on the Philippines. Paul holds an M.A. from UCLA (Asian American Studies, 2007), a B.A. from the University of Washington (English, Ethnic Studies, 2005), and has also studied at the University of the Philippines and Duke University's Graduate Program in Literature.

 

news

⟩ Discussion leader for "Queer Marxisms." UC Berkeley Interdisciplinary Marxism Working Group. Thursday, February 18, 2010. 6-8 pm in 300 Wheeler Hall.

"Building Times: How Lines of Care Occupied Wheeler Hall" by Amanda Armstrong and Paul Nadal for Reclamations Journal. December 2009.

"The Work of Time: Development, Comparison, and Postcolonial Critique." Conference paper presentation for University of Texas-Austin Comparative Literature Conference, 16-17 October 2009.

"Allegories of Overdevelopment: Philippine Postcoloniality against the Time of Modernization." Conference paper presentation for the MLA Convention in December 2009 in Philadelphia, PA.

 

current coursework

Fall 2009
RHET 240G HEGEL (Judith Butler)
RHET 240G POSTCOLONIALITY (Trinh, Minh-ha)
ANTH 299 PERIPHERIES OF THE ASIA-PACIFIC (Aihwa Ong)

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