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Paul Nadal
is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Rhetoric at U.C. Berkeley. His research is an interdisciplinary study of Asia Pacific/American literature and global development. With special attention to works of fiction from postcolonial Philippines and Asian America, his study addresses the role of narrative with regard to the instruments of economic globalization, seeking to discover in literary form a critique of development and for thinking the Asia Pacific region otherwise. He 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 the Graduate Program in Literature and Critical Theory at Duke University.
Currently, Paul is a graduate student instructor for "Global Poverty," led by Professor Ananya Roy of City and Regional Planning. In Spring 2012, he will be teaching a reading and composition course on the topic of "The Idea of Asia" (course description).
He is also one of the editors for Reclamations, a journal on the struggle for public education in California and beyond.
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