Paul Nadal is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. His research is on the cultural politics and rhetoric of global economic development, with critical studies on the philosophy of time and history, technology and labor migration, and postcolonial literatures of the Asia-Pacific, with a focus on the Philippines and its diaspora. 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. PJ Nadal.

 

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Contact

UC Berkeley, Rhetoric Department 7408 Dwinelle Hall #2670 Berkeley, CA 94720-2670

  

 

 

 

Events / Updates

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> National University lectures on "Infrastructural Futures: The Philippine Neocolonial State in Developmental Frame" to be delivered at the University of the Philippines on July 7, 2010 and at Ateneo de Manila University on July 30, 2010, as part of Kritika Kultura Journal's Lecture Series.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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.

 

 
 

Coursework

Fall 2010
RHET 205 RHETORIC OF MODERNITY (Samera Esmeir)
RHET 240G HEIDEGGER (Pheng Cheah)

Spring 2010
RHET 240G WORLD LITERATURE AND THEORIES OF THE WORLD (Pheng Cheah)
CITY PLANNING 271 GLOBAL POVERTY (Ananya Roy)

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

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Friends

Zach Blas . Gerry Canavan. Ashley Ferro-Murray . Christopher Garland . Gladys Nubla . Claudia Salamanca . Rolando Tolentino