Neferti Tadiar is Professor and Chair of Women's Studies at Barnard College.  Her academic interests include transnational and third world feminisms; postcolonial theory; critical theories of race and subjectivity; literary and social theory; cultural studies of the Asia Pacific region; and Philippine studies. Her work concerns the role of cultural practice and social imagination in the production of wealth, power, marginality and liberatory movements in the context of global relations. While her research focuses on contemporary Philippine and Filipino cultures and their relation to political and economic change, she addresses, more broadly, questions of gender, race, and sexuality in discourses and material practices of nationalism, transnationalism, and globalization. She is currently working on a book-project (with Jonathan L. Beller) entitled: Present Senses: Aesthetics, Affect, Asia in the Global, and beginning a new research project entitled Remaindered Life: Becoming Human in a Time of War. She is currently co-editor of the journal Social Text. Recent publications include Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization (Duke University, 2009); Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation, co-edited with Angela Y. Davis (Palgrave Press, 2005); Fantasy-Production: Sexual Economies and Other Philippine Consequences for the New World Order (Hong Kong University Press/ Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2004), Winner of the Philippine National Book Award (2005); "Empire," "Collective History: Thirty Years of Social Text," Special Issue of Social Text, Volume 27, Number 3 100, Fall 2009: 112-117; "If Not Mere Metaphor...Sexual Economies Revisited," Special Issue of The Scholar and the Feminist Online, Issue 7.3 (Summer 2009); "Borders on Belonging," Introduction to "Borders on Belonging: Gender and Immigration," Special Issue of The Scholar and the Feminist Online, Issue 6.3 (Summer 2008); "Cultural Revolution Internationale?" with Jonathan L. Beller, "And Now China?" A Special Issue of Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art, No. 11 (March 2008);  "Popular Laments: Affective Literacies of Democratization and War," Cultural Studies, Volume 23, Number 1 (January 2009): 1-26; "By The Waysides of the Globopolis," Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art, 4 (January 2007) [Part of the International documenta 12 magazines project]. Translated into Spanish and republished in Filipinas: Arte, Identidad y Discurso Poscolonial, ed. Juan Guardiola (Ministerio de Cultural, Gobierno de España, 2009); "Metropolitan Life and Uncivil Death" PMLA, 122, 1 (January 2007): 1-9.