Neferti Tadiar is Professor of Women's Studies at Barnard College and Director of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference.  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 entitled: Discourse on Empire: Living Under the Rule of Permanent War and beginning a new research project entitled Schooling National Subjects: Experience and Education in US Colonial Philippines. Recent publications include Things Fall Away: Philippine Literatures, Historical Experience and Tangential Makings of Globality (Duke University, forthcoming); 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); “Challenges for Cultural Studies Under the Rule of Global War”, Kritika Kultura, no. 4 (March 2004): 34-47; "In the Face of Whiteness as Value: Fall-out of Metropolitan Humanness”, Qui Parle, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 2003): 143-182; "Filipinas ‘Living in a Time of War’" in Body Politics: Essays on Cultural Representations of Women’s Bodies, ed. Odine Ma. de Guzman (Quezon City: Center for Women's Studies, University of the Philippines, 2002). Reprinted in Melinda L. de Jesus, Pinay Power (Routledge, 2005).