Education
Ph.D., New York University
B.A., Williams College
Research Interests
Asian American Literature; Critical Race Studies; Literature and Law
Biographical Notes
Allan Punzalan Isaac is Associate Professor of American Studies and English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He specializes in Asian American, comparative ethnic and postcolonial aspects of contemporary American literary and cultural studies. His book American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America is the recipient of the Association for Asian American Studies Cultural Studies Book Award in 2008. He has been a Senior Fulbright Scholar at DeLaSalle University-Taft in Manila, Philippines. His latest book on labor-time in affective economies is titled Communal Worlds in Contracted Time (2021). His current research focuses on death and dying in the Filipino diaspora.
Awards, Fellowships, and Grants
- Association for Asian American Studies Cultural Studies Book Award
- Senior Fulbright Scholar-Philippines
Selected Publications
American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America (2006)
Courses Offered
Undergraduate:
- Asian American Literature and Its Discontents
- Gender & Sexuality in Asian American Literature
