Weihsin Gui is Associate Professor of English at the University of California-Riverside. He is the author of National Consciousness and Literary Cosmopolitics (2013) and the editor of Common Lines and City Spaces (2014), an essay collection on Singaporean poet Arthur Yap. He also co-edited a journal special issue of Interventions about Singapore and neoliberalism (2016) and another special issue of Antipodes on Southeast Asian and Australia-New Zealand literary and cultural connections (2020). His essay about “Contemporary Literature From Singapore” appeared in the online Oxford Research Encyclopedia for Literature (2017) and his chapter on “Narrating the Global South East Asian Diaspora” was published in Volume 10 of the Oxford History of the Novel in English (2019).
Harrod Suarez is Associate Professor of English and Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College. His work examines 20th- and 21st-century literature, film, and art to explore issues about how we become American and the roles played by race, class, gender, and sexuality play in this transnational and diasporic process. He is the author of
The Work of Mothering: Globalization and the Filipino Diaspora (2017) and has published essays in MELUS, Journal of Asian American Studies, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, and the online Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature
and Culture.