J. PAUL NARKUNAS

J. Paul Narkunas received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and taught at the Pratt Institute and Princeton University before joining the Department of English.   He has articles published or forthcoming in Theory and Event, Modern Fiction Studies , Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory , and in several collections.   His areas of research interest are literary and social theory, 20 th century American literature, law and literature, Asia/America literatures and cultures, Anglophone literatures, and visual and cultural studies.   He is presently completing two manuscripts.   Flotsam and Jetsam in Global Capital Flows: Global English and the Future of Literature charts the effects of globalization and "dollar diplomacy" on the formation of US literature and culture and analyzes the institutionalization of English as the US's state language and as the first test case of "Global English."   The second manuscript, The Ahuman: Thinking Beyond the Global Human , critiques "humanitarian imperialism" through readings of UNESCO cultural heritage programs, human rights law, and World Bank educational policies and chronicles their effect across sites that once were the privileged purview of nation-states, such as culture, literatures and languages, and the law.