Skirball Talks: Linda Sarsour

Paula Chakravartty is Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication and the Gallatin School at NYU. She is the co-editor of Race, Empire and the Crisis of the Subprime (2013), the co-author, of Media Policy and Globalization (2006), and co-editor of Global Communications: Towards a Transcultural Political Economy (, 2008).  Her recent publications include a special issue on “Mediatized Populisms: Inter-Asian Lineages,” International Journal of Communication (December, 2017); “Infrastructures of Empire: Towards a Critical Geopolitics of Media and Information Studies,” for Media, Culture and Society (2016). Her new research focuses on new frontiers of labor and migration in India. She is part of the NYU Coalition for Fair Labor, a member of the Gulf Labor Artist Coalition and is an active member of the NYU Sanctuary coalition (https://www.nyusanctuary.org).

Crystal Parikh is Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis and English at New York University, and the Director of the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. She specializes in twentieth-century and contemporary American literature and culture. In addition to numerous essays and articles, Professor Parikh has published Writing Human Rights: The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), which is the recipient of the Association for Asian American Studies Award for Outstanding Achievement in Humanities and Cultural Studies: Literature. She is also the author of An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literature and Culture (Fordham University Press, 2009), which was awarded the Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary Studies. She co-edited with Daniel Y. Kim, the Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature (2015) and is currently editing The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature (forthcoming 2019).