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Nadal, Paul
May 31st, 2008 under Grad Students

Graduate Student, Rhetoric Department, UC Berkeley

Paul NadalPaul Nadal is a doctoral student in the Rhetoric Department at UC Berkeley working on Asia-Pacific cultural studies, literature, and film. Paul holds a B.A. in English and Ethnic Studies from the University of Washington, an M.A. in Asian American Studies from UCLA, and has studied at the University of the Philippines and Duke University’s Literature Program. One of his current projects includes research on queer aesthetics within the digital filmmaking movement in contemporary Philippine cinema, which is part of his broader concerns around sexuality, postcoloniality, and globalization

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“What needs to be effectively rendered are other possibilities of desire afforded in our acts of remembering, belonging, and living—experiential activities which immediately deal with but cannot, must not, be subsumed by the totalizing operations of modernization.”
- “Toward a Political Economy of Desire,” MA Thesis, UCLA, 2007

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