Weihsin Gui (Presider) is Professor of English at the University of California-Riverside. He is the author of National Consciousness and Literary Cosmopolitics. He has coedited a special journal issue of Interventions on neoliberalism and Singaporean literature and another special issue of Antipodes on Southeast Asian and Australian literature. He has published widely on Southeast Asian anglophone literature, including two journal articles on comics and speculative fiction from Singapore.
Frances H. Tran is Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University. She specializes in contemporary Asian American and multiethnic literatures and popular culture. Her research draws on science and speculative fictions to explore the practices and pedagogies they illuminate for critiquing the violences of racialization and social inequity. Her current book project attends to the centrality of Asia to the imagination of futurity in the so-called “Asian” or “Pacific” century. In particular, she elaborates Asian futurism as a critical framework for probing the material conditions and imaginaries that underwrite our contemporary moment. Drawing on a transnational multidisciplinary archive of literature, film, photography, and visual art, she traces how narratives of “rising Asia” create openings from which to investigate the relationship between Asian racialization and the production of futurity.