Crystal Parikh

Crystal Parikh is Professor at New York University in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Department of English, and Director of the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University. She is the author of Writing Human Rights: The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color (2017) and An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness in Emergent US Literature and Culture (2009), which won the Modern Language Association (MLA) Prize in United States Latina and Latino and...See more

Crystal Parikh is Professor at New York University in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Department of English, and Director of the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University. She is the author of Writing Human Rights: The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color (2017) and An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness in Emergent US Literature and Culture (2009), which won the Modern Language Association (MLA) 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 (Cambridge, 2015). See less