Crystal Parikh is Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis and English at New York University. She specializes in twentieth-century and contemporary transnational American literature and culture. In addition to numerous essays and articles, Parikh is the author of Writing Human Rights: The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color (University of Minnesota Press, 2017)  and An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literature and Culture (Fordham University Press, 2009). She is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature (2019), and she co-edited with Daniel Y. Kim, The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature (2015). Professor Parikh is currently serving as the Director of the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.