Jini Kim Watson is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University. Her research and teaching fields include decolonization and the global Cold War; spatial and urban theory; and transpacific and inter-Asian cultural studies. Her publications include: Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization (Fordham UP 2021; honorable mention, ACLA’s René Wellek Prize and honorable mention, MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize); The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present, co-edited with Gary Wilder (Fordham UP 2018); The New Asian City: Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form (U Minnesota P 2011); and The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature, co-edited with Ato Quayson (CUP  2023).