AUGUSTO ESPIRITU
Associate Professor of History

442 Greg Hall, MC-466
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 244-2090
aespirit@uiuc.edu

Augusto Espiritu (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2000) specializes in Asian Americans, postcolonial studies, comparative intellectual histories of American Empire, and Filipino American history. He co-edited the oral history of United Farm Workers Union vice-president, Philip Vera Cruz: A Personal History of Filipino Immigrants and the Farmworkers Movement (1992). He has also published "Philip Vera Cruz," The Asian American Encyclopedia (1995); "The Spirits of the Winds," Winds of April, a novel by N.V.M. Gonzalez (1998); and "The 'Pre-History' of an Asian-American Writer: N.V.M. Gonzalez' Allegory of Decolonization," Amerasia Journal (Winter 1998). He is at work on a book manuscript on nationalism, colonial culture, race, and gender entitled: "'Expatriate Affirmations': The Performance of Nationalism and Patronage in Filipino American Intellectual Life.

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Five Faces of Exile: The Nation and Filipino American Intellectuals