Joseph Keith is Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University. He is the author of Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship: 1945-1960 (Rutgers UP, 2013) and co-editor of Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War (2019). His work has appeared in numerous journals as well as in The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature, The Cambridge Companion to the Novel, and Archipelagic American Studies (Duke UP, 2017). His current research project is entitled “Islands and the Aberrant Geography of US Empire.”