Juan Carlos “JC” Fermin is an English PhD candidate in the University of California, Irvine. JC focuses on literature from the Global South and the Philippine Diaspora, having also become an avid student of Afropessimism, Decolonial Feminisms, and Non-Western Radical Traditions. JC’s scholarship has been published in Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies (2021), International Labour and Working-Class History (2023), and Multi-Ethnic Literature in the United States (2023). In his dissertation, JC strives to dissect literary manifestations of imperial ideology, even across consciously egalitarian texts. JC aspires to build a framework capacious enough to stretch from imperial ideology in the early modern period, such as the hierarchization of racial forms that flourished concomitantly with colonial conquest, to the contemporary survival of imperial ideology in neoliberal governance.