An internationally recognized cultural critic and creative artist, E. San Juan Jr. is director of the Philippnes Cultural Studies Center in Connecticut. He was recently fellow of the Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, and Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in Spring 2003. Among his recent books are Racism and Cultural Studies, Beyond Postcolonial Theory, From Exile to Diaspora, Hegemony and Strategies of Transgression, and After Postcolonialism, winner of the 2001 Gustavus Myers Huamn Rights Center Outstanding Book Award. He received a Centennial Award for Achievement in Literature from the Cultural Center of the Philippines.