On Remaindered Life: Neferti X. M. Tadiar in Conversation with Erica R. Edwards, Paul Nadal, and Jasbir K. Puar

Erica R. Edwards is professor of African American studies and English at Yale University and the author of The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of U.S. Empire (2021) and Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership (2012).

Paul Nadal is assistant professor of English and American studies at Princeton University, where he also serves as an executive committee member of the Program in Media and Modernity. Before Princeton, Nadal was Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow in Asian American studies at Wellesley College.

Jasbir K. Puar is the author of the award-winning books The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017) (translated into Spanish and Portuguese) and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007) (French, Spanish, forthcoming in Portuguese), reissued as an expanded version for its tenth anniversary (2017). Her articles have been published in journals such as Social Text and South Atlantic Quarterly and in mainstream venues such as Al-Jazeera and the Guardian and translated into more than fifteen languages. Puar is also coauthor of exhibitions for the Sharjah Architecture Triennial (2019) and the Sharjah Art Biennial (2023). She is the recipient of the 2019 Kessler Award from the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies at CUNY, which recognizes lifetime achievement in and impact on queer research and organizing.

Neferti X. M. Tadiar is a feminist scholar of cultural practice and political economy and professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her most recent book is Remaindered Life (2022). She is founding director of the Alfredo F. Tadiar Library, an independent community library, cultural space, and publisher in San Fernando, La Union, Philippines.