Paul Allatson

Paul Allatson is an academic and cultural critic based in Sydney, Australia, where he works in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in the University of Technology Sydney. His current research interests emerge in the intersections of Latino/a cultural studies, US cultural studies, and Transamerican studies. Paul is also interested in postcolonial, transcultural, and queer theoretical traditions. Paul has published widely in the areas of Latino/a culture, transamerican transcultural and literary studies, postcolonial theory, sexuality studies, and, film, media and popular culture studies. Paul is the author of "Latino Dreams: Transcultural Traffic and the U.S. National Imaginary" (Rodopi, 2002), and "Key Terms in Latino/a Cultural and Literary Studies" (Blackwell, 2007), and co-editor (with Jo McCormack) of "Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities" (Rodopi, 2008) and (with Elaine Jeffreys) of "Celebrity Philanthropy" (Intellect, 2015). Paul is the founding editor of the multilingual "PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies." He is also on the international editorial advisory boards of the journal "Latino Studies" (Palgrave Macmillan) and the "Writing in Latinidad: Autobiographical Voices of U.S. Latinos/as Series" (University of Wisconsin Press).