Alden Sajor Marte-Wood

Alden Sajor Marte-Wood is an Assistant Professor of English at Vassar College. He is a cultural studies scholar whose work focuses on Global Asias, political economy, aesthetic mediation, and the environmental humanities. At Vassar, Alden teaches courses in Asian American literature, Asian literatures in English, ecocriticism, global climate fiction, postcolonial thought, and critical theory.

His current book project, Reproductive Fictions: Overseas Filipina Writers and Capitalism’s Crisis of Care, establishes a longue durée continuity between martial law-era crises of social reproduction in the Philippines, the state-sponsored export of care work, the contemporary outsourcing of digital intimacy, and diasporic Filipina literature. This project has received support from the American Council of Learned Societies, the First Book Institute at the Center for American Literary Studies, and the Humanities Research Center at Rice University.

Alden’s scholarly writing has appeared in ASAP Review, ARIEL, Meridians, Verge, Post45, Feminist Theory, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics, Post Script, The Journal of Asian American Studies, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies, Alon, Philippine Studies, Asian American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students, and The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory. Recent research is forthcoming in The Routledge Companion to Literature and the Environment, Inter-Asia Intermediality (Amsterdam UP), and a special issue of Amerasia Journal.

Alden currently serves on the executive committee of the MLA’s Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum. Before arriving at Vassar, Alden was an assistant professor at Rice University where he was awarded the Allison Sarofim Distinguished Teaching Professorship in the Humanities for his undergraduate pedagogy.