Transpacific Studies

In recent years, the issue of how regions are connected and what kinds of cultural exchanges take place on a global scale has become of increasing importance. The term transpacific has come to signify the nexus of these flows of culture, capital, ideas, and labor across the Pacific. Drawing from Asian Studies, American Studies, and Asian American Studies, a new generation of scholars is developing new models for considering the geopolitical struggle over the Pacific and its attendant possibilities for inequality and exploitation. The word and concept of the transpacific can be harnessed for purposes of both domination and resistance.

The Transpacific Studies series seeks to publish monographs that look at cultural and political movements and artistic works that have arisen to contest state, corporate, and military ambitions and attempt to place them in a context that should be more dynamic than older ideas of the “Asia Pacific” or the “Pacific Rim” of global trade.

Series Editors

Janet Alison Hoskins, University of Southern California
Viet Thanh Nguyen, University of Southern California

Editorial Board

Brian Bernards, University of Southern California
Adrian De Leon, New York University
Nancy Lutkehaus, University of Southern California

Format and Funding

Transpacific Studies will be an open access book series with the University of California Press’s Luminos Program. Books in the series will be made available as free e-books as well as paperback editions.  It is understood that as participants in the Luminous program, authors are expected to forgo royalties on any future sales of the paperback editions. Subvention begins at $7500 for non-UC authors, $5000 for UC authors. (UCLA and UCSD authors require no outside funding due to an Open Access subvention available from their campus libraries). Books shall not exceed 90,000 words and 20 images.