Jan Padios

Scholarship/Creative Work

Select Research Publications

2022. “Neocolonialism,” Sage Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies. E.J.R. David, Kevin Nadal, and Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, eds. SAGE.

2021. “Labor,” Keywords in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Kyla Wazana Tompkins et al., eds. New York: New York University Press.

2018. “Emotional Extraction: Feeling, Knowledge, and Power in the Digital Age,” Rivers of Emotion, Bodies of Ore exhibition catalogue, Lisa Rosendahl, ed. Trondheim, Norway: Kunsthall Trondheim.

2018. A Nation on the Line: Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.  (Recipient of the 2020 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Social Sciences)

2017. “Mining the Mind: Emotional Extraction, Productivity, and Predictability in the Twenty-First Century,” Cultural Studies 31, Iss. 2-3; DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2017.1303426

2018. “Exceptionalism as a Way of Life: U.S. Empire, Filipino Subjectivity, and the Global Call Center Industry,” in Ethnographies of U.S. Empire. Carole McGranahan and John Collins, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 149-169.

Published Interviews and More

2022. “In Conversation with Jan Padios,” Alon: Journal for Filipinx and Diasporic Studies, Vol. 2, Iss. 1.

2018. “A Nation on the Line,” New Books in Asian American Studies Podcast. Christopher Patterson, prod.

August 15, 2018 “Are Call Centers Rebranding the Philippines?” Zócalo Public Square.

2014. “Queer Confessions: Transgression, Affect, and National Crisis in the Philippines’ Call Center Industry,” Queer Sites and Sounds,” exhibit, Center for Art + Thought.

Literary Publications 

2024. 36 Dwellings. Burrow Press. (Poetry hybrid chapbook)

2019. “Parade Street,” Indiana Review 41.1 (Summer). (Runner-up, 1/2K Prize 2018)