Paula Park’s research and teaching interests are Latin American, US Latinx, and Hispanophone and Anglophone Philippine literature and cultural productions from the nineteenth century to the present. She specializes in diasporic writers, transpacific studies, and the complex legacies of empire and colonization. Park’s book, Intercolonial Intimacies: Relinking Latin/o America to the Philippines, 1898-1964 (U of Pittsburgh P 2022), reexamines the geographically bound and politically charged definitions of Latinidad and Hispanidad by analyzing the work of twentieth-century Filipino and Latin American writers, cultural critics, and diplomats. Her current book project focuses on modern Latin American literature and diplomatic archives on the Pacific. Her research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Prior to joining Rice, Park taught at Wesleyan University from 2015 to 2024.