Dr. David G. Siglos Jr. received his Ph.D. in English at the University of California, Riverside. He is currently a lecturer in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where he teaches Intro to Asian American Studies, U.S. Race and Empire, and Race, Gender, and Sexuality. His book project, entitled Arte-culations: The Novel Form and the Filipino Style of Being, explores contemporary Filipino American novels to describe the inner-workings of what he calls “the Filipino style of being.” The project argues that to think about the Filipino culture as a style is to account for its aesthetic production and provide a historical context which corresponds with Philippine conditions of modernity. His project intervenes in recent Asian Americanist scholarship on narrative and consumption by providing an alternative way of thinking about commodity colonialism in the wake of the U.S. Imperial War. He argues that the carnivalesque quality of the Filipino culture—particularly its everyday linguistic and performative modes (characterized by constant coding, referentiality, and wordplay)—is disruptive of Western literary forms and traditions.