Jered Mabaquiao (he/him) is a Filipino-American, 3rd year PhD student in the English department at the University of Texas at Arlington. He teaches rhetoric and composition and serves as an executive board member for the Dallas Asian American Historical Society which works on preserving, amplifying, and building cultural and social narratives for Asian American communities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. His research interests include comparative and intersectional approaches to race, ethnicity, class, and gender specifically within literary criticism, film and media, and critical theory. Jered’s previous projects interrogate racial melancholia, identity, and trauma in Asian American narratives. He has also held a position with the Mellon Data Rangers Digital Humanities focusing on black literary and oral tradition, hip-hop, visualizing and constructing data storytelling. Currently, Jered’s research in Latinx studies examines transnational representation and (re)formation of cultural identities in popular U.S. culture and media. He seeks to trace the way ethnic, racial, and political identity is portrayed through speculative fiction genres, involving horror and science fiction.