Naoki Sakai is Goldwin Smith Professor of Asian Studies who teaches Comparative Literature, Asian Studies and History at Cornell University. He has published in the elds of comparative literature, intellectual history, translation studies, the studies of racism and nationalism, and the histories of textuality. His publications include: Translation and Subjectivity (University of Minnesota Press, 1997); Voices of the Past (Cornell University Press, 1991); The Stillbirth of the Japanese as a Language and as an Ethnos (Shinyô-sha, 1995); Hope and the Constitution (Ibunsha, 2008), and The End of Pax Americana and the Nationalism of Hikikomori (Iwanami Shoten, forthcoming). He edited a number of volumes including the Fascist Japan? special issue of Positions Asia Critique (forthcoming); The End of Area, a special issue of Positions Asia Critique co-edited with Gavin Walker (forthcoming); Politics of Translation, a special issue of Translation, co-edited with Sandro Mezzadra (2014); Trans-Paci c Imagination, co-edited with Hyon Joo Yoo (World Scientific, 2012); Translation, Biopolitics, Colonial Difference, Vol. 4, Traces - A Multilingual Series of Cultural Theory and Translation, co-edited with Jon Solomon (Hong Kong University Press, 2006); Deconstructing Nationality, co-edited with Brett de Bary and Toshio Iyotani (Cornell East Asia Monograph Series, 2005). Naoki Sakai served as the founding editor for the project of TRACES, a multilingual series in ve languages - Korean, Chinese, English, Spanish and Japanese. In addition to TRACES, Naoki Sakai serves as a member of several editorial and advisory boards including Positions Asia Critique, Post-Colonial Studies, Journal of Asiatic Studies, Tamkang Review, ASPECTS, JunCture, Flying University of Transnational Studies, Transeuropéennes and Multitudes.