Naoki Sakai

is Goldwin Smith Professor of Asian Studies who teaches in the departments of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies and is a member of the graduate field of History at Cornell University. He has published in a number of languages in the fields of comparative literature, intellectual history, translation studies, the studies of racism and nationalism, and the histories of semiotic and literary multitude - speech, writing, corporeal expressions, calligraphic regimes, and phonographic traditions. He has led the project of TRACES, a multilingual series in five languages - Korean, Chinese, English, Spanish and Japanese (German will be added in 2013) - and served as its founding senior editor (1996 - 2004). In addition to TRACES, Naoki Sakai serves as a member of the following editorial boards, positions east asia cultural critique, Post-colonial studies, International Dictionary of Intellectual History, Multitudes and so forth.