David L. Eng is Professor of English, comparative literature, and Asian American studies. He received his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley and his B.A. in English from Columbia University. His areas of specialization include American literature, Asian American studies, Asian diaspora, psychoanalysis, critical race theory, queer studies, gender studies, and visual culture.

He is author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy (Duke, 2010) and Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (Duke, 2001). In addition, he is co-editor with David Kazanjian of Loss: The Politics of Mourning (California, 2003), with Alice Y. Hom of Q & A: Queer in Asian America (Temple, 1998-winner of a Lambda Literary Award and Association of Asian American Studies Book Award), and with Judith Halberstam and Jose Muñoz of a special issue of the journal Social Text (2005), "What's Queer about Queer Studies Now?" He is currently at work on two new projects: an analysis of the relationship between political and psychic genealogies of reparation and a forthcoming special issue of Social Text, co-edited with Teemu Ruskola and Shuang Shen, "China and the Human."

Professor Eng is on the governing council of the American Council of Learned Societies and is a member of the editorial boards of Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Queeries: A Journal of Queer Studies, Social Text, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality: Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies, Treatment, Research. He is on the Board of Directors of the Asian American Writers' Workshop and is the former Board President of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in New York City.