Paula Moya is the author of The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading and Contemporary Literary Criticism (Stanford University Press, 2015) and Learning from Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles (University of California Press, 2002). She is also the co-editor (with Hazel Rose Markus) of Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century, co-edited with Hazel Rose Markus (W.W. Norton, Inc., 2010). This interdisciplinary volume includes a co-authored introductory essay by Moya and Markus that sets forth a critical rethinking of the concepts of race and ethnicity. Moya's other books include Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism (University of California Press, 2000), and Identity Politics Reconsidered (Palgrave 2006). She is a Professor at Stanford University where she teaches primarily race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and narrative and narrative theory.