He recently finished Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization (forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press, 2011). He's now writing essays that read Filipino lalaki-ness (maleness/masculinity) through interdisciplinary studies of Filipino hydro/water-spaces, masculinities, and literatures situated in places such as Cebu/Mactan/Calamba/Laguna de Bay/Manila Bay (all in the Philippines); St. Malo/New Orleans (Louisiana); Astoria (Oregon); and Toronto (Canada). Fajardo teaches, "Gender, Sexuality, and Politics in Hawaii, the Philippines and Puerto Rico;" "Reading the Mississippi River: Race, Place, Gender, and Empire;" and "Sissies, Sex Workers, and Seamen" (among other courses) at the U.