Viet Thanh Nguyen, University of Southern California
Professional Information
- Full name
- Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Job title
- Associate Professor
- URL
- http://college.usc.edu/faculty/faculty1003574.html
- Role
- faculty
- Education
- UC Berkeley, BA, PhD
- Bio
- Viet Thanh Nguyen is an associate professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002). His articles have appeared in numerous journals and books, including PMLA, American Literary History, Western American Literature, positions: east asia cultures critique, The New Centennial Review, Postmodern Culture, and Asian American Studies After Critical Mass. He has held residencies and scholarships at the Fine Arts Work Center, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. His short fiction has been published in Manoa, Orchid: A Literary Review, Best New American Voices 2007, A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross-Cultural Collision and Connection, Narrative Magazine, and Gulf Coast, where his story won the 2007 Fiction Prize. He is currently working on two book projects, a collection of short stories and a comparative study of American and Vietnamese memories and representations of the American war in Viet Nam, focusing on the literary and visual arts. He is currently a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.
History
- Member for
- 1 year 3 weeks
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