Contributors
- Contributors
Diem-My T. Bui currently is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research interests include transnational feminist media studies, critical cultural studies, ethnic studies, popular culture, and film.
Long Bui is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Riverside.
Anh Thang Dao was born in Viet Nam and grew up in Poland and Germany. She received her PhD in American studies and ethnicity from the University of Southern California. Dao's dissertation, titled "Writing Exile: Vietnamese Literature in the Diaspora," conceptualizes a deterritorialized notion of exile through the example of Vietnamese diasporic literature in the United States, France, and Germany. Dao's scholarly interests include theories of transnationalism, exile and diaspora, and memory studies, as well as Asian and Vietnamese diasporic literature and culture.
Ly Chong Thong Jalao is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research explores the junctures between literature, memory, and ideology in the Hmong diaspora, and he is the author of "Ideology and Cosmology in the Hmong Diaspora: Terrorism and the Case of General Vang Pao," which positions Vang Pao within the context of early Hmong messianic movements in Laos in order to elucidate his hold on the Hmong diasporic imaginary. [End Page 943]
Soo Ah Kwon is an assistant professor of Asian American studies and human and community development at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her book, Uncivil Youth: Activism and Affirmative Governmentality, is in press from the Duke University Press, and she has published in leading journals in Asian American studies and anthropology. Her second project examines the role of nongovernmental organizations and development agencies in shaping and producing spaces for transnational youth participation and activism.
Mariam B. Lam is associate professor of comparative literature, media and cultural studies, and director of Southeast Asian studies at the University of California, Riverside. She specializes in Southeast Asian and diasporic literary and visual cultures, and Viet Nam and has secondary interests in Cambodia, Laos, and the Philippines. She is founding coeditor in chief of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies. Publications include Vietnamese Americans: Lessons in American History (Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance, 2001, 2004), Not Coming to Terms: Viet Nam, Post-Trauma and Cultural Politics (forthcoming, Duke University Press), and essays on postcolonial Indochinese film, Southeast Asian transnational and diasporic culture, and post-Cold War cultural redevelopment.
Viet Le is an artist, writer, and curator. Le's artwork has been exhibited at Laguna Art Museum, California; DoBaeBacSa Gallery, Seoul, Korea; Cape Cod Museum of Art, Massachusetts; The Banff Centre, Canada; Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts; Shoshin Performance Space, New York University; Highways Performance Space, California; and Open Studio, Canada, among other venues. His work has been featured in Amerasia Journal, Asia Pacific American Journal, corpus, the Tebot Bach poetry anthologies, and Fuse and Nha magazines. He received his PhD from the University of Southern California and a postdoctoral fellowship from Academia Sinica, Taipei. Le is an assistant professor at the California College of the Arts. vietle.net
Fiona I. B. Ngô is assistant professor of Asian American studies and gender and women's studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ngô's scholarship concerns the remains of war and empire in spaces of culture. Her first book, Imperial Blues, expands on analytics of urban space to understand the effects of imperialism on Jazz Age culture and its traffic in racialized and sexualized bodies (forthcoming, Duke University Press). She has also published in journals including Amerasia Journal and Camera Obscura on Southeast Asian diasporic cultural production, part of an ongoing project titled "Structures of Sense."
Mimi Thi Nguyen is associate professor of gender and women's studies and Asian American studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her first book, The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages, focuses on the promise of "giving" freedom concurrent with and contingent on waging war and its afterlife (Duke University Press, 2012). With her second project on the obligations of beauty, she continues to pursue her [End Page 944] scholarship through the frame of transnational...
