
Biography
Linh Thuy Nguyễn specializes in Asian American and Southeast Asian American cultural studies, immigration and refugee studies and US militarism and race. She completed her PhD at the University of California, San Diego in the department of Ethnic Studies. Her research explores the interpersonal and structural relationships between history, memory, race, war, migration and family. She is passionate about community engagement on issues of immigration and refugees and has worked with local organizations develop community engagement and social justice pedagogy.
Her first book, Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production, (Temple UP, 2024) winner of 2024 Honorable Mention for the Gloria E. Anzaldua First Book Prize from the National Women's Studies Association examines how Vietnamese American cultural productions register lived experiences of racism in their depictions of family life and marginalization. Nearly fifty years after the end of the war in Vietnam, American children of Vietnamese refugees continue to process the meanings of the war and its consequences through creative work. Second-generation texts illustrate how the children of refugees from Vietnam are haunted by trauma and a violent, ever-present, but mostly unarticulated past.
Awards and Honors
Research
Selected Research
- Linh Thuy Nguyen, Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production, Temple University Press, Spring 2024
- “Loving Couples and Families:” Assimilation as Honorary Whiteness and the Making of the Vietnamese Refugee Family in Immigration and White Supremacy in the 21st Century (2021) Special Issue of Social Sciences Eds. Pawan Dhingra and Tanya Golash-Boza
- "Unwatchable Violence: Historical Affects and the Legacy of the Vietnam War in VietnameseAmerican Feminist Film” in Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, 4:01 (2018) 262-279https://doi.org/10.1163/23523085-00403003
Courses Taught
Spring 2024
Winter 2024
Spring 2023
Winter 2023
Autumn 2022
Spring 2022
Spring 2021