DVAN core members, advisors and friends.
ISABELLE THUY PELAUD (Executive Director) is associate professor in Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. She is the author of This Is All I Choose To Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature (Temple University Press, 2011). Her essays and short stories have been published in Making More Waves(1997), Tilting the Continent (2000) and Vietnam Dialogue Inside/Out (2001). Her academic work can be found in Mixed Race Literature (2002), The New Face of Asian Pacific America (2003),Amerasia Journal (2003)(2005) and Michigan Quarterly Review(2005).
VIET THANH NGUYEN (President) is an associate professor of English and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, and the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002). He has received residencies or scholarships from 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, andGulf Coast, where his story won the 2007 Fiction Prize. (Viet Nguyen’s website)
NGUYEN QUI DUC (Board Member) is an author and journalist with over 20 years of experience in the US, Europe and Asia. He was an artist in residence at Villa Montalvo in 1995. Duc was an Alexander Gerbode fellow in 2005 and received two grants from that foundation. He is now based in Ha Noi where he is pursuing various artistic projects, including an artist residency and a gallery with which DVAN is collaborating.
MARIAM B. LAM is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Media and Cultural Studies, and Director of Southeast Asian Studies at UC Riverside. She is founding co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies (U California P). Her book, Not Coming to Terms: Viet Nam, Post-Trauma and Cultural Politics (forthcoming Duke UP), analyzes cultural production and community politics within and across Viet Nam, France, and the US, while another monograph, Surfin’ the Cold Wave: New Circulations of Cold War Culture and Global Capital, travels across the terrain of Vietnamese, Khmer, Lao and Hmong culture and media networks. She specializes in literature and film, diaspora and globalization, translation, tourism, and postcoloniality.
VIET LE (Board Member) is an artist, creative writer, and curator. Lê’s artwork has been exhibited at the Banff Centre, Alberta; DoBaeBacSa Gallery, Seoul; Sa Sa Gallery, Java Gallery, Phnom Penh; among other venues. His work has been featured in Amerasia Journal; Crab Orchard Review; Newsweek Asia; and the anthologies Strange Cargo; Blue Arc; Spaces Between Us; Love, West Hollywood; Writing from the Perfume River; among others. He has received fellowships from the Citivella Ranieri Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center and PEN Center USA. Lê obtained his MFA from UC Irvine, and is currently a doctoral candidate at University of Southern California. (Viet Lê’s website)
AIMEE PHAN’s first book, We Should Never Meet: Stories (St. Martin’s Press, 2004) has won the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Prose. It was also named a Notable Book by the Kiriyama Prize in fiction, as well as a finalist for the 2005 Asian American Literary Awards. Her fiction has appeared in Colorado Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Chelsea, Prairie Schooner and Meridian. Her nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, USA Today and the Oregonian. She has received a 2010 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, a Maytag Fellowship from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a MacDowell Colony Residency. She currently chairs the Writing and Literature program at the California College of the Arts.
JULIE THI UNDERHILL is an artist, photographer, filmmaker, writer, and historian. Her poetry, essays, and oral histories have been published in Takin’ It to the Streets: A Sixties Reader (2004), Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace (2006), Embodying Asian/American Sexualities (2009), and New America Media (2010). She received a Rockefeller Fellowship from the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences (UMass- Boston, 2005-06). She received her MA in 2009 from UC Berkeley, where she is a Chancellor’s Fellow. She is currently a doctoral candidate in UCB’s department of ethnic studies, where she specializes in Cham studies, diasporic studies, Asian American film/video, Asian American history, and transnational feminisms.
CHUONG-DAI VO is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She teaches literature, films and visual art related to Asian American Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, diaspora and transnationalism. She is working on two scholarly book projects. The first, An Assemblage of Fragments: Post-war Returns in Vietnam and the Diaspora, analyzes the trope of post-war “return” as seen in the reconfiguration of the textual and the rise of the visual within the neoliberal circuits of cultural production between Vietnam and the diaspora. Her second scholarly book project will be a co-edited anthology with Viet Le about contemporary Southeast Asian visual culture–alternative art practices and spaces.