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Lan P. Duong
Occupation	Associate Professor and Undergraduate Advisor in the Media and Cultural Studies Department at UC Riverside
Notable works	Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism; Troubling Borders: Literature and Art by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora

Lan P. Duong is a Vietnamese American scholar and author.

Biography

Lan P. Duong is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Advisor in the Media and Cultural Studies Department at UC Riverside. She is the author of Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism. The book explores the films and literature of the Vietnamese and Vietnamese diaspora through the cultural politics of collaboration. Duong's second book project, Transnational Vietnamese Cinemas: Imagining Nationhood in a Globalized Era, for which she has recently received a Fulbright and Asian Research Institute Fellowship, examines Vietnamese cinema from its inception to the present day. Her research interests include feminist film theory, postcolonial literature, and Asian/American film and literature. Duong’s critical works can be found in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, the Journal of Asian American Studies, Amerasia, Asian Cinema, Discourse, Velvet Light Trap, and the anthologies, Transnational Feminism in Film and Media and Southeast Asian Cinema. Her most recent work is a collaborative effort, an edited anthology called Troubling Borders: Literature and Art by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora. Troubling Borders was awarded Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2014 and the Bronze Award from the Association for Borderland Studies for the Best Book in Border Studies. She is also a poet and has been published in Watermark, Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Poetry, Tilting the Continent, and Crab Orchard Review. Duong teaches classes on Introduction to Cultural Studies, Introduction to Film, Feminist Film Theory, Asian American Women’s Films and Literature, Asian Horror, Southeast Asian Diasporic Literature and Film, Vietnamese Cinemas, Chinese Cinema, Hong Kong Cinema, and The Vietnam War in Film.

James Kyung-Jin Lee, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine, writes of Treacherous Subjects

Duong's Treacherous Subjects inaugurates sui generis the field of diasporic Vietnamese feminism. She instructs us what objects and subjects to look at and study, how they might be comprehended, and why such inquiry is so crucial for all of us. I can't think of another cultural studies project in a decade that has accomplished so much in one book. Duong's careful consideration of both filmic and literary genres demonstrates her explicatory erudition. Treacherous Subjects is a monumental work upon which a generation of future students and scholars will build. It will establish Duong as the principal intellectual figure of the field she will have helped to establish.

Critical Refugee Studies Collective

Duong founded the Critical Refugee Studies Collective, which received a $1.6 million dollar grant to allow the group to collaborate across five UC campuses to develop curricula, symposia and a website, devoted to Critical Refugee Studies.

Selected works

Books

• Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism
• Troubling Borders: Literature and Art by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora

References

Category:Living people Category:American academics Category:University of California Riverside faculty