Email: quan.ha@fulbright.edu.vn
Fields of Interest:
- American literature since 1900; critical race theory and postcolonial literature
- Race, ethnicity, migration, and diaspora in American literature
- Vietnam War literature
- Literary translation
Education:
- Ph.D. in American Literature, 2011, Texas Tech University, USA
- M.A. in English, 2006, Middle Tennessee State University, USA
- Post-M.Ed. Curricular Training, 2003-2004, Troy University (main campus), USA
- M.Ed. in English Language Arts, 2003, Troy University (main campus), USA
- B.A. in English Language Studies, 2000, Da Lat University, Vietnam
Bio: Quan Manh Ha teaches and researches American literature since 1900, with an emphasis on race, ethnicity, migration, and diaspora in multiethnic American literary texts. He was born and grew up in Da Lat, Vietnam, and came to the United States for graduate studies in 2001, after he had completed his B.A. in English Language Studies at the Da Lat University. He is a tenured professor of American Literature & Ethnic Studies at the University of Montana (USA), and in 2023 he is Senior Visiting Professor in Arts & Media Studies at Fulbright University Vietnam.
Besides publishing several scholarly articles and essays in journals, he is committed to translating Vietnamese literature into English to fight against Vietnamese invisibility in master American narratives about the Vietnam War and to promote cross-cultural understanding and global discourse on colonialism, imperialism, and the war from all sides of the conflict. He has published three books of literary translation: Other Moons: Vietnamese Short Stories of the American War and Its Aftermath (Columbia University Press, 2020), Luminous Nights: Pioneering Vietnamese Short Stories (La Frémillerie, France, 2021), and Hà Nội at Midnight: Stories by Bảo Ninh (Texas Tech University Press, 2022).
Select Publications:
Ha, Quan Manh, and Lindsey Gallagher. “Violent Memory and Generational Conflict in Andrew Lam’s ‘Birds of Paradise Lost’ and Viet Thanh Nguyen’s ‘The Immolation.’” Studies in the American Short Story, vol. 2, no. 2, 2021, pp. 136-56. https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/sass/article-abstract/2/2/136/294099/Violent-Memory-and-Generational-Conflict-in-Andrew?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Ha , Quan Manh, and Mia Tompkins. “‘The truth is memory has not forgotten us’: Memory, Identity, and Storytelling in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.” The Rocky Mountain Review of Languages and Literature, vol. 75, no. 2, 2021, pp. 199-220. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/846662
Ha, Quan Manh, and Sierra Gideon. “Purple Hats and Threatened Whiteness in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Everything That Rises Must Converge.’” Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, vol. 10, no. 1, 2020, pp. 9-25. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/fict/2020/00000010/00000001/art00002;jsessionid=7t0hqoq7ja0lb.x-ic-live-01
Ha, Quan Manh, and William Frost. “Postcolonial Satire, Imperialist Nostalgia, and Reconciliation in Huy Duong Phan’s ‘The Billion Dollar Skeleton’ and Andrew Lam’s ‘Slingshot.’” Journal of the Short Story in English, vol. 71, 2018, pp. 271-290. https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/2321
Ha, Quan Manh, and Chase Greenfield. “‘It’s oil and water’”: Race, Gender, Power, and Trauma in Vu Tran’s Dragonfish.” Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies, vol. 8, 2017, pp. 26-42. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/aaldp/vol8/iss1/5/
Ha, Quan Manh. “When Memory Speaks: Transnational Remembrances in Vietnam War Literature.” Southeast Asian Studies, vol. 5, no. 3, 2016, pp. 463-489. https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/seas/5/3/5_463/_article/-char/en
Ha, Quan Manh. “Vietnamese American Survival Literature and Human Rights Discourse.” New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, 2012, pp. 17-37. https://www.nzasia.org.nz/uploads/1/3/2/1/132180707/jas_dec2012_quanmanhha.pdf
Courses:
- Multiethnic American literature
- Diasporic Vietnamese literature
- Asian American literature
- American short story
- Studies in American drama
- American literature since 1865
