Field of interests:
- Postcolonial theory, Transpacific studies, diasporic studies, queer theory, urbanism.
- Asian American Literature, Vietnamese Francophone, Philippine literature in Spanish, nineteenth-century Spanish peninsular literature, Nhac Vang.
Education: Ph.D. 2022, Cornell University, USA
Bio:
Vinh Phu Pham is a scholar of Vietnamese Francophone and nineteenth-century Spanish peninsular literature. He received his BA and MA in Spanish language and Literature from Florida Atlantic University, and his Ph.D. in comparative literature from Cornell University. Vinh has taught a variety of courses including Spanish language, travel capitalism, and contemporary art. Currently he is the editor of the US Vietnam Review of the University of Oregon’s US-Vietnam Research Center.
Courses:
Consumption, Modernity and Global Queer Identities
Selected Publications:
“Berlin as an Urban Synecdoche for Immigration.” Migration and Discrimination: Pakistan, Turkey and their European Diasporas. Ed. Esra Akcan and Iftikhar Dadi. Cornell UP (Forthcoming 2023)
“Rhizomatic Transnationalism: Nhạc Vàng and the Legacy of Republicanism in Overseas Vietnamese Communities.” War and Society in South Vietnam, 1960-1975: Crises, Opportunities, and Diasporic Legacies. Editors: Trinh Luu and Tuong Vu, University of Hawaii Press (forthcoming 2023)
“Translating Aporia(s): The figure of (un)translatability in Kim Thúy’s Mãn.” Of Peninsula and Archipelago: the landscape of translation in Southeast Asia. Routledge. Routledge (forthcoming 2023)
“Death of an empire: Decadence and Asian pragmatism in José Martí’s Annam.” The Nation and its Margins: Rethinking Community. Editors: Aditi Chandra and Vinita Chandra, Cambridge Scholars, 2019, 152-171.
“There in the Beyond.” TRANSverse Journal: Resistance and Resilience, No. 17, 28 Sept. 2018
“The Dangers of Myth: Lessons from Derrida on Responsibility and the Extreme Right in Spain” Transitions: Journal of Franco-Iberian Studies 12 (Fall 2018):109-30.
