Academic Team
Yen Vu
Faculty member in Literature
Fields of Interest: Modern Vietnamese and diasporic literature, colonial history, postcolonial theory, intellectual history, Southeast Asian ecocriticism
Education: Ph.D. 2019, Cornell University, USA
Bio:
Yen Vu is a first-generation Vietnamese-American scholar in French and Vietnamese Studies who earned her PhD in French Studies from Cornell University. Prior to coming to Fulbright, she taught French language and literature at Hamilton College, a top-15 liberal arts college in the US for two years, and held a postdoctoral research position in Modern Vietnamese Studies at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. She specializes in Vietnamese francophone literature and intellectual history in 20th century Vietnam, with her present manuscript project focusing on how Vietnamese intellectuals have worked with and through language to establish their own ideas of freedom in colonial and postcolonial Vietnam.
Courses:
- Introduction to Literary Studies: Writing the Self
- Literature and the Mind
- 20th century Vietnamese Literature of Dissent
- Ecofeminisms: Gender, Ecology, Epistemology
Select Publications:
Language as form: The politics and poetics of writing in French in 20th century Vietnam – book manuscript in progress
“An Ecology of morality: political and material excess in Duong Thu Huong’s novels” Environmental Humanities. 16, no. 1 (2024): 100–117
“Doi Kieu: An Ecofeminist Interpretation of Truyen Kieu,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies. 19 no. 3-4 (2024): 136-152. (with Nguyen Huu Yen Le)
“Phạm Quỳnh, borrowed language, and the ambivalences of colonial discourse” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 51, no. 1–2 (2020): 114–31
