CURRICULUM VITAE

Mimi Thi Nguyen
Gender and Women's Studies Program
911 S. Sixth St. MC 494
Champaign, IL 61820
 mimin at uiuc dot edu


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2006-Present University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign -- Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Asian American Studies

2004-2006 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor -- Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies


EDUCATION
2004 Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Dissertation: Representing Refugees: Gender, Nation, and Diaspora in "Vietnamese America"

1997 M.A., America Studies, New York University
Thesis: Monster Moms and Fetal Spie: Race, Citizenship, and Reproduction

1995 B.A., Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Representing Refugees (tentative title), book manuscript under revision, contracted by Duke University Press.
  • Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America, co-edited collection with Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. Includes chapter, “Bruce Lee I Love You: Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Queer Superstardom of JJ Chinois.”
  • "Thoughts on Afropunk." In Youth Subcultures: Exploring Underground America, edited by Arielle Greenberg. New York: Longman. Fall 2006.
  • "Viet Nam: Journal/Journey." In An Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World, Second Edition,, eds. Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan. New York: McGraw-Hill. 2006. 435-439.
  • “'In the arms of Pirates, Under the bodies of Sailors:' Diaspora, Desire, and Danger in Nguyen Tan Hoang's PIRATED!” In Charlie Don't Surf: Four Vietnamese American Artists, an exhibition catalogue featuring Nguyen Tan Hoang. Curated by Viet Le for Centre A. Vancouver. 2005.
  • “Operation Homecoming: Memory, History, and the Production of the Vietnamese Refugee in U.S. National and Diasporic Imaginaries.” In Topographies of Race and Gender, edited by Patricia Hilden and Shari Huhndorf. Under review by Stanford University Press and New York University Press.
  • “Queer Cyborgs and New Mutants: Race, Sexuality and Prosthetic Sociality in Digital Space.” In AsianAmerica.net, edited by Rachel Lee and Sau-Ling Wong. New York: Routledge Press, 2003. pp. 281-305.
  • “Asiatic Geekgirl Agitprop from Paper to Pixels.” In Technicolor: Race, Technology and Everyday Life, edited by Thuy Linh Tu and Alondra Nelson. New York: New York University Press, 2001. pp. 177-190.

Also published in a variety of mainstream and alternative press, including poppolitics.com, popmatters.com, Maximumrocknroll, Venus, and Punk Planet.


SELECTED INVITED PRESENTATIONS

2006

  • Beauty and the Burka: Makeovers and Global Feminisms
    McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women Seminar Series, McGill University
  • "Beauty Without Borders? Fashions, Feminisms, Neoliberalisms"
    Women's Studies Lecture Series, Duke University
  • "Beauty Without Borders? Fashions, Feminisms, Neoliberalisms"
    Bates College
  • "Napalmed Girls Go to Washington City"
    Sociology Colloquium Series "Social Justice, Social Movements, Social Science," University of California, Santa Cruz
2005
  • Public Lecture: "Bruce Lee, JJ Chinois and the Queer Technologies of Celebrity"
    Presentation: "Dressing for Democracy: Fashions, Global Feminisms, Neoliberalisms"
    Workshop: Grrrls Writing Riots Workshop
    Guest Lecture (Global Studies): "When States Hit the Runway: Vietnam." Lecturer-in-Residence at St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York,     Sponsored by Gender Studies, Global Studies, Film Studies, US Studies, Asian Studies Initiative
  • “'In the arms of Pirates, Under the bodies of Sailors:' Diaspora, Desire, and Danger in Nguyen Tan Hoang's PIRATED!” 11th Annual Gender and Sexuality Lecturer University of Texas, Austin, Radio-Television-Film
  • “Representing Refugees: Image, Affect, and Historical Justice in Transnational Feminist Critical Practices.” Gender Studies, Indiana University
  • “Security States and Patriot Acts: New Directions in Asian American Studies.” American Studies, State University of New York, Buffalo

2004

  • “Star Personas and Fan Fictions: Bruce Lee, JJ Chinois and Queer Technologies of Celebrity.” Art, Technology, and Culture Lecture Series University of California, Berkeley
  • “Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinarity.” Cultural Studies Graduate Program Symposium Series, University of California, Davis
  • Keyword Discussant: “Diaspora.” Queer Locations: Race, Space, and Sexuality Symposium University of California, Irvine (University of California Humanities Research Institute)

2003

  • “Fan Fictions: Queer Asian American Cultural Production and Popular Culture.” Asian American Studies Lecture Series, Ohio State University

  • "Postmodern Spaces and Asian/American Feminist Practices." Asian American Studies Lecture Series, Scripps College / Claremont College, California


SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2006

  • "Missing Persons: Race, Sex and Reimagining Punk Rock's Archive." Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference Vancouver, Canada (CANCELLED)

2005

  • "'Operation Homecoming:' Militarisms, Masculinities, and the Commemorative 'Origin' of the Vietnamese in America." American Studies Association Annual Conference, Washington DC
  • "Calendar Girls." Association of Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Los Angeles, California
  • “Fashioning Transnationality: Gender, Dress, and Modernity in Vietnam.” Trans/Positions: A Conference on Feminist Theory in Transit Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
  • “Bruce Lee I Love You: Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Queer Superstardom of JJ Chinois.” National Popular Culture/American Culture Associations Conference San Diego, California

SERVICE

  • 1998-2004 Queer Ethnic Studies Working Group Coordinator Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley
  • 1998-1999 Executive Planning Committee for Queering Ethnic Studies Conference


TEACHING

  • Asian American Studies 590: Asian/American Cultural Studies
  • Gender and Women's Studies 350: Introduction to Feminist Theory
  • Gender and Women's Studies 490/Asian American Studies 490: The Politics of Fashion
  • Women's Studies 698: Transnational Subjects of Feminism in an Era of Globalization
  • Women's Studies 483: The Politics of Fashion: Gender, Modernity, and Transnationality
  • Women's Studies 253: Gender, Race, and Sex in Popular Culture
  • Women's Studies 530: Graduate Seminar on Theories of Feminism
  • Women's Studies 111: Bodies + Machines: Race, Gender, and Technology
  • Women's Studies 151: Lesbian and Gay Perspectives on Media (Queer Cultural Studies)

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