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Vietnamese

Vinh Nguyen

Vinh Nguyen

Adjunct Lecturer in Vietnamese

Office Hours: MW 3-4 PM

Office: 502F Kent Hall
Email: vqn2103@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: Harvard University
MA: Harvard University

Research Interests

Late Premodern Vietnam, Vietnamese Literature and Cultural History, Hán-Nôm Philology, Historiography, Literary Theory, Translation Studies, Gender and Queer Studies

Nguyễn Quốc Vinh was a PhD candidate at Harvard University where he has received his BA in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and MA in Regional Studies – East Asia. His areas of specialization are the Tây Sơn period in late eighteenth-century Vietnam, the transition from traditional dynastic to modern nationalist historiography, nôm literature and gender/queer studies. Under fellowships from the Fulbright Program and the Social Science Research Council, he has done dissertation research in Vietnam on a project regarding “Emperor Quang Trung Nguyễn Huệ and the Tây Sơn period (1771-1802) in the historical consciousness and commemorative practices of modern Vietnam.”

Selected Publications

“Narrative containment of the same-sex underworld in contemporary Vietnam. A critical exploration of the police presence and function in Bùi Anh Tấn’s fiction.” Cultural Studies 35:1,  44-63 (2021). 

“Cultural Ambiguity in Contemporary Vietnamese Representations of Homosexuality: A New Historicist Reading of Bùi Anh Tấn’s Fiction.” Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Vol. 10 No. 3 (Summer 2015). A revised Vietnamese version “Sự mập mờ văn hóa trong các biểu thị về đồng tính luyến ái  tại Việt Nam đương đại: Thử đọc tiểu thuyết của Bùi Anh Tấn theo chủ nghĩa Lịch Sử Mới” is published in Tiếp cận văn học châu Á từ lý thuyết phương Tây hiện đại [Asian Literatures Read through Modern Western Theories], ed. Trần Hải Yến. Hanoi: Social Sciences Publishing House, 2017.

Vietnamese edits and translations of the lectures “Thời tiền hiện đại trong văn học thế giới” [The premodern in world literature] and “Những khuôn mặt trong đám đông” [Faces in the crowd] by Stephen Owen, “Lý thuyết văn học: Từ chủ nghĩa cấu trúc đến hậu cấu trúc” [Literary theory: From structuralism to post-structuralism] by David Damrosch, “Lý thuyết chấn thương” [Trauma theory] and “Tính liên văn bản hay Cộng đồng di dân” [Intertextuality or Diaspora] by Karen Thornber, in Lý thuyết và ứng dụng lý thuyết trong nghiên cứu văn học (Tập bài giảng và tài liệu tham khảo) [Literary theories and their application (Lectures and Readings)], edited by Trần Hải Yến. Hanoi: Social Sciences Publishing House, 2016.

“Quang Trung – Nguyễn Huệ với phong trào Tây Sơn: Những di sản và bài học cho Việt Nam trong thế kỷ 20 [Emperor Quang Trung – Nguyễn Huệ and the Tây Sơn movement: Legacies and lessons for 20th-century Vietnam].”  Closing essay in Quang Trung Nguyễn Huệ: Những di sản và bài học [Quang Trung Nguyễn Huệ: Legacies and Lessons]. HCMC: Xưa & Nay and Hồng Bàng, 2012.

Translated the full English text of the bilingual book Văn bia thời Lê xứ Kinh Bắc và sự phản ánh sinh hoạt làng xã [The Stelea of the Kinh Bắc Region during the Lê period: Reflections of village life] by Phạm Thị Thùy Vinh. Tủ sách Việt Nam [Bibliothèque Vietnamienne] VIII. Hanoi: École française  d’Êxtrême-Orient, 2003.

“Confucianism in Tonkin (Northern Vietnam) at the end of the eighteenth century: dynastic fortunes and cultural capital in decline,” in Confucianism in Vietnam. HCMC: Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City Publishing House, 2002.

Phuong Chung Nguyen

Phuong Chung Nguyen

Lecturer in Vietnamese, Director the Vietnamese Language Program

Office: 502A Kent Hall
Office Hours: T 3:00-5:00
Email: cn2496@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Hanoi National University (2007)
Diploma: Teaching English as Second Language, Hanoi University (2003)
BA: English Language and Culture, Hanoi University (2000)

Classes Taught

VIET UN1101 & UN1102 First Year Vietnamese
VIET UN2201& UN2202 Second Year Vietnamese
VIET UN3301 & 3302 Third Year Vietnamese

Research Interests

Teaching Vietnamese for Special Purposes
Material Development
Testing and Assessment

Phuong Chung Nguyen served as the Vietnamese Language Coordinator for the Post Language Program at the US Embassy in Hanoi from 2008 to 2018. Before joining the Post Language Program, she was the Professional Language Coordinator at the Vietnamese Language Center, Hanoi University and taught for seven years in various Vietnamese language programs for expatriate staff at embassies, universities, and other organizations in Hanoi. She has also created language materials such as Vietnamese Vocabulary Elementary 1, Vietnamese Listening Elementary 1, Survival Vietnamese Handout Volume 1 and Volume 2, Listening and Note-taking for Advanced level, Reading Material on Economics (Intermediate), and Reading Material for RSO and PAS (Advanced level).

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