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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.

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